Making Words Third Grade: 70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

Based on its highly successful parent book, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curricula cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.

Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!

List of contents

Introduction

Lesson 1  shopping

            Lesson focus:  spelling change: double the p when adding ing

Lesson 2  tripped

            Lesson focus:  spelling change:  double the p when adding ed

                                    homophones tied, tide

Lesson 3  scrubbing

            Lesson focus spelling change: double the b when adding ing

Lesson 4  branches

            Lesson focus:  spelling change: es is added when words end in ch

Lesson 5  crashes

            Lesson focus:  spelling change: es is added when words end in sh or ch

Lesson 6  shoppers

            Lesson focus:  suffix er meaning person or thing that does something

                                    spelling change: double the p when adding er

Lesson 7  gardeners

            Lesson focus:  suffix er meaning person or thing that does something

                                    spelling change: drop final e when adding er 

                                    homophones:  dear, deer

Lesson 8  planners

            Lesson focus:  suffix er meaning person or thing that does something

                                    spelling change: double the n when adding er

Lesson 9  beginners

            Lesson focus:  suffix er meaning person or thing that does something

                                    spelling change: double the n when adding er

          

About the author

Patricia M. Cunningham is a Professor of Education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience, taught in various elementary grades and remedial reading, and was a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Her major professional goal is promoting literacy for all children and currently engages in Four-Blocks® workshops and staff development with educators.

 

Dorothy P. Hall is a Professor of Education at Wake Forest University.

Summary

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

 

Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall  present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

 

In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.   

 

Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!   

• Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Cunningham, Patricia M. Cunningham, Dorothy Hall, Dorothy P. Hall
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2024
• EAN: 9780205580934
• ISBN: 978-0-205-58093-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 274 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Series: Allyn & Bacon; Making Words; Allyn & Bacon; Making Words Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology