Third Grade: Theme 1

Selection 3Dollar and Sense

1-1-1 Doubling Rule•1 syllable word•1 vowel•1 final consonantDouble the final consonant when adding a vowel suffix.Never double the consonants: w,x, & y.Examples:

get + ing = gettingswim + ing = swimminggreat + est = greatest

1-1-1 Doubling RuleBase Word

1 syllable

1 vowel

1 final

consonant

Vowel

suffix

NewWord

get ● ● ● ● getting

swim ● ● ● ● swimming

great ● X ● ● greatest

shop ● ● ● ● shopped

Silent e RuleWhen adding a vowel suffix to a base word that ends with e:•Usually drop the e before adding the vowel suffix•Vowel suffixes begin with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u,y)

Examples:

use + ing = using leave + ing = leaving include + ed = included

Silent e RuleBase Word Vowel

SuffixNew Word

use + ing = using

please + ed = pleased

leave + ing = leaving

strange + est = strangest

freeze + ing = freezing

include + ed = included

Y Rule: Part 1In a word that ends with a consonant + y:

•Change the y to i before adding a suffix•Never drop the y when adding a suffix that begins with i

Examples:

easy + est = easiestheavy + er = heaviersupply + ing = supplying

Y Rule: Part 1Base Word ending in Consonant + y

Suffix = New Word

easy est = easiest

heavy er = heavier

empty ed = emptied

worry ed = worried

funny est = funniest

angry er = angrier

scary er = scarier

happy est = happiest

supply ing = supplying

Spelling FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

using

emptied

greatest

easiest

getting pleased

leavingswimming

heavier worried

Spelling FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

strangest

supplying

included

funniest

freezing occurred

scarierangrier

shopped happiest

Zach the Yard-Sale Whiz

Activate Prior Knowledge:•Share a time when you attended a yard sale•Share a time when your family had a yard sale

Purpose Setting:From hearing the title of the story, set your own

purpose for listening.

Zach loves to shop at yard sales. He is careful about spending his money, and he offers some good tips for yard-sale shoppers.

1.What does Zach do while driving home from yard sales?2.Which item did Zach buy last: a golf cart or a basket for his friend’s kitties?

Build Concept Vocabulary

The seller agreed, and Zach paid with his allowance.

Build Concept Vocabulary

While driving home from yard sales I add up the retail (store) price on books I bought.

Build Concept Vocabulary

1. Resist temptation to overspend.

Build Concept Vocabulary

Budgeting

Advice

Sources of Money

resist

allowance

Places to spend

retail

Comprehension Skill:Sequence

•Sequence is the order in which things happen in a story. As you read, pay attention to what happens first, next, and last.•Sometimes a writer uses clue words like first, next, and finally.

First Event Next Event

Second Event Last Event

Strategy:Visualize

Active readers make pictures in their minds as they read a story. As you read, picture in your mind the characters and what is happening. That will help you keep track of the sequence of events.

Inez’s Birthday GiftSequence

1.Add the first thing that happens to Inez on your time line. 2.The clue words the next day in the second paragraph make it clear that the events in this paragraph happen after the events of the first paragraph.3.Visualize Inez as she carries all the items she picks up in the second paragraph.4.Use one or two words for each event on your time line.

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Author: Judith Viorst

Genre: Realistic Fiction

A realistic story is “made up,”

but is based on things that could actually happen.

More Books Written by Judith Viorst

More Books Written by Judith Viorst

college

Synonyms:institutealma mater

My father told me to put the dollar away to pay for college.

a school of higher learning

dimes

Nicholas has one dollar and two quarters and five dimes and five nickels and thirteen pennies.

Synonyms:ten cent piecechange

coins in the United States and Canada worth ten cents

the main part of business part of a town or city

downtown

Anthony told me to use the dollar to go downtown to a store and buy a new face.

Synonyms:centermidtowncity

fined

My father fined me five cents each for saying them.

Synonyms:punisheddocked

made someone pay money as punishment for breaking a law or regulation

coins in the United States and Canada worth five cents

nickels

I looked in Pearson’s telephone booths for nickels and dimes that people sometimes forget.

Synonyms:5 cent piececurrencychange

coins in the United States and Canada worth twenty-five cents

Nicholas has two quarters.

quarters

Synonym:25 cent piececoincurrency

having a great deal of money

And even when I’m very rich, I know that pretty soon what I’ll have is …bus tokens.

rich

Synonym:prosperouswealthyloaded

Vocabulary FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

college

nickels

dimes

downtown

quarters

fined

rich

college dimes downtown fined

nickels quarters rich

Draw! Draw! Draw!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!

Free AssociationWhen 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:

1. learning 2. Science 3. pencils 4. Reading 5. Math 6. teachers 7. P.E. 8. Education

1. college2. dimes3. downtown4. fined5. nickels6. quarters7. rich

Classifying

Place the following words in categories: college dimes downtown fined nickels quarters rich

• 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.

3. Students who dream of going to ________ better plan ahead by studying hard in school.

4. There are many businesses ______________so the city is crowded during the workday.

5. I didn’t have a dollar bill so I gave the bus driver four __________.

6. I traded my two _________ for ten pennies.

2 A person with a lot of money is _______ but that does not mean that he is happy.

7.The clerk at the store didn’t have any dollar bills so she had to give me ten ________ for my one dollar change.

1. The police officer _________ the driver for leaving his car in a no-parking zone.

college; dimes; downtown; fined;

nickels; quarters; rich

Can You Find the Context Clues?

Synonym SearchMatch the vocabulary words on the left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some vocabulary words have more than one synonym. Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a. currency f. institute k. money

b. prosperous g. 25-cent piece l. 5-cent piece

c. punished h. change m. docked

d. 10-cent piece i. wealthy n. alma mater

e. loaded j. ticket o. city

college

dimes

downtown

fined

nickels

quarters

rich

Word Association Challenge1. Which word goes with traveling around the world? Why?

Word Bankcollege dimes downtown finednickels quarters rich

2. Which word goes with President Franklin D. Roosevelt? Why?

3. Which word goes with getting a speeding ticket? Why?

4. Which word goes with the future? Why?

5. Which word goes with George Washington? Why?

6. Which word goes with Thomas Jefferson? Why?

7. Which word goes with sky scrapers? Why?

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

1. Create a word problem that contains quarters, nickels, and dimes.

2. Is college in your future? Explain

3. List the stores that are located downtown in your area.

4. What steps can you take so that you will not get fined?

5. If you work hard and save your money, you could become rich. What would you do with your money?

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