Third grade vocab: Academic vocabulary words for 3rd graders

McGraw-Hill Wonders Third Grade Resources and Printouts

McGraw-Hill Wonders 3rd Grade Resources and Printouts

This is the 2014 and 2017 version.  You can find the 2020
version here.

Unit 1.1  Unit One Week One

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 1.2  Unit One Week Two

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 1.3  Unit One Week
Three

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 1. 4  Unit One Week Four

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 1.5  Unit One Week Five

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 2.1  Unit Two Week One

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 2.2  Unit Two Week Two

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 2. 3  Unit Two Week
Three

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 2.4  Unit Two Week
Four

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 2.5  Unit Two Week
Five

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 3.1 Unit Three Week One

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 3. 2 Unit Three Week Two

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 3.3 Unit Three Week Three

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 3.4 Unit Three Week
Four

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 3.5 Unit Three Week Five

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 4.1 Unit
Four Week One

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 4.2 Unit Four
Week Two

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 4.3 Unit Four
Week Three

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 4.4 Unit Four
Week Four

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 4.5 Unit Four
Week Five

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 5.1 Unit Five
Week One

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 5.2 Unit Five
Week Two

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 5.3 Unit Five
Week Three

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 5.4 Unit Five
Week Four

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 5.5 Unit Five
Week Five

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 6.1 Unit Six
Week One

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 6.2 Unit Six Week
Two

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 6.3 Unit Six
Week Three

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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night and make many mistakes.

Unit 6. 4 Unit Six
Week Four

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Unit 6.5 Unit Six
Week Five

Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources.

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Building Vocabulary Activities in A 3rd Grade Classroom

Grappling with building vocabulary activities? We focus on helping our students make inferences, predictions, and how to foreshadow. We ask them to read fiction and non-fiction.  We teach phonics, fluency, and comprehension like our lives depend on it. All of this sounds great (and really, it is!), but too many times we forget the simple stuff – actually building vocabulary.

I have always found the vocabulary to be super interesting. I’ve read studies that connect building vocabulary to improved test scores and overall intelligence. I’ve even seen some that go as far as concluding that a larger vocabulary leads to more success in life – not sure if I’m totally convinced of that yet. 🙂

In the grand scheme of things, I think it’s safe to say that we have become accustomed to teaching reading before teaching vocabulary. I really believe in order to help our students become better readers, we MUST help them build vocabulary along the way!

I have a few tips and resources I would love to share with you to help make this daunting task a little easier. Resources that include working with and learning how to dissect root words, prefixes, and suffixes – all skills involved with building vocabulary activities!

Here we go!

Activities to build vocabulary

Google Classroom Roots, Prefixes, & Suffixes

One of the very first steps to building vocabulary is to dissect words.

Of course we first have to teach what roots, prefixes, and suffixes actually are (if you don’t they may think you’re creating your own language!), but just getting students to recognize them in words and throughout their reading is a huge step!

This Google Classroom resource is super for practicing identifying those morphemes!

It offers definition practice of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, dictionary research, sorting words that either have a prefix or suffix, as well as a website to help find the meaning of those roots, prefixes, and suffixes they find!

I’ve also included short reading passages throughout the Google Slides that will allow your students to practice identifying all of those morphemes while reading. I love this part, especially, because it really proves to students just how much we come across them in our daily lives and how learning more about them will improve their comprehension!

Click here to check it out!

Root Words, Prefixes, & Suffixes Interactive Notebook

If you have a preference for paper over digital, I still have you covered!

Similar to the Google Classroom option, this interactive notebook also focuses on identifying roots, prefixes, and suffixes by sorting given words.

It really focuses on understanding the meaning of the roots, prefixes, and suffixes which is essential to building vocabulary. 

Are you one of those teachers who fall into the category of needing an idea for how to incorporate dictionary use? Seriously, it can be tough to find an activity that keeps 3rd graders engaged with a dictionary. This resource has that pesky Common Core standard covered! I have included a labeling activity that includes labeling the parts of a dictionary page – definition, entry word, guide word, part of speech, and also pronunciation!

If you prefer digital over paper, this resource can still be converted to an interactive version that students can complete on any device. The content is different from the Google Classroom resource if you’d love to have both options!

You can read more about this product here.

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Morphology Notebook

I cannot be more excited to share this resource than what I am for building vocabulary!

This morphology notebook contains 13 weeks of materials – 4 activities and 1 assessment each week.

There are 26 different morphemes addressed as well as a schedule and instructions throughout the week for how to implement each activity.

This resource is perfect for any individual work time for your students.

They’ll get to practice more dictionary use, illustration examples to help build deeper connections with root words, prefixes, and suffixes, and more sorting opportunities to help with identification.

13 weeks of practice is for sure going to build vocabulary! 🙂

Psst – if you need more dictionary activities, make sure to read the post here.

Check it out here!

You can read even more about this activity in a previous blog post- click here to read.

Using Context Clues to Dissect Words

The more and more you allow your students time to practice identifying roots, prefixes, and suffixes, the more and more they will recognize, understand, and build vocabulary.

