Third Grade:

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Third Grade Theme 1 Selection 1 Dollar and
Sense
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VC CV Pattern

• Vowels usually have the short sound when they are
  followed by two consonants.
• Locate the first two vowels and place a dot
  underneath the vowels.
• Underline the consonants between the vowels.
• hap pen
• win ter
• les son
• bas ket

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VC CV Word
hap pen happen
let tuce lettuce
bas ket basket
win ter winter
sis ter sister
mon ster monster
sup per supper
sub ject subject
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VC CV Word
les son lesson
spel ling spelling
nap kin napkin
col lar collar
traf fic traffic
sug gest suggest
pup pet puppet
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Challenge Words
skil let pic nic plan et sys tem pump kin
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
happen
monster
lettuce
supper
basket
subject

winter
lesson
sister
spelling
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
napkin
skillet
collar
picnic
traffic
planet

suggest
system
puppet
pumpkin
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• Teacher Read Aloud
• Prairie Town
• by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• Share what you know about the different seasons.
• How do activities change through the year?

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• Purpose Setting
• Listen for details that indicate that Prairie
  Town is an example of realistic fiction.
• Each season in a prairie town brings different
  activities, both for work and for fun.
• Do you think this story shows something that
  could have really happened?
• How would you describe this story as a
  realistic story or as a fantasy? Why?

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Build Concept Vocabulary
The town prospered amid the bounty of wheat
fields, and grain elevators dominated the skyline.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
The town and its farm neighbors are economic and
social partners.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
School is back in session, and farm children
swell the population during the day.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
economic
bounty
Business
Growth
Community Development
Residents
population
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• Comprehension Skill
• Realism and Fantasy
• A realistic story tells about something that
  could happen.
• A fantasy is a story about something that could
  never happen.
• As you read, ask yourself, Could this happen?

What happens Could this happen? This story is a _____________.

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Strategy Prior Knowledge Good
readers connect what they are reading with what
they already know. Using what you know can help
you better understand what you read. You can
judge whether a story is realistic or a fantasy.
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• Pecos Bill and the Tornado
• Realism and Fantasy
• 1. Are there things from the first two
  paragraphs that could not really happen?
• Use your prior knowledge to help you decide
  whether or not the story is realistic.
• What do you know about tornadoes? Use that to
  help you decide if this is a realistic story or a
  fantasy.

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Boom Town
Author Sonia Levitin
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Genre Historical Fiction

• Historical fiction takes place in the past.
• Made-up characters are placed in a real setting
  their actions are fictional.

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More Books Written by Sonia Levitin
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Old boomtowns of the west were built around
mining sites.  They started out as little camps
with tents. As more and more people learned about
the area that might have potential of making
prospectors rich, more people came.  With the
increase of population came the increase of
merchants and mining companies.  A general store
and other shops would be established.     
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The general store was a huge social
gathering place.  Merchants made a fortune off of
settlers.  They realized that selling tools to
miners  made huge profits.  Prices were sky-high,
almost 10 times what the merchant paid the
wholesaler. Stores and restaurants opened up
quickly as well.  Boarding houses and hotels
usually were small.
   
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having rapid growth
boom
Im building a bank, Mr. Hooper said to me.
This is getting to be a boom town.
Synonyms advance growth




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work done to earn a living
business
Youre a right smart little girl, said the
peddler, being in business like this.

Synonyms career employment livelihood




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round pieces of metal used as money
coins
Saturday night when he came home singing, coins
jangled in his pocket.
Synonyms change currency


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went and got something
fetched
But after all the water was fetched and the wash
was done, Id sit outside the cabin door with
Baby Betsy.



Synonym retrieved carried

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a room or building where clothes are washed and
ironed
laundry
What we need is a laundry for washing clothes,
said Amanda.



Synonym cleaner

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sewing that repairs a hole or tear
mending
They found they could make money mending clothes.
Synonym fixing repairing patching




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a tool with a heavy metal bar pointed at one or
both ends, having a long, wooden handle
pick
Tools such as a pick and an ax fetched a good
price.
Synonym




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a type of frying pan
skillet
I poked around in a big box of stuff and found an
old iron skillet.
Synonym frying pan




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a period of time
spell
Id like to rest a spell, he said.
Synonym bit stretch while moment




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Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the
Words?
boom
laundry
mending
business
pick
coins

skillet
fetched
spell
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
boom spell business coins skillet
fetched laundry mending pick
Draw! Draw! Draw!
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• Free Association
• When I say a word, you write down any words you
  can think of that remind you of that word.
• For example
• The word is school
• learning
• Science
• pencils
• Reading
• Math
• teachers
• P.E.
• Education

1. boom
2. spell
3. business
4. coins
5. fetched
6. laundry
7. mending
8. pick
9. skillet
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• Classifying
• Place the following words in categories
• boom spell business
• coins fetched
  laundry
• mending pick
  skillet
• Decide the names of the categories.
• Determine how many categories.
• Determine which words go in which categories.
• After classifying the words, write a paragraph
  explaining each of the categories and why
  certain words go in a particular category.

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Can You Find the Context Clues?
1. The visitors would take their clothes to the
________ to be washed..
2. Amanda saved the _________ she received for
selling her pies.
3. This is becoming a __________ town as more
people move in and open new stores.
4. Amanda decided to sit a _____________ after
she had worked all day.
5. Our family looks forward to Saturday
mornings when dad cooks bacon and eggs
in the _________________.
6. The miner used a _______________ to break
up the earth.
7. Mother was always busy ____________ the
holes in our clothes.
8. Amanda suggested to the visitor that he
should start a laundry ___________.
9. Pioneers __________________ water from the
wells and streams.
boom spell business coins fetched laundry
mending pick skillet
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Synonym Search Match the vocabulary words on the
left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some
vocabulary words have more than one synonym.
Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boom
a. career f. change k. bit p. livelihood
b. cleaner g. fixing l. retrieved q. while
c. advance h. employment m. frying pan r. currency
d. repairing i. growth n. patching
e. stretch j. carried o. moment

spell
business
coins
fetched
laundry
mending
skillet
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Word Association Challenge

1. Which word goes with a new restaurant in town?
   Why?

2. Which word goes with thread? Why?
3. Which word goes with the ground? Why?
4. Which word goes with a ball? Why?
5. Which word goes with jingling? Why?
6. Which word goes with education? Why?
7. Which word goes with eating? Why?
8. Which word goes with reading a book? Why?
9. Which word goes with drying? Why?
Word Bank boom
spell business
coins fetched laundry mending
pick skillet

Some words can be used more than once. Can you figure out which ones?

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Tell Me What You Know

• Describe a time when you witnessed a dog that
  fetched an object.
• 2. Is your area considered a boom town? Why?
• 3. Create a Tree Map of coins.
• 4. List foods that you could cook in a skillet.
• 5. Sequence how you would mend a button on a
  shirt.
• 6. What are the causes and effects of a
  successful business?.