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Word Recognition For Grade 3: Date
Word Recognition For Grade 3: Date
Read phrases, sentences and stories using short a e i o CVC in combination with sight words and
vocabulary words learned from the literature
Phrases
Sentences
A Big Box
Read for fluency words, phrases, sentences, and stories containing–ox, -op, and –ot word
families plus sight words
Read words, phrases, sentences, and stories containing –od, -og, -om, -on, and–oy word families
plus sight words
Sight Words
away again
down after
eat any
here could
one from
three little
won’t
black pink
blue red
brown violet
gray white
green yellow
orange
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WORD RECOGNITION FOR GRADE 3
Do the CLOZE the GAP game. Copy the sentences in your notebook. Choose from the word bank below
the missing word to complete each sentence.
WORD BANK:
place plane plastic plate player plumber
Using pl blend
plant plane
plastic player
plate plumber
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WORD RECOGNITION FOR GRADE 3
Say: When two consonant letters are beside each other in a word, their sounds blend.
Example:
frog - /f/ and /r/ blend when we say the word frog.
grass - /g/ and /r/ blend when we say the word grass.
present - /p/ and /r/ blend when we say the word present.
truck - /t/ and /r/ blend when we say the word truck.
/fr/, /gr/, /pr/, and /tr/ are -r blends.
Ask:
1. What did a truck hit? (fruittree)
2. What fell from the tree? (fruitfrom the tree)
3. On what did it fall? (on the green grass below the tree)
4. What was the fruit meant to be? (apresent for friends)
5. What will happen now? (has nothing to bring to friends)
6. What else happened to the tree? (manybranches broke)
7. What fell into the pond? (one big branch of the tree)
8. What kind of noise did it make? (a loud noise like that of a drum)
9. What jumped out of the pond? (frogs)
10. What else left the pond? (crabs)
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WORD RECOGNITION FOR GRADE 3
Copy the sentences in your notebook. Choose from the given words the one that makes the most sense for each
sentence. Write it on the blank.
a. I wash and iron my________.
brush dress
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up shop hub
A. Have the children read aloud the words in A, by columns. Then call on whole class, small groups,
and individual child to read a column of words at a time. If needed, you can model how a word
should be read.
B. Do the same with the phrases in B. Ask questions to see if pupils know the meaning of the phrases.
his new car took him time red car when it is warm
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WORD RECOGNITION FOR GRADE 3
Words with sc, sk, sl, sn, sp, st, sw, spl, str, scr, sm, spr Sounds
sc sk sl sn sp st sw sm
scarf skit slam snack sport stop swim Small
scab skip slab snap spin star swat smell
scuff skin slap sniff spill stem swell smog
scar skull sled snip spell stick switch smile
score sketch slow snail spot stamp swift small
Have children do Exercise A, then read the words aloud after they have completed them.
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A B
Ask: What letter comes before y in the words in the box A? What do we add to nouns ending in –y with a vowel
before it? What letter comes before y in the words in box B? How do we form the plural of nouns ending in y with a
consonant before it? Say: Noun ending in –y with a vowel before it form their plural by adding –s only. Examples: family
– families city – cities
Guided Practice
Say: Work by pairs. Let‟s talk about the pictures on the chart. Set a partner. Your partner will give the singular and the
plural form of the objects in the picture while you will make a sentence using the plural form of the noun in the picture.
toys turkeys monkeys ladies fairies
Independent Practice
Say: Complete the poem. Give the plural forms of the nouns in the parenthesis. Refer your pupils to LM – Activity 86 on
page 94.
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Say: Tell something about each picture and the guesses you made.
Talk about Picture 1. Ask: What was your group‟s guess when I asked, “What do you think will Lemon do?
Was your group‟s guess correct? What really happened in the story?
Talk about Picture 2. Ask: What was your guess when I asked, “How do you think will Lemon‟s clothes look
like?” Was your group‟s guess correct? What really happened in the story?
Talk about Picture 3. Ask: What was your guess when I asked “How do you think will everybody feel about the
clothes Lemon wore at the party?” Was your group‟s guess correct? What really happened in the story?
Talk about Picture 4. Ask: What was your guess when I asked, “How do you think will the story end?” Was
your group‟s guess correct? What really happened in the story?
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Say: How are ch sounded in chocolate, change and much? Can you hear /c/? Can you hear /h/?
A different sound is given to ch. The sound of ch is /ch/.
Model reading the words and let the pupils read after you.
Activity
Say: Now let’s identify the pictures by completing the words with ch. Read the words, then the phrases and the sentences
with /ch/ in that order.
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watch bunch reach
branch rich
ranch inch
Say: I have here on the board a list of words and pictures they represent. I will read each set of words three times.
On my first reading just listen to me read the words. On the second time, I will read each word and repeat after me.
On the third time, you all read the set by yourselves. We will do the same thing to the next to the next two sets of
words.
Say: Let’s have more words with sh. Let the pupils read the words in a teaching chart. Make sure that the pupils
know the meaning of each word through vocabulary development activities such as pictures, action and context.
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WORD RECOGNITION FOR GRADE 3
shine sheet shake shut
Present the pictures and the words. Let the class read the words.
cake
lake
illustrate take
illustrate make
illustrate rake
illustrate bake
illustrate shade
Word Instruction
Flash BRAIN LIST for fast reading ( flash words one by one)
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fall mash dash dish make mate
tall rash
Introduce more words with long /a/ and silent e in –ame and –ale family. Be sure to illustrate or act out each word
before the pupils read them.
Teaching Chart
-ame -ale
dame male
fame pale
game sale
flame scale
frame stale
name tale
shame whale
Guided Practice
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Independent Practice
Say: Read the word under the picture. Model how the word should be read. Let us spell chime: c-h-i-m-e. Point to
the letters as you do so. What is the vowel in the middle? What is the sound of iin chime? Read the word again.
