Making Words Third Grade: 70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones, 1st edition
Published by Pearson (December 27th 2007) - Copyright © 2009
1st edition
Overview
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!
Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.
In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.
Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!
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Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills.
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Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences.
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Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
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Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
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Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.
Table of contents
Introduction
Lesson 1 shopping
Lesson focus: spelling change: double the p when adding ing
Lesson 2 tripped
Lesson focus: spelling change: double the p when adding ed
homophones tied, tide
Lesson 3 scrubbing
Lesson focus spelling change: double the b when adding ing
Lesson 4 branches
Lesson focus: spelling change: es is added when words end in ch
Lesson 5 crashes
Lesson focus: spelling change: es is added when words end in sh or ch
Lesson 6 shoppers
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: double the p when adding er
Lesson 7 gardeners
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: drop final e when adding er
homophones: dear, deer
Lesson 8 planners
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: double the n when adding er
Lesson 9 beginners
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: double the n when adding er
homophones: be, bee; in, inn
Lesson 10 collectors
Lesson focus: suffix or meaning person or thing that does something
suffixes er, est meaning more and most
homophones: cell, sell; role roll
Lesson 11 instructor
Lesson focus: suffix or meaning person or thing that does something
suffix ist meaning person or thing that does something
homophones: sun, son
Lesson 12 directors
Lesson focus: suffix or meaning person or thing that does something
Lesson 13 maddest
Lesson focus: suffix est meaning most
spelling change: double the d when adding est
homophones: ad, add
Lesson 14 brightest
Lesson focus: suffixes er, est meaning more and most
suffix er, meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: double the t when adding er
homophones: site, sight
Lesson 15 stronger
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning more
Lesson 16 disagreed
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning more
prefix dis meaning opposite
homophones: dear, deer
Lesson 17 discovery
Lesson focus: prefix dis
suffix er, meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: change the y to i and add es or ed
spelling change: drop the e when adding er
Lesson 18 security
Lesson focus: suffix y
spelling change: change the y to i and add es
Lesson 19 funniest
Lesson focus: suffix est meaning most
spelling change: change y to i when adding est
prefix un meaning opposite
Lesson 20 unhappier
Lesson focus: prefix un meaning not
suffix er meaning more
suffix en
spelling change: change the y to i when adding er
spelling change: drop the e when adding en
homophones: pear, pair; pane, pain; rein, rain
Lesson 21 forgotten
Lesson focus: suffix en
spelling change: double the t when adding en
homophones: to, too
Lesson 22 clothes
Lesson focus: homophones: close, clothes
Lesson 23 everything
Lesson focus: suffix er, meaning person or thing that does something
suffix en
spelling change: drop the e when adding er or en
homophones: their, there
Lesson 24 airplanes
Lesson focus: homophones: pail, pale; sail, sale; pain, pane; rain, rein;
pair, pear; plane, plane
Lesson 25 breakfast
Lesson focus: suffix er, meaning person or thing that does something
suffix er, meaning more
spelling change: drop the e when adding er
homophones: bare, bear; break, brake; stake, steak
Lesson 26 couldn’t
Lesson focus: prefix un meaning opposite
contractions: don’t, couldn’t
Lesson 27 shouldn’t
Lesson focus: prefix un meaning opposite
contractions don’t, shouldn’t
homophones: sun, son
Lesson 28 wouldn’t
Lesson focus: prefix un meaning opposite
contractions: won’t, wouldn’t
Lesson 29 countdown
Lesson focus: homophones: to, two, too; wood, would
Lesson 30 powerful
