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3rd Grade Spelling Program: Lessons and Worksheets for an entire year! Curriculum Map

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A Spelling Program for a full year. This program includes the teaching guide with a strategic plan for students to ONLY practice the words they don't know, and NO PREP! Worksheets.

Program includes:

  • 36 units organized by a sequence of spelling patterns based on sound structure, function, and meaning, as well as high-frequency vocabulary.

  • A 5-day teaching plan for each unit provides the skill focus, teaching tips, word list, introductory activities, skill exercises, independent practice, challenge words and review activities.

  • A wealth of remediation, enrichment, tracking, and assessment tools is also included, and all components of this program are designed for flexibility so that you can meet the diverse needs of your students within a minimum of preparation.

Blacklines:

  • The blackline masters support and extend the lessons in the program.

  • 36 carefully sequenced study units designed to increase student achievement in spelling.

  • Each unit focuses on specific spelling patterns, as well as high-frequency vocabulary appropriate for this grade level. High-frequency words are marked with an asterisk.

  • The independent word study exercises incorporate the multi sensory tasks identified as the most effective in current spelling research.

Section 1: Teacher Guide

  • Instructional Approach

  • Implementation of the Program

  • Teaching Tip

  • Word List

  • Introducing the Skill Activities

  • Applying the Skill Exercises

  • Independent Practice Exercises

  • Challenge Words: Syllabication Skills

  • Review Activities

  • Math Connections

  • Spelling Through Writing: Cue Cards, “Have a Go” Book, Spelling Journal,

  • Proofreading Checklist

  • Modified Programming - Remediation and Enrichment

  • Assessment: Self-Corrected Testing Procedure; Scoring Student Spelling;

  • Recognizing Individual Progress; Error Analysis; Writing Records

  • Recording Student Development

  • Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Tracking and Assessment Forms

  • Scope and Sequence of Skills, Test Scores

  • Booklet Cover

  • Spelling Award

Section 2: Thirty Six Unit Teaching Plans

Reviews

Unit 1: Review of Short Vowels

Unit 2: Review of Consonant Blends

Digraphs

Unit 3: Digraphs ch, sh

Unit 4: Digraphs th, wh

Unit 5: 3-Letter Consonant Clusters

Long Vowels

Unit 6: Long Vowel /a/ in a_e, ai, ay

Unit 7: Long Vowel /e/ in e, ea, ee, ie, ey

Unit 8: Long Vowel /i/ in i, i_e, ie, igh

Unit 9: Long Vowel /o/ in o, oa, o_e, ow

Unit 10: Long Vowel /u/ in u, ue, u_e, ew

Vowels

Unit 11: Y as a Vowel

Unit 12: Vowel + r in ar, or

Unit 13: Vowel + r in er, ir, ur

Dipthongs

Unit 14: Dipthongs oi, oy

Unit 15: Dipthongs ou, ow

Units 16 to 19

Unit 16: Vowel + l and w Spelled au, aw, all, alk

Unit 17: 2 Sounds of Letters oo

Unit 18: Double Consonants

Unit 19: Suffixes ed, ing

Plurals

Unit 20: Regular Plurals s, es

Unit 21: Irregular Plurals

Units 22 to 24

Unit 22: Contractions

Unit 23: Hard and Soft g, c

Unit 24: Compound Words

Suffixes

Unit 25: Suffixes er, est, en

Unit 26: Suffixes ful, ly, ness

Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives

Unit 27: Nouns

Unit 28: Verbs

Unit 29: Adjectives

Silent Consonants

Unit 30: Silent Consonants

Homophones, Antonyms & Synonyms

Unit 31: Homophones

Unit 32: Antonyms

Unit 33: Synonyms

Units 34 to 36

Unit 34: Syllables

Unit 35: Prefix re_

Unit 36: Prefixes un_, dis

Section 3: Introductory Activities

Section 4: Independent Practice Exercises

Section 5: Review Activities

Section 6: Take Home Lists

Section 7: Forms for Activities and Games

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