Unit 3
Reading Street Unit 3 Stories
Week 1: The Man Who Named The Clouds
The Man Who Named the Clouds is biography about the man who came up with our system of naming clouds.
We will learn about graphic sources and important ideas.
Week 3: How Night Came from the Sea
How Night Came from the Sea is a myth about how night came to be.
We will learn about generalizations and visualizing.
Week 2: Adelina's Whales
Adelina's Whales is an expository text about the migration of whales.
We will learn about fact and opinion and text structure.
Week 4: Eye of the Storm
Eye of the storm is an expository text about the life of storm chasers.
We will be learning about cause and effect as well as predicting and setting purpose.
Week 5: Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan is a tall tale story that many of you will be familiar with.
We will be learning about generalizing and inferring.
Reading Street Unit 3 Spelling
Spelling Words for
Unit 3 Week 1
When adding -ed and -ing, the spelling of the base word sometimes changes: dancing, dried, stopped. Some base words are not changed: drying, watched.
1. watched
2. watching
3. danced
4. dancing
5. studied
6. studying
7. stopped
8. stopping
9. dried
10. drying
11. happened
12. happening
13. noticed
14. noticing
15. robbed
16. robbing
17. slipped
18. slipping
19. hurried
20. hurrying
Spelling Words for
Unit 3 Week 2
A homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another word but has a different spelling and meaning: piece, peace.
1. two
2. to
3. too
4. piece
5. peace
6. break
7. brake
8. there
9. their
10. they’re
11. threw
12. through
13. by
14. bye
15. beat
16. beet
17. thrown
18. throne
19. aloud
20. allowed
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Spelling Words for
Unit 3 Week 3
The vowel sound in shout can be spelled ou or ow: couch, towel.
1. however
2. mountain
3. mound
4. scout
5. shout
6. couch
7. towel
8. ounce
9. coward
10. outdoors
11. flowerpot
12. scowl
13. browse
14. announce
15. hound
16. trout
17. drowsy
18. grouch
19. eyebrow
20. boundary
Spelling Words for
Unit 3 Week 4
A compound word is made of two or more words. Keep all the letters when spelling compounds: shoelace.
1. watermelon
2. homemade
3. understand
4. sometimes
5. shoelace
6. highway
7. upstairs
8. thunderstorm
9. shortcut
10. doorbell
11. jellyfish
12. touchdown
13. campfire
14. skateboard
15. anyway
16. fireworks
17. haircut
18. loudspeaker
19. laptop
20. flashlight
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Spelling Words for
Unit 3 Week 5
To form possessives of singular nouns, add an apostrophe and s: family’s. To form possessives of plural nouns that end in s, add only an apostrophe: families’. Possessive pronouns are not formed with apostrophes: its.
1. its
2. ours
3. mine
4. yours
5. family’s
6. families’
7. man’s
8. men’s
9. girl’s
10. girls’
11. hers
12. theirs
13. brother’s
14. brothers’
15. teacher’s
16. teachers’
17. aunt’s
18. aunts’
19. boy’s
20. boys’
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