Storytown 3rd Grade Theme 3 Study Guide
StoryTown Theme 1 Lessons 1-5 and Theme 2 Lessons 6-7. Reading: Foundational Skills. Phonics and Word Recognition.
Sentences, statements, commands, exclamations. Make a Sentence - Choose Make a Sentence and put the penguins in correct order to create a sentence. Choose the correct punctuation and correct the sentence. Divide passages into sentences.
multiple choice question on simple and compound sentences. select a naming part and a telling part (subject/predicate) Characters and Setting.
Determine what makes characters alike. Determine what makes different settings alike.
Determine what the character will do based on a short passage. Diagraphs. Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends. Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs. Direct your dragon with the mouse and catch the globes with real words. Choose the phoneme that you wish to work with.
select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures. find the blend that matches the picture. select the correct digraph. select the correct digraph ending.
These resources were created and shared by teachers and reading coaches from many different places. Isn't it wonderful to share our hard work and creative ideas?
Please share your ideas by emailing Dr. Elder at: selder@pcboe.net (This form is for Lakewood teachers to use in the Progress Profile Notebooks) Organization Kandi Mobarakzadeh, 1st grade teacher at Lakewood, shared this organization tip. Print this file, cut out and glue each 'Week at a Glance' to the front of a file folder. You can then laminate the file folders if you wish. Keep everything pertaining to that lesson in the file folder for future reference.
You'll quickly be able to see what skills are covered during that week by looking at the outside of the file folder. Focus Board Planning Sheet This is a planning sheet for a focus board created and shared by Donna Freas, Upper Darby School District, Pennsylvania.
These are Donna's notes: I included 3 weeks/lessons on the template to save paper and time. Example: If the top is labeled: Lesson, 1, 2, & 3, ALL the info for those weeks will be on the paper but not hung up at the same time. The only constants are the Essential Questions. We only put one lesson on the board at a time. The second row indicates what should be there for the next lesson, and the third is the following lesson. There are many photos out there of Theme Boards for StoryTown. This is a guide to help know what to put on there.
I included the items that my district wants us to have. If a teacher downloads it on their computer, then they can add or make changes. I print it out, and attach it to a large envelope.
I store all of the cards, titles, words, etc. In that folder to use the following year. It makes life as a teacher a little easier! Word Sorts (These word sorts are created and shared by Kelly Berry, Commerce City, Colorado. Kelly says, 'Each document has three pages-grade level and a below-level.
Grade level word sort has pictures and students place the picture in the correct column and correctly spell the word to match. Below-level has pictures and the words printed. The thrid page can be copied on the back for students to write sentences is they complete their work early.' Kelly has offered to create word sorts for all thirty lessons and will share these files as she creates them.).
Spin-a-Word (Print the file on cardstock. Assemble the spinner and cut apart the word cards. Give each student a copy of the recording sheet. Place the word cards face-down in a stack. Students take turns drawing a card from the stack. Then they spin the spinner.
3rd Grade Theme 3 Week 2
If the student can add the inflectional ending to the word on their word card to make a new word, they record the new word on their recording sheet. If not, they return the word card to the bottom of the card stack. Play continues until all word cards are used. Students add up the number of words on their recording sheet to determine their score.). Spelling Word Practice (To use these as a center activity, place spelling word flashcards in a center along with the spelling fans. Option 1: Children can work with a partner by pulling a card and reading the word to their partner. The partner will build the word by moving the blades on the fan without looking at the flashcard.
Partner 1 will check his work by comparing the spelling fan to the word card. Option 2: Children can also work in 3's with one person calling the words and the other two students racing each other to see who can build the word the quickest.
Storytown 3rd Grade Theme 3 Study Guide Answers
Again, the first partner will check for accuracy. Option 3: Children who are severely struggling with spelling words can pull a card, read it, and build it by looking at the word card as a model.
This will be done independently. Option 4: Students can complete the activity independently in a Look, Cover, Spell, Check method. The student will pull a card and read it. The student will look at the card while verbally spelling the word. The student will then put the word face down. The student then builds the word with the spelling fan. The student checks his work by comparing his spelling fan to the flashcard.).
Lesson 30 (, to go with lesson) Decodable Fluency Passage for Independent Literacy Center Activity Decodable Two-Part Color-Coded Partner Read Sight Word (High Frequency Words) Practice Complete Kindergarten High-Frequency Words Powerpoint for Assessing Accuracy/Automaticity First Grade High-Frequency Words Powerpoint for Assessing Accuracy/Automaticity.Note: This is a 1/3 second display.Note: This is a 1/3 second display High Frequency Words Checklist (Created and shared by Lynne Field, Fulton, New York. Lynne and her colleagues use this form to assess students each 9-weeks) I Have Who Has Cards for High Frequency (Sight) Words. This file contains all sight words covered in kindergarten, a center sign with directions, and a recording sheet. Print on cardstock.
Cut out each piece of popcorn and hole punch a hole in the middle left side and the middle right side. Place the popcorn pieces in a popcorn bag along with a long string or shoelace.
Students will read the popcorn words and string the popcorn as they do so. A recording sheet is also included. Use this sight word game in a sight word literacy center, at the beginning of a small group as a sight word review, for volunteers to use with children to build sight words, or print a set to send home for a fun sight word practice game! Directions are below. You may also wish to combine sets for a complete review of all sight words from a theme. (These were created from a template created by Kelly Nyman.).
DATA Forms Benchmark Data These forms were created and shared by Rachel Musser of Santa Rosa County, Florida. Rachel suggests that teachers add students' names in the column on the left, put an X in the column where an error occured per item per student. Then, simply by reading down the column a teacher will immediately determine the number of items missed by class and by individual.
This will be a great tool for differentiated small group instruction. Rachel adds these printing hints:.Print in color to view items assessed and the frequency (color-coded).Use landscape orientation.Use legal-sized paper.All spreadsheets are two pages (print, trim, and tape to make a final copy just slightly larger than letter-size paper). Other Resources (Follow these easy directions shared by Jane Whitfield, Ivalee Elementary, to create books for home practice and literacy centers so that you can save the wear and tear on your original books by using those books only in small group instruction.) (Use this information for pulling appropriate guided reading levels from Lakewood's bookroom to supplement Harcourt. Find the guided reading level for the desired Storytown text and you will know which books from our bookroom are compatible with that level.) (Resources for parents to use in the summer to help ensure their child is ready for 2nd Grade) Helpful Websites! (click on Storytown Reading Resources on the left hand side of the page) (Thanks to Kelly Howard for sharing this website!) (Harcourt Storytown's Technology Website).