One of the simplest ways you can do this is by really helping your students focus on using context clues while reading.

If a student comes across a word they don’t recognize, take them through a process of dissecting the word.

Every process is going to look different in each classroom, but it may be helpful to create a visual for students to utilize when they get “stuck” on a word.

Here’s an example of some questions/prompts to encourage them with:

• Have you gone back and reread?
• Does it have a root? Prefix? Or suffix?
• If yes, what does that root, prefix, or suffix mean?
• Explain what is happening in the paragraph.
• Make a hypothesis for what you think the word means.

Word Replacement Writing

Another simple way to build vocabulary is to incorporate synonyms and antonyms.

A fun activity for doing this is word replacement.

You can use any topic you’d like to for your kids to write about.

A fun one to start with could be to have your students write about their least favorite chore to do and why they don’t like doing it.

You’ll find kids are pretty passionate about writing about chores they despise!

After they’ve finished their writing, have them go back and underline all of the descriptive words they used about their chore. For example – time-consuming, terrible, smelly, boring, etc. Once they have those identified, use a thesaurus to find antonyms for those descriptive words and replace them.

A sentence that may have read, “Taking out the trash is bad.” Now may read, “Taking out the trash is marvelous.” You can always encourage your students to read their paragraphs after finishing. I can imagine you’ll get some giggles, but little do they know they’re building vocabulary along the way. 🙂

Partner Up with building vocabulary activities

2 minds are greater than 1 – especially when it comes to vocabulary! Give students a short passage to read and have each student read through it once individually. I personally love using ReadWorks to find passages (it is free with a teacher email!).

While doing so, have them write down or underline any challenging words they find along the way.

Once they’re finished reading, encourage them to discuss with their partners what words they recorded and have them go through that process that I mentioned on how to dissect words.

I love this activity because it’s so easy to differentiate. Not every pair needs the same passage. Some can be more challenging or simple! Peer collaboration is an amazing way to build vocabulary, as well as speaking and listening skills.

What did you think about these building vocabulary activities?

I can’t wait for you to try out any or all of these activities! Building vocabulary is something I am so passionate about and know that it will make your students even greater readers! What is your favorite way to help your students build vocabulary?

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Dictionary words | Material in the Russian language (3rd grade) on the topic:

Dictionary words 3 class:

Bus Raven Strawberry Kremlin back

Car Sunday engineer

Address East interesting camp

Alley in front Calendar Mad People

Alphabet Hero cabbage stairs November

Appetite city pencil Lemon lunch

Pharmacy peas shovel oats

watermelon hot potatoes Vegetables

Glagage Plant Malina Garden

Basin Girl apartment Boy Cucumber

Birch Birch Milogram Milogram Class Clothes

Library December Class Odessa Furniture

COMPLY WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH CHARTS Once0003

Bag Yellow Combine Month Monthly Walnut

Valenki animal commission Metal Osin

Sudden factory Metel Father

Everywhere tomorrow Metro Coat

Skating Milk Passenger

Together West Cow Hammer Penal

Around the Hare Cosmonaut Carrots Sand

Station here Cosmos Moroz Rooster

Sparrow Hello Zhoi Moscow Pirog

9000 2 Boxy north February

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002 scarf today Football

Victory September

Weather Lilac Hockey

Tomato Dog is good

Dishes of nightingales Thursday

then straw Feeling 9000 highway

Great glass of driver

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Wheat capital tour0003

Homeland trolley

Rossiya

Russian street

Harvest

Sugar Pupil

Pet of 90,000 dictionary work in the elementary grades

who is more richer that the richer is the richer than the teachers
active human vocabulary
more meaningful, more intelligible, smarter and more beautiful
his speech and writing. In the initial course
grammar, spelling and speech development
meaning is attached to the dictionary spelling
work in which children learn words from
unverifiable and difficult to verify
spellings given in special lists.

Unstressed vowels when in a weak position
pre-stressed and post-stressed syllables are subject to
in varying degrees of reduction – weakening
articulation of sound and change in its sound. Precisely
graphic designation of these sounds with letters and
causes the greatest
difficulties and often leads to errors.

The discrepancy between the pronunciation of sounds and
designating them in letters with letters is
essential feature of Russian orthography. “
Vocabulary work is not an episode in the teacher’s work,
but a systematic, well-organized,
pedagogically expediently constructed work,
related to all sections of the Russian course
language, it is conducted from grades 1 to 11, ”wrote
famous methodologist A.V. Tekuchev.

These words are also confirmed in the book
V. P. Kanakina “Work on difficult words in
primary school”, and in the book by GABakulina “
Intellectual development of younger schoolchildren on
Russian language lessons”, and in the articles of many
authors of the newspaper and magazine “Primary School”. At
each teacher develops his own specific
system for mastering the spelling of vocabulary words.

I want to share some of my accumulated
experience in the successful assimilation of students
spelling of vocabulary words.

Russian language program in elementary school
obligatory study of words,
whose spelling is not checked by the rules.
One of the main challenges facing us
the task is to teach the child to write these words
without mistakes. Make the learning process difficult
words more effective – the task is difficult,
requiring a lot of creative work from the teacher.

