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Grade 3

• Communication & Collaboration

  • 3.CC
  • 3.CC.1
  • 3.CC.2
  • 3.CC.3
  • 3.CC.4
  • 3.CC.5
  • 3.CC.6
  • 3.CC.7
  • 3.CC.8

• Reading: Comprehension

  • 3.RC
  • 3.RC.1
  • 3.RC.2
  • 3.RC.3
  • 3.RC.4
  • 3.RC.5
  • 3.RC.6
  • 3.RC.7
  • 3.RC.8
  • 3.RC.9
  • 3.RC.10
  • 3.RC.11
  • 3.RC.12
  • 3.RC.13

• Reading: Foundations

  • 3.RF.1
  • 3.RF.2
  • 3.RF.3
  • 3.RF.4

• Writing

  • 3.W
  • 3.W.2
  • 3.W.2.a
  • 3.W.2.b
  • 3.W.2.c
  • 3.W.3
  • 3.W.3.a
  • 3.W.3.b
  • 3.W.3.c
  • 3.W.3.d
  • 3.W.4
  • 3.W.4.a
  • 3.W.4.b
  • 3.W.4.c
  • 3.W.4.d
  • 3.W.4.e
  • 3.W.5
  • 3.W.5.a
  • 3.W.5.b
  • 3.W.6
  • 3.W.6.a
  • 3.W.6.c
  • 3.W.6.d
  • 3.W.6.e
  • 3.W.7
  • 3.W.7.a
  • 3.W.7.b
  • 3.W.7.c
  • 3.W.7.d
  • 3.W.8
  • 3.W.8.b
  • 3.W.8.b.I
  • 3.W.8.b.II
  • 3.W.8.c
  • 3.W.8.c.I
  • 3.W.8.c.II

Indiana ELA Standard: 3.RF.1

Understand the six major syllable patterns (CVC, CVr, V, VV, VCe, Cle) to aid in decoding unknown words. (E)

Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

Words Within Words: Chocolate

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Words Within Words: PATRICK

How many words can you find within Patrick?

Words Within Words: RAINBOW

How many words can you find within rainbow?

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: LATKES

How many words can you find within LATKES?

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!

Words Within Words: GENERAL

How many words can you find within “general”?

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Word Pyramids

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: U to Brush

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

How many words can you find within airplane?

Words Within Words: LEOPARD

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

Words Within Words: SATURN

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to PLANET

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?

Word Pyramid: O to Stones

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?