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3rd Grade · High-Frequency Words

3rd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 2

3rd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 2 connects thought and brought through ought, contrasts caught with aught, and organizes shorter words with doubled consonants, recognizable parts, and stable written chunks.

Word list

All 12 words in this list

3rd Grade · High-Frequency Words

  • thought
  • often
  • across
  • brought
  • subject
  • already
  • above
  • also
  • below
  • caught
  • better
  • toward

12 words

What to notice when spelling these words

The words thought and brought share the ending ought. Keep that whole sequence after th in thought and after br in brought. The rhyming word caught uses aught instead, so its written family has a where the other two have o. Comparing ought with aught isolates the one vowel letter that changes.

Use parts and consonant anchors

Several spellings can be organized around recognizable parts. Toward combines to with the ending ward, and below keeps low after be. The words above and also can be held in the written chunks a-bove and al-so without pretending that every chunk is a meaningful word part.

Doubled consonants anchor two other words: across ends in cross with double s, and better has double t between its two vowel spellings. The notes focus on the stable t in often, the meaningful prefix and stable chunk in subject, and the one-l opening of already.

Notes for particular words

often

Often always keeps t between f and e, whether or not a speaker pronounces that t: o-f-t-e-n.

Pronunciation note: Both a pronounced t and a silent t are common in often; the spelling is the same in either pronunciation.

subject

Keep the meaningful prefix sub before the stable written chunk ject: sub + ject. Both uses of subject preserve those two parts.

Pronunciation note: The noun in “a school subject” is stressed at the beginning. The verb in “Do not subject it to heat” is stressed later; both are spelled s-u-b-j-e-c-t.

already

Already contains the complete word ready after the opening al. Write one l in al, then r-e-a-d-y: al + ready.