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Third Grade Year Overview


week	Phonics Word Families	Vocabulary	Reading Comprehension Strategies & Skills	Language and Writing	Main Text	Math	Social Studies	Science
Week 1	none	none	none	• Writing Your Name • Introducing Yourself • Following Directions	Teacher’s Choice	Classroom Rules and Expectations	Classroom Rules and Expectations	Classroom Rules and Expectations
Week 2	Short Vowels: VC/CV	bat, battery, plug, blew, fuel, term, vision	• Character, Setting, and Theme • Background Knowledge	• Simple Sentences • Giving a News Report • Word Choice and Sensory Details	When Charlie McButton Lost Power	Introduction to Multiplication	Community Rules	Talking Like A Scientist
Week 3	Plurals -s, -es, -ies	carpenter, thread, carpetmaker, plenty, knowledge, marketplace, merchant, straying	• Sequence • Summarize	• Nouns (Places) • Follow Instructions	What About Me?	Introduction to Division	Meeting Our Needs and Wants	Acting Like a Scientist
Week 4	Endings -ed, -ing, -er, -est	gear, parka, willow, splendid, twitch, yanked	• Sequence • Visualize	• Declarative and Interrogative Sentences • Telling a Story • Organization: Headings	Kumak’s Fish	Multiplication Facts: Using Patterns	Producers and Consumers	Describing Weather
Week 5	Long Vowel Digraphs ee, ea; ai, ay; oa, ow	laundry, section, shelves, spoiled, store, thousands, treaded, variety	• Compare and Contrast • Background Knowledge	• Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences • Panel Discussion • Voice: Showing Personality	Supermarket	Multiplication Facts: Using Patterns	Exchanging Goods and Services	Collecting Weather Data
Week 6	Vowel Diphthongs ou, ow; oi, oy	arranged, bundles, unwrapped, dangerously, errands, excitedly, steady, wobbled	• Author’s Purpose • Story Structure	• Compound Sentences • Giving an Oral Book Report • Using Different Kinds of Sentences	My Rows and Piles of Coins	Additional Multiplication Facts	Spending and Saving	Different Climates
Week 7	Review	Review	Review	Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Additional Multiplication Facts	Many Different Jobs	Local Weather Hazard
Week 8	Syllable Patterns V/CV, VC/V	hatch, pecks, preen, cuddles, flippers, frozen, snuggles	• Main Idea and Details • Monitor and Clarify	• Common & Proper Nouns • Informational Speech • Figurative Language	Penguin Chick	Division Facts	Our Democracy	Weather and Climate Review
Week 9	Final Syllable -le	adorable, iguana, trophies, compassionate, exactly, mature, mention	• Compare and Contrast • Visualize	• Singular & Plural Nouns • Vivid Verbs • Persuasive Speech	I Wanna Iguana	Division Facts	Branches of Government	Defining Motion
Week 10	Compound Words	butterflies, collection, shoelaces, enormous, scattered, strain	• Draw Conclusions • Questioning	• Irregular Plural Nouns • Presentation • Clear Writing Purpose	Prudy’s Problem	Fluently Multiply and Divide within 100	Levels of Government	Gravity
Week 11	Consonant Blends squ, spl, thr, str	bottom, crops, partners, cheated, clever, lazy, wealth	• Author’s Purpose • Predict and Set Purpose	• Singular Possessive Nouns • Interview • Conventions: Salutations	Tops & Bottoms	Fluently Multiply and Divide within 100	Good Citizens, Good Deeds	Investigating Motion
Week 12	Consonant Digraphs sh, th, ph, ch, ng	bill, goo, tons, hunters, material, platform, twigs	• Main Idea and Details • Text Structure	• Plural Possessive Nouns • Paragraphs • Descriptions	Amazing Bird Nests	Fluently Multiply and Divide within 100	Taking Action for Our Rights	Forces and Motion Review
Week 13	Review	Review	• Review	• Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Area, Multiplication, and Addition	Taking Action for a Cause	Energy Introduction
Week 14	Contractions	area, grapevine, raisin, artificial, preservative, proof, raise	• Draw Conclusions • Important Ideas	• Action and Linking Verbs • Persuading • Voice	How Do You Raise a Raisin	Area, Multiplication, and Addition	Review	Light, Heat, and Sound
Week 15	Prefixes un-, re-, mis-, dis-, non-	antlers, languages, poked, imagined, narrator, overhead	• Character, Setting, and Plot • Inferring	• Main and Helping Verbs • Dramatization • Sentence Variation	Pushing Up the Sky	Represent and Interpret Data	New Ways to Travel	Electrical Energy
Week 16	Spelling soft g, soft c, ck	ladle, patterns, temperature, dim, gas, gigantic, shine	• Graphic Sources • Text Structure	• Subject and Verb Agreement • Giving Important Info • Commas and Capitalization	Seeing Stars	Represent and Interpret Data	A New Home in America	Magnets
Week 17	Suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, -less, -able, -ible	bay, blizzards, surrounded, anxiously, melody, channel, supplies, chipped, symphony	• Generalize • Story Structure	• Past, Present, Future Verb Tenses • Description • Writing Clearly	A Symphony of Whales	Use Strategies and Properties to Add and Subtract	New Ways to Communicate	Solve a Problem with Magnets