Read the following sentences and present the flashcard of the highlighted word as you say it then put each word in
the pocket chart or board.
Present the Teaching Chart for the words with long /i/.
Teaching Chart
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Activity 1
Among the words on the board, look for the right past form of the following irregular verbs:
hurt _________
lay _________
break _________
put _________
After the children have chosen the right answers, ask them:
What did you notice with the verbs when they are in the past form?
What two verbs showed a change in their past form? What change took place?
Group Activity
Say: Now let us play like a cat and dog. One volunteer from each group will be the “It” or the cat. They have to
jump on the right past form of the verb they are holding in order to get the bone. If they jump on to the wrong verb,
they will fall and the dog will get the bone instead.
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Say: What did you notice about the past form of the verbs?
What was added at the end of the verbs? Why?
What do we call this verb then?
Read words with the long vowel /o/ and ending in silent e as in hose
Read frequently occurring irregular verbs
Say: Sometimes, letter o, in words that end in e like bone and cone, is pronounced as /ow/.
Let us say the following words correctly.
3. Guided Practice
4. Independent Practice
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get-got rise-rose wake-woke
give-gave sing-sang write-wrote
ride-rode sit-sat win-won
know-knew throw-threw drive-drove
cooked helped
prepared poured
Ask: What do you noticed about these action words. Let’s study the chart below.
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What spelling pattern do these words have? Let’s blend the sound given to the consonants that come one
after another in the underlined syllables of these words?
/g/e/n/t/l/y/ = gently
/b/u/b/b/l/y/=
bubbly
Now, clap your hands every time you say blend sounds in the words that I’ll flash. Then read the whole word.
humbly tight
Read words with the long vowel /o/ and ending in silent e as in hose
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WORD RECOGNITION FOR GRADE 3
Write in your notebooks at least four sentences using any of the following
words. Be sure to have all four types of sentences: declarative, imperative,
exclamatory and interrogative.
Decode words with long vowel words ending in silent e: long u as in cube
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Once upon a time there was a king who owned a cute mule. He named it Muley.
Muley, the mule, looks like a horse. Muley, the mule, looks like a donkey.
One night in the middle of a celebration, the duke excused himself. The duke and Muley wanted to visit
the muse of the Amusing Kingdom. He wanted to introduce Muley to the muse.
When they arrived at the Amusing Kingdom, the muse went out and looked at Muley. She instantly
loved the cute Muley. She went back to her room. She got a bottle of perfume and gave the duke and Muley a
kiss and the perfume.
Questions:
3. Why did the king excuse himself in the middle of the celebration?
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Read and write words, phrases and sentences with oi and oy diphthongs
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vault
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Read words, phrases, sentences and stories containing words with digraph ee as in sheep
C. Read the sentences. Write the sentence numbers in the boxes above each
picture to show what the sentences say.
1. Fifteen deer hop on the grass.
2. A fast jeep moves along the street.
3. The baby has three teeth.
4. A wheel rolls on my feet.
5. There is a tree beside our house.
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Read and write words, phrases and short sentences with ea diagraphs
1. crowded beach
2. the coming year
3. a slice of meat
4. a kind beast
5. a clean ear
6. the crow’s beak
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Read and write words, phrases and sentences with ei and ie diagraph
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Read and write words, phrases and sentences with long /i/ sounds
1. red nail
2. pair of hair clip
3. rainbow across the sky
4. fresh air from the farm
5. long tail of a horse
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Read and write words, phrases and sentences with “ay” diagraph
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must never fight
Read words and phrases, with –ough (sounded as /Ʌf/ and /ɒ/)
-ough Words
A. Read the following words. What is the difference between the two sets of
–ough words?
/o/ /Ʌf/
bough cough
dough tough
although rough
enough
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Should I stand still and eat dough instead
Or go and till the soil and let boughs grow?
It is never wrong!
I just really love her
I want to wrap a gift or write a letter.
I want to give a Valentine wreath or a wren or whatever.
It is never wrong
I want to tell grandmother
My love for her is deeper than her wrinkle
I want to tell her I love her.
It is never wrong!
To say I love her.
It is never wrong to say
I love you grandmother!
Questions:
1. What is never wrong?
2. Is it all right to say ‘I love you’?
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3. Have you ever given a gift to anyone? Why did you give them a gift?
Remember:
Irregularly spelled words are read differently.
Not all letters are sounded.
Let us read each word. Write the word in your notebook and cross out the
letters that are not sounded.
1. again ___ ____ ____ ____ _____
2. because ___ ___ ___ ____ ____ _____ ____
3. earth ____ ____ ____ ____ _____
4. height ____ ____ _____ _____ _____ _____
5. Wednesday ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
6. come ____ ______ _____ _____
7. could _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
8. does ____ _____ ______ _____
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Irregularly-spelled Words
Read the following words. Then, tell me what letters are not sounded out in each word.
enough said
please again
knife
Say: Let us have the game “Pass the Baton”. I will show a word written on a flashcard. You will trace
the name of each letter of the word while saying the letter names. Then read the word.
Cover the word and let them write the word again in the air while spelling it.
Repeat until all words had been read and spelled. Words written in the flashcards are:
1. enough
2. please
3. knife
4. said
5. again
Copy the following sentences in your notebook. Then encircle the irregularly-
spelled words in each sentence.
1. Please, give me a glass of water.
2. Mother said that we are going to the market tomorrow.
3. His money is just enough for lunch.
4. My sister will be home soon.
5. I love my family very much.
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Practice reading this poem in groups. The first group will ask the questions while
the second group will answer.
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