Lesson focus: suffix ful
homophones: for, four; flour, flower
Lesson 31 wonderful
Lesson focus: suffix ful
suffix er, meaning person or thing that does something
prefix un meaning opposite
homophones: won, one; flour, flower
Lesson 32 carefully
Lesson focus: suffixes ful, ly, y
prefix re meaning back
Lesson 33 thankless
Lesson focus: suffixes en, less
spelling change: drop final e when adding en
Lesson 34 carelessly
Lesson focus: suffixes less, ly, y
prefix re meaning back
spelling change: drop final e when adding y
Lesson 35 paperweight
Lesson focus: homophones: ate, eight; rap, wrap; right, write; wait, weight
Lesson 36 vacations
Lesson focus: suffix tion
Lesson 37 connections
Lesson focus: suffixes tion, est
homophones: sent, cent, scent
Lesson 38 expression
Lesson focus: suffixes sion, en, er, ness
prefix re meaning again
spelling change: es is added when words end in x
Lesson 39 returning
Lesson focus suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: double the n when adding er
prefix re meaning back or again
prefix un meaning opposite
Lesson 40 rewriting
Lesson focus prefix re meaning again
suffix er, meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: drop the e when adding er or ing
Lesson 41 knowledge
Lesson focus: suffix en
homophones no, know; new, knew
Lesson 42 blueberry
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
suffix y
spelling change: drop final e when adding er
homophones: by, buy; bury, berry
Lesson 43 creatures
Lesson focus: suffixes ure, er
spelling change: drop final e when adding er, ure
Lesson 44 departure
Lesson focus: suffixes ure, er
spelling change: drop final e when adding er, ure
prefix re meaning again
homophones: deer, dear
Lesson 45 pleasure
Lesson focus: suffix ure
spelling change: drop final e when adding ure
prefix re meaning back
Lesson 46 acceptable
Lesson focus: suffix able
homophones: be, bee; beet, beat
Lesson 47 exceptions
Lesson focus: suffix tion
homophones: except, accept (from previous lesson)
Lesson 48 whatever
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
prefix re meaning back
homophones: hear, here
Lesson 49 whether
Lesson focus: homophones: we, wee; whether, weather
Lesson 50 throughout
Lesson focus: homophones: our, hour; through, threw
Lesson 51 mailboxes
Lesson focus: spelling change: es is added when words end in x
homophones: mail, male; sail, sale
Lesson 52 government
Lesson focus: suffixes er, ment
spelling change: drop final e when adding er
prefix re meaning back
Lesson 53 measurement
Lesson focus: suffixes ment, est
prefix re meaning again
homophones: meat, meet
Lesson 54 dangerous
Lesson focus: suffix ous
Homophones: rode, road
Lesson 55 mountainous
Lesson focus: suffix ous
Lesson 56 personal
Lesson focus: suffix al
homophones: sore, soar
Lesson 57 electrical
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning more
suffix al
prefix re meaning back or again
spelling change: drop final e when adding er
Lesson 58 sensible
Lesson focus: suffixes en, ible
homophones: be, bee
Lesson 59 impossible
Lesson focus: prefix im meaning opposite
Lesson 60 incomplete
Lesson focus: suffix tion
prefix in meaning opposite
Lesson 61 weakness
Lesson focus: suffixes ness, en
spelling change: drop final e when adding en
homophones: see, sea; new, knew; weak, week
Lesson 62 unhappiness
Lesson focus: suffix ness
spelling change: es is added when words end in sh
spelling change: change the y to i and add ness
prefix un meaning opposite
Lesson 63 unworkable
Lesson focus: suffixes: en, able
spelling change: drop final e when adding en
prefix un meaning opposite
homophones: no, know; new, knew
Lesson 64 appreciate
Lesson focus: homophones piece, peace
Lesson 65 wheelbarrows
Lesson focus: prefix re meaning again
homophones: : war, wore; sore, soar; wear, where; hole, whole
Lesson 66 dishwasher
Lesson focus: spelling change: es is added when words end in sh
homophones herd, heard
Lesson 67 vegetables
Lesson focus: homophones: be, bee; see, sea; beats, beets
Lesson 68 rollerblade
Lesson focus: homophones: role, roll; road, rode; board, bored
Lesson 69 horseback
Lesson focus: suffix er meaning person or thing that does something
spelling change: drop final e when adding er
homophones break, brake
Lesson 70 birdhouses
Lesson focus: spelling change: es is added when words end in sh
homophones our, hour
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Reproducible Take Home Sheet
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