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Grade 3

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 3.C.1
  • 3.C.1.A
  • 3.C.2.A

• Language Usage

  • 3.LU.1
  • 3.LU.1.A
  • 3.LU.1.D
  • 3.LU.2
  • 3.LU.2.B
  • 3.LU.2.D

• Research

  • 3.R.1
  • 3.R.1.B
  • 3.R.1.C
  • 3.R.1.D
  • 3.R.1.E

• Reading Informational Text

  • 3.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 3.RL.1
  • 3.RL.1.B
  • 3.RL.1.C
  • 3.RL.2
  • 3.RL.2.D

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 3.RV.1
  • 3.RV.1.C
  • 3.RV.1.E
  • 3.RV.1.G

• Writing

  • 3.W.1
  • 3.W.1.B
  • 3.W.1.C
  • 3.W.1.D
  • 3.W.2
  • 3.W.2.A
  • 3.W.3
  • 3.W.3.A
  • 3.W.3.B

Virginia ELA Standard: 3.LU.2

Mechanics

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: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: LATKES

How many words can you find within LATKES?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: STUFFING

How many words are hiding inside STUFFING? More than you think.

Words Within Words: GENERAL

How many words can you find within “general”?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

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

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

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: Kid to Old (5-steps)

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

Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)

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

Word Ladders Introduction

You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.

Plurals: An Inductive Spelling Lesson

Plural nouns in English are deliciously fascinating. Yet most plural lessons are so dull! In this experience, students are given a pile of plurals and then inductively create groups and pull out rules and patterns.

Ghost

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

“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s

Let’s spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between “its” and “it’s” by asking students to write a children’s story about the adventures of a critter named It.