Third Grade:

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Third Grade Theme 1 Selection 3 Dollar and
Sense
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1-1-1 Doubling Rule

• 1 syllable word
• 1 vowel
• 1 final consonant
• Double the final consonant when adding a vowel
  suffix.
• Never double the consonants w,x, y.
• Examples
• get ing getting
• swim ing swimming
• great est greatest

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1-1-1 Doubling Rule
Base Word 1 syllable 1 vowel 1 final consonant Vowel suffix New Word
get ? ? ? ? getting
swim ? ? ? ? swimming
great ? X ? ? greatest
shop ? ? ? ? shopped
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Silent e Rule

• When 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

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Silent e Rule
Base Word Vowel Suffix New Word
use ing using
please ed pleased
leave ing leaving
strange est strangest
freeze ing freezing
include ed included
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Y Rule Part 1

• In 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 easiest
• heavy er heavier
• supply ing supplying

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Y Rule Part 1
Base 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
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
using
greatest
getting
pleased
easiest
emptied

swimming
leaving
heavier
worried
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
strangest
included
freezing
occurred
funniest
supplying

angrier
scarier
shopped
happiest
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• 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

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• 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.
• What does Zach do while driving home from yard
  sales?
• Which item did Zach buy last a golf cart or a
  basket for his friends kitties?

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Build Concept Vocabulary
The seller agreed, and Zach paid with his
allowance.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
While driving home from yard sales I add up the
retail (store) price on books I bought.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
1. Resist temptation to overspend.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
resist
retail
Advice
Places to spend
Budgeting
Sources of Money
allowance
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• 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
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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.
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• Inezs Birthday Gift
• Sequence
• Add the first thing that happens to Inez on your
  time line.
• 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.
• Visualize Inez as she carries all the items she
  picks up in the second paragraph.
• Use one or two words for each event on your time
  line.

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Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
Author Judith Viorst
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Genre Realistic Fiction

• A realistic story is made up,
• but is based on things that could actually happen.

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More Books Written by Judith Viorst
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More Books Written by Judith Viorst
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a school of higher learning
college
My father told me to put the dollar away to pay
for college.
Synonyms institute alma mater




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coins in the United States and Canada worth ten
cents
dimes
Nicholas has one dollar and two quarters and five
dimes and five nickels and thirteen pennies.

Synonyms ten cent piece change




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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 center midtown city




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made someone pay money as punishment for breaking
a law or regulation
fined
My father fined me five cents each for saying
them.

Synonyms punished docked




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coins in the United States and Canada worth five
cents
nickels
I looked in Pearsons telephone booths for
nickels and dimes that people sometimes forget.

Synonyms 5 cent piece currency change

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coins in the United States and Canada worth
twenty-five cents
quarters
Nicholas has two quarters.



Synonym 25 cent piece coin currency

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having a great deal of money
rich
And even when Im very rich, I know that pretty
soon what Ill have is bus tokens.



Synonym prosperous wealthy loaded

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Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the
Words?
college
dimes
fined
downtown
quarters
nickels

rich
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
college dimes downtown fined
nickels quarters rich
Draw! Draw! Draw!
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• Free Association
• When 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
• learning
• Science
• pencils
• Reading
• Math
• teachers
• P.E.
• Education

1. college
2. dimes
3. downtown
4. fined
5. nickels
6. quarters
7. rich
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• 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.

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Can You Find the Context Clues?
1. The police officer _________ the driver for
leaving his car in a no-parking zone.
2 A person with a lot of money is _______ but
that does not mean that he is happy.
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 didnt have a dollar bill so I gave the bus
driver four __________.
6. I traded my two _________ for ten pennies.
7.The clerk at the store didnt have any
dollar bills so she had to give me ten
________ for my one dollar change.
college dimes downtown fined nickels
quarters rich
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Synonym Search Match 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
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Word Association Challenge

1. Which word goes with traveling around the world?
   Why?

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?
Word Bank college
dimes downtown
fined nickels quarters
rich


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Tell Me What You Know

• 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?