Description

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 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!  

Features

• Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills with your students.
• 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.
• Activates students’ prior knowledge and promotes learning of new words to perfect spelling skills.
• Includes reproducible letter strips, take-home sheet, and homophone book to help students remember what they learn.
• Provides teachers with step-by-step instructions, tips, and a wealth of examples for creating a personalized lesson from scratch.

Table 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

          

Back Cover

 

Patricia M. Cunningham Dorothy P. Hall

Making Words 3^rd Grade

70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones

 

Based on the best selling book, Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing, this grade level series offers a fresh pairing of lessons and activities for kindergarten through fifth grade. In Making Words: Third Grade, Pat and Dottie provide third grade teachers with 70 Making Words lessons that cover all of the spelling and decoding skills included in most third grade curricula. After making words in the first part of the lesson, students sort  these words for homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns–allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.  

 

“[Pat] covers the gamut of instruction [and] the examples are great.  I already find myself planning lessons for the coming year!”

 –Amy Martindale Kelly, third grade teacher, Gratham School, Goldsboro, NC

 

“[A] great resource…the students will benefit greatly from seeing how words are put together.  I plan to include lessons of this type in the years to come!” 

–Sonya Patrick, third grade teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School, Winston Salem, NC

 

 “[Pat and Dottie] did a wonderful job of putting these [lessons] together.  As a teacher, I was really impressed with the content of this book.” 

–Toni Harbaugh, third grade teacher, Horizon Elementary School, Jerome, ID

 

 

Patricia M. Cunningham is the author of Beyond Retelling, Classrooms That Work, Schools That Work, and Phonics They Use, all published by Allyn & Bacon, as well as a professor of education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience in various elementary grades and with remedial reading and has served as a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Pat promotes literacy for all children through her Four Blocks® workshops and staff development sessions with educators.

 

Dorothy P. Hall is the co-developer of the Four Blocks® framework and the director of the Four Blocks® Center at Wake Forest University. A former elementary teacher and education professor, she also presents workshops around the country on Four Blocks®, Building Blocks, guided reading strategies, and phonics instruction.

 

 

 

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.