Week 18	Consonant Patterns wr, kn, gn, st, mb	search, stinging, survivors, incredible, topic, lofty, unseen, noble, waterless	• Cause and Effect • Predict and Set Purpose	• Irregular Verbs • Oral Report • Word Choice	Around One Cactus	Use Strategies and Properties to Add and Subtract	New Ideas	Energy and Its Forms Review
Week 19	Review	Review	• Review	• Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Fluently Add and Subtract within 1000	Land and Water	Classifying Plants
Week 20	Irregular Plurals	basketball, freeze, guard, disease, popular, sports, study, terrible	• Generalize • Summarize	• Singular & Plural Pronouns • Presentation • Conjunctions	The Man Who Invented Basketball	Fluently Add and Subtract within 1000	Weather and Climate	A Plant’s Life Cycle
Week 21	r-Controlled Vowels	erupted, outrun, tides, average, depth, deserts, peak, waterfalls	• Graphic Sources • Important Ideas	• Subject & Object Pronoun • Making an Announcement • Complex Sentences	Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest	Multiply by Multiples of 10	Using Earth’s Resources	A Plant’s Life Cycle
Week 22	Prefixes pre-, mid-, over-, out-, bi-, de-	chores, labeled, stamps, attic, board, customer, spare	• Fact and Opinion • Inferring	• Possessive Pronouns • Using Formal Language • Combining Sentences	Rocks in His Head	Solving Word Problems	Interacting with the Environment	Plants Review
Week 23	Suffixes -er, -or, -ess, -ist	celebrate, current, medals, continued, drowned, stirred, strokes	• Fact and Opinion • Questioning	• Contractions • Describing Actions • Subheadings	America’s Champion Swimmer	Solving Word Problems	Review	Classifying Animals
Week 24	Syllable Pattern VCCCV	gully, reeds, valley, clutched, echoed, scrambled, thatch	• Cause and Effect • Monitor and Clarify	• Prepositions • Book Review • Time-Order Transition Words	Fly, Eagle, Fly!	Understanding Fractions	People and Cultures	Animal Traits
Week 25	Review	Review	• Review	• Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Understanding Fractions	Culture Through the Arts	An Animal’s Life Cycle
Week 26	Syllable Patterns CV/VC	festival, handkerchief, snug, cotton, graceful, paces, pale, rhythm	• Compare and Contrast • Visualize	• Adjectives and Articles • Introductions • Supporting Details	Suki’s Kimono	Understanding Fractions	Cultural Celebrations	Animals Review
Week 27	Homophones	bouquet, circus, pier, difficult, nibbling, soars, swallow	• Main Idea and Details • Inferring	• Comparative & Superlative Adjectives • Dramatization • Consistent Verb Tense	I Love Saturdays y domingos	Fraction Equivalence and Comparison	Our Nation’s Diversity	Living and Nonliving
Week 28	Vowel Patterns a, au, aw, al, augh, ough	airport, delicious, raindrops, cellar, curious, described, farewell, homesick, memories	• Sequence • Monitor and Clarify	• Adverbs • Song or Poem • Figurative Language	Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong	Fraction Equivalence and Comparison	What Makes A Community?	Energy Through an Ecosystem
Week 29	Long a, e, i Spelled ei or eigh	bakery, batch, dough, boils, braided, ingredients, mixture	• Draw Conclusions • Summarize	• Comparative & Superlative Adverbs • Persuasion • Write Clearly	Jalapeño Bagels	Fraction Equivalence and Comparison	Types of Community?	Traits and Ecosystems
Week 30	Suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, -ment	cardboard, feast, treasure, fierce, flights, pitcher, ruined, stoops	• Author’s Purpose • Background Knowledge	• Conjunctions • Retelling • Proofreading	Me and Uncle Romie	Time	Three Types of Community	Organisms and the Environment Review
Week 31	Review	Review	• Review	• Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Capacity	America’s First People	Ecosystem Changes
Week 32	Vowels Sounds in moon and foot	crown, liberty, torch, models, symbol, tablet, unforgettable, unveiled	• Fact and Opinion • Questioning	• Capital Letters • Giving Information • Paraphrase	The Story of the Statue of Liberty	Mass	Early Explorers	Fossils
Week 33	Schwa	foreign, narrow, recipe, bows, chilly, foolish, perches	• Cause and Effect • Inferring	• Abbreviations • Express an Opinion • Organization	Happy Birthday Mr. Kang	Perimeter	Early Spanish Communities	Environmental Problems
Week 34	Final Syllables -tion, -ion, -ture, -ive, -ize	encourages, expression, native, local, settled, social, support	• Graphic Sources • Important Ideas	• Combining Sentences • Talk Show • Sensory Details	Talking Walls	Solving Perimeter Problems	Early French Communities	Understand Change in Environments Review
Week 35	Prefixes im-, in-	crystal, discovery, scoop, disappeared, goal, journey, joyful, unaware	• Plot and Theme • Story Structure	• Commas • Description • Dialogue	Two Bad Ants	Attributes of 2D Shapes	Early English Communities	Engineering and Design
Week 36	Related Words	aqueducts, crouched, pillar, content, guidance, honor, thermal	• Generalize • Inferring	• Quotations and Parentheses • Song • Choosing Adjectives	Atlantis	Attributes of 2D Shapes	Creating a New Nation	Engineering and Design
Week 37	Review	Review	• Review	• Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Review	Review	Review
Week 38	Review	Review	• Review	• Review	Teacher’s Choice Review	Review	Review	Review