Third Grade:

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Third Grade Theme 1 Selection 4 Dollar and
Sense
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Sound/Spellings for a (Digraphs are two letters
that come together and make one sound)

• ai /a/ usually comes at the beginning or middle
  of a word or syllable
• ay /a/ usually comes at the end of a word or
  syllable

ai ay
grain display
braid Sunday
entertain
complain
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Sound/Spellings for e (Digraphs are two letters
that come together and make one sound)

• ee /e/
• ea /e/

ee ea
agree clean
teeth dream
cheese peach
bleachers wheat
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Sound/Spellings for o (Digraphs are two letters
that come together and make one sound)

• oa /o/
• ow /o/

oa ow
coach window
float shadow
thrown
willow
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
clean
entertain
agree
complain
teeth
bleachers

float
willow
thrown
wheat
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
peach
included
braid
occurred
Sunday
supplying

angrier
scarier
shopped
happiest
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• Where Do You Keep Your Money?
• By Gail Karlitz
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• Think about what you do with the money you earn
  or are given.
• Share how you save your money.

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• Purpose Setting
• As you listen, ask yourself, What is the author
  trying to teach me?
• Usually, as time passes, everything costs more
  money to buy. This decreases how much money is
  worth, so it doesnt make sense to leave money
  sitting around your house for a long time.
• Is Where Do You Keep Your Money? more like a
  realistic story or a fantasy? Why?
• Why do you think authors who write realistic
  stories often choose to include events that did
  not really happen?

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Build Concept Vocabulary
INFLATION the general increase in the cost of
everything, from cars and houses to burgers and
fries
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Build Concept Vocabulary
In 1960, the average income per person in this
country was 2,219 per year! By 2000, the average
income per person was 29, 676.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
Our government does print money in higher
denominations than hundred-dollar bills, but
those bills are not used by the general public.
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Build Concept Vocabulary
denominations
inflation
Money
Problems
Saving
Helps
income
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• Comprehension Skill
• Realism and Fantasy
• A realistic story tells about something that
  could happen.
• A fantasy story could never happen.
• Some stories are mostly realistic, but they may
  include events that are fantasy.
• As you read, ask yourself, Could this really
  happen?

Whats Real? Whats Not?


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Strategy Monitor and Fix Up Active
readers check that they understand what they are
reading. If not, they will do something about
it. If you arent sure that what you are reading
is totally realistic, you can reread parts.
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• How Many Pennies?
• Realism and Fantasy
• After reading the first paragraph, ask yourself,
  Could this really happen?
• After reading the second paragraph, if you are
  not sure about what you have just read, this
  would be a good spot to stop and reread.
• Share how you may have changed your opinion of
  whether the story was realistic or fantastic as
  you continue to read.
• How would you use the Monitor and Fix Up strategy
  to determine that the story is a fantasy?

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If You Made A Million
Author David M. Schwartz
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Genre Nonfiction

• Nonfiction explains something that could actually
  happen in real life.
• Nonfiction gives facts and information.

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More Books Written by David M. Schwartz
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the total sum
amount
One quarter is the same amount of money as five
nickels.
Synonyms total sum




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a written order directing a bank to pay money to
the person named
check

If you dont like the idea of carrying a thousand
dollars around with you, you can put it in the
bank and pay for the hippo with a check.
Synonyms




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got money in return for work or service
earned
Youve worked long and hard, and youve earned a
thousand dollars!

Synonyms acquired collected



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costing a lot of money
expensive

If you have some very expensive plans, you may
have to take on a tough job that pays well.

Synonyms costly extravagant


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the money paid for the use of someone elses money
interest
The bank wants to use your money, and it will pay
you five cents to leave your dollar there for a
year. The extra five cents is called interest.

Synonyms earnings profit

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One thousand thousands 1,000,000
million
A million one-dollar bills would weigh 2,500
pounds and stack up to 360 feet.



Synonym

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ten hundreds 1,000
thousand
If you dont like the idea of carrying a thousand
dollars around with you, you can put it in the
bank.



Synonym

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the real worth of something in money
value
My gold necklace has increased in value .



Synonym financial worth

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equal in value to
worth
One nickel is worth the same as five pennies.



Synonym equivalence

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Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the
Words?
amount
interest
million
check
thousand
earned

expensive
value
worth
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
amount check earned expensive worth
interest million thousand value
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. amount
2. check
3. earned
4. expensive
5. interest
6. million
7. thousand
8. value
9. worth
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• Classifying
• Place the following words in categories
• amount check
  earned
• expensive interest million
• thousand value
  worth
• 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. Bob felt that a dog was _________ all the
hard work he did.
2. After getting his dog Bob knew the _________
of hard work.
3. Bob had to earn more money because the dog was
very ___________.
4. Bob kept his money in the bank so it could
earn one dollar in __________.
5. Bob had money he had gotten for his
birthday but that __________ was not
enough to buy the dog.
6. The owner of the pet store received a
___________ from Bob written for the
amount that the dog cost
7. I saw a one and six zeros so I knew that
the check was written for a ___________
dollars.
8. I had ten one hundred dollar bills so I
knew I had a __________ dollars.
amount check earned expensive interest
million thousand value worth
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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. acquired f. extravagant
b. costly g. total
c. earnings h. equivalence
d. sum i. profit
e. financial worth j. collected
amount
earned
expensive
interest
value
worth
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Word Association Challenge

1. Which word goes with a mansion? Why?

2. Which word goes with President Grover
Cleveland? Why?
3. Which word goes with black or blue ink? Why?
4. Which word goes with working? Why?
5. Which word goes with growing? Why?
6. Which word goes with buying a home? Why?
7. Which word goes with 5 nickels or 1 quarter?
Why?
8. Which word goes with adding? Why?
9. Which word goes with 1000 X 1000? Why?
Some words can be used more than once. Can you figure out which ones?
Word Bank amount
check earned
expensive interest million
thousand value worth


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Tell Me What You Know

• Describe a time when you earned money. How did
  it make you feel?
• 2. List items that are expensive.
• 3. Explain how you can earn interest on your
  money?
• 4. How do you determine the amount of your bill
  when eating at a restaurant?
• 5. Compare and contrast a million and a thousand?