Scott Foresman Reading Street Common Core Grade 3.1
Language 4: I can determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibility from a range of strategies. Language 6: I can acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
This week we are working on word structure and compound words.
Vocabulary Words
carpenter - someone who builds with wood
carpetmaker - a rug weaver
knowledge - having information, facts, and ideas
marketplace - a place where people buy and sell
merchant - someone who buys and sells goods
plenty - more than enough
straying - wandering away
thread - a fine twisted cord
Spelling City - Spelling & Vocabulary
Language 1: I can demonstrate the command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking. Language 2.e.: I can use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words.
Plurals -s, -es, -ies
Add -s to most words: plants. Add -es to works that end in ch, sh, or ss: inches. Change y to i and add es to most words that end with y: pennies.
Writing 3: I can write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or event using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Writing 3.a.: I can establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
A fable is a story that teaches a lesson, or moral.
Literature 2: I can recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Language 1.i.: I can produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
A sentence has a subject and a predicate. The subject is the part of the sentence that tells whom or what the sentence is about. The predicate is the sentence part that tells what the subject does. It includes the verb.