It is not enough for a student to become familiar with
grammatical meaning as such. Important
ensure that knowledge is consolidated in order to
the student could “transfer” them to other
phenomena of language encountered by him. As a result
vocabulary exercises students
acquire knowledge to such an extent that they
develop skills and abilities quickly and accurately
apply the acquired knowledge about the word in practice.

Exercise not only strengthens,
but also the knowledge of children is clarified, skills are formed
independent work, skills are strengthened
mental activity. Children continuously
have to analyze, compare,
make phrases and sentences
abstract and generalize. Through
knowledge exercises are systematized and
are automated.

In language, all sides are interconnected, and therefore
the process of teaching schoolchildren is expedient
organize in such a way that
relationship, work was carried out on phonetics,
spelling, word formation, morphology,
vocabulary and syntax so that all sides of the word
considered in unity. In this way,
conditions are created under which students
develops a multifaceted approach to the word.

As a result, one can classify
types of exercises on words with unchecked
vowels in directions, traditionally
constituting the language system.

1. Phonetic exercises.

The main meaning of phonetic exercises
is for children to learn to hear easily
sounding word, each sound separately and
position of this sound, were able to analyze
sound form of words with their internal
pronunciation. All this contributes
the formation of phonemic hearing and
speech motor skills.

A big role in the education of younger students
given to visual perception. This kind
memory is very important when getting acquainted with vocabulary
word. Therefore, it is of great importance
work on words using cards,
picture vocabulary dictations, vocabulary
dictations.

2. Spelling exercises.

The subject of special attention in Russian lessons
language is the development of orthographic
vigilance of students. To this end, children
exercises to emphasize “dangerous” places in
word, i.e. spelling, find in the texts what
“hid” the author, use this form
exercises, like writing with “holes”, i. e.
skip the letter in which you can allow
mistake, find an extra word on the other
spelling. Students also work on
editing material that contains
grammatical error.

3. Word-building exercises.

Students are very interested in working on
word composition. As a result of repetition
the morphemic composition of the word is being improved
the ability to recognize and select single-root
words, students’ understanding of
derivational role of prefixes and
suffixes, the ability to parse words according to
composition, the ability to accurately use in
written speech dictionary words with prefixes and
suffixes.

4. Morphological exercises.

Morphological exercises are aimed at
students’ awareness of the morphological structure
Russian language.

When studying parts of speech, various types of
practical exercises help to unite
separate words into certain groups;
distinguish and define the forms of parts of speech:
declension, case, tense, person, number, in order to
to consciously use words with
unchecked spelling in oral and written
speech in the correct form.

5. Syntactic exercises.

Syntactic exercises put before themselves
the task of consolidating the theoretical information
which children received by syntax show
for schoolchildren the role of language units in speech, in communication
between people, help to understand the structure
uncomplicated in their construction and composition
phrases and sentences, deliberately
form phrases and sentences.

6. Lexical exercises.

A child who comes to school to study already knows how to
talk. But his verbal arsenal is not enough
to express new thoughts, concepts, feelings,
which he receives at school from the first days
learning. First of all, he lacks words for
this. Our task is to activate
children’s dictionary.

In connection with the study of grammar,
lexical exercises, i.e. children explain
word meanings, both direct and figurative,
understand the meanings of words
relationship between synonyms and antonyms
make up phrases and sentences with them.

In conclusion, I would like to note that on
based on personal experience use
a variety of methods, techniques, forms and means
learning to work on difficult words
children’s activity is activated,
interest in mastering the riches of the native language,
attention to the word is brought up, enriched
vocabulary.

I want to offer cards with
differentiated study tasks
spelling vocabulary words in grades 2-3, work
which contributes to fast and durable
assimilation of unverifiable spellings, due to
how to develop good writing skills
words that students encounter in
oral as well as in writing.

For easier memorization by students
spellings of words with unchecked spellings,
vocabulary of each class was divided into
thematic blocks. With every block children
work for 6-10 lessons, performing various
exercises through which their knowledge
are systematized and automated

For example, in the second grade, a block was allocated
“Animals”, which included the following words: cow,
bear, fox, dog, hare third grade
words: garden, vegetable, potato, cucumber, tomato,
carrots were merged into the “Garden” block.

I will give examples of differentiated tasks,
that I use when students learn words from
block data.

Grade 2

Phonetic exercises.

Level 1.

Write down the words, fill in the missing letters, put
accent sign.

Level 2.

Write the words, dividing them into syllables. Insert
missing letters, put an accent mark.

Za_ts, l_sitsa, m_dved, from_tank, k_rov.

Level 3.

Write the words in alphabetical order, separating them
into syllables. Insert the missing letters, put a sign
accents.

Spelling exercises.

Level 1.

Write out the words with unchecked vowels.
Underline the unstressed vowel, put the stress. Color_current,
l_sitsa, v_yes, k_rova, m two, m_dok, s yats, sv_rek,
from_tank..