3rd Grade Word Study Overview

Beth Newingham & Holly Gordon

*Indicates a 2-Week Unit

**Indicates a 3-Week Unit
Unit Focus Patterns Center Activities
-short vowel picture sort
- Spin and Roll SB Activity
Initial - Word Family Fishing*
Consonant sp, st, sw, sn, - Blend Candy Land
1 Blends/ sm, sc, sk, tr, tw - CCVC Card Sharks*
-Blend Chart
Short Vowels -Blend Scattergories
*Extra activities in this unit

-short vowel picture sort

More Initial
bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, -Blend Chart
Consonant - Word Family Fishing
2 Blends with
pl, pr, sl, tr, scr, str, spl, spr - Blend Candy Land
- Spin and Roll SB Activity
short vowels -Blend Scattergories

Final -Listen to the End

- Word Family Fishing
Consonant -st -nd -mp -sp -nt -lt -ld
3 Blends with -lf –pt -sk -ng -ft -ng -nk
- Final Blend Candy Land
- Spin and Roll SB Activity
short vowels -Blend Scattergories

-Long a Dominoes
- Long a Race Track Game
Long a Vowel -a_e, ai, ay, eigh
4* Patterns -Trick spelling=ea, like great
- Long a Tic-Tac-Toe
- Long a Treasure Chest
-SMART Board Activity

-Long e Dominoes
-e_e, ey , ea, ee - Long e Race Track Game
Long e Vowel
5* Patterns
-y at the end of the word - Long e Tic-Tac-Toe
- Long e Treasure Chest
-Tricky spelling= ie, like thief and field -SMART Board Activity

-Long i Dominoes
- i_e, ie, igh - Sounds of Y
Long i Vowel
6* Patterns
-y at the end of the word = fly - Long i Tic-Tac-Toe
- Long i Treasure Chest
-Tricky spelling= ye, like rye and bye -SMART Board Activity
 -Long o Dominoes
- Long o Race Track Game
Long o Vowel
7* Patterns
-o_e, oe, ow, ough, oa - Long o Tic-Tac-Toe
- Long o Treasure Chest
-SMART Board Activity

-Long u Dominoes
- Long u Race Track Game
Long u Vowel u_e, ue, oo, ew
8* Patterns
- Long u Tic-Tac-Toe
- Long u Treasure Chest
-SMART Board Activity

Long a: a/magic e, ai, eigh, ay, a -Long Vowel Word Race

Long e: e/magic e, ey, ea, ee, y, ie - Long Vowel Word Sort
Long Vowel
9 Review
Long i: i/magic e, ie, igh, i, y, ye - Magic e Uno
Long o: o/magic e, oe, ow, ough, oa, o - Long Vowel Go Fish
-SMART Board Activity
Long u: u/magice, ue, ew, oo

-Homophone BINGO
- Homophone Tic-Tac-Toe
Variety of common homophones
10* Homophones
(many contain long vowel patterns)
-Homophone Memory
-Homophone Rummy
Homophone Dominoes

- H brothers match game

- H brothers Lotto
Digraphs
11. (H Brothers)
ph, ch, wh, sh, th, - H Brothers Word Race
-H Brothers picture sort
SMART Board Activity

-Prefix Memory
Week 1: re, un, dis -Prefix Addition (Making Words)
12.* Prefixes
Week 2: mis, over, pre
-Prefix “Spin a Word” Board Game
- Prefix BINGO
-SMART Board Activity

-Suffix Matching
Week 1: less, ful, ly -Suffix Addition (Making Words)
13.* Suffixes
Week 2: ion, able, ment
-Suffix “Spin a Word” Board Game
- Suffix LOTTO
-Name that Suffix
 Closed syllables: end in at least one consonant, like
nap-kin, and the vowel sound is usually short (vel-vet, -Magnetic Letters
-Syllable Football
Open/Closed lem-on, bun-ny, in-sect)
14. Syllables Open syllables: end in a vowel, and the vowel sound is
-Syllable Checkers
-Open/Closed Word Sort
usually long, like ho-tel, so-da, bro-ken, fe-ver, be-gin, -SMART Board Activity
ba-gel

Consonant -Checkers (c+le)

Open/Closed Word Sort
+ le ble, tle, gle, dle, fle,
15. (Open & Closed cle, kle, ple, zle
-Magnetic Letters
-Syllable Football
Syllables) -SMART Board Activity

Bossy r Treasure Hunt

ar, er, ir, are, eer, Bossy r Word Race
16. Bossy r or, air, ear, ur -Bossy r Letter Spin Game
-Bossy r Checkers
-SMART Board Activity

-Dipthing Treasure Hunt

-Cow on a Plow
17. Dipthongs ow, ou, oi, oy Dipthong Dominoes
-Dipthong Board game
-SMART Board Activity

Review of “7 Types of Syllables” learned throughout the

school year:
-Multisyllable Checkers
7 Syllable 1. Open syllable
-Syllable Sort
2. Closed syllable
*18. Types” 3. Dipthongs (talkers)
-Syllable Football
-Syllable Go Fish
Review 4. Dipthongs (whiners)
-SMART Board Activity
5. Consonant +le
6. Bossy r

-Adding –ed & -ing Word Sorts

Endings -Freddy the Hopping Frog
19. (This skill is also taught
during morning grammar
-ed, -ing -Word Ending Memory Match
work earlier in the year.)
-Word Ending Checkers
-SMART Board Activity

- Plural Noun Dominoes

Plurals
**20. (This skill is also taught
during morning grammar
work earlier in the year.)
Week 1:Words that end in –s or –es -Plural Noun Go Fish
Week 2: Words that end in –y, -f, -lf, fe - Plural Playground
Week 3: Irregular Plurals & Plural Review - Plural Noun memory
- Poppin’ Plurals
 -Comparatives Checkers
-How Does it Compare?
21. Comparatives -er, -est -Crazy Comparisons Board Game
-Adding –er & -est Word Sorts
-SMART Board Activity

Contraction Memory
Contractions Contraction Tic-Tac-Toe
22. (This skill is also taught
during morning grammar
A variety of common contractions -Contraction LOTTO
work earlier in the year.) - Contraction Cut & Paste