Third Grade: Theme 1 Selection 1 Dollar and Sense

1. Third Grade: Theme 1 Selection 1 Dollar and Sense

2. VCCV Pattern • Vowels usually have the short sound when they are followed by two consonants. • Locate the first two vowels and place a dot underneath the vowels. • Underline the consonants between the vowels. • hāppen • wĭnter • lĕsson • băsket

5. Challenge Words skillet picnic planet system pumpkin

6. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? happen monster lettuce supper basket subject winter lesson sister spelling

7. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? napkin skillet collar picnic traffic planet suggest system puppet pumpkin

8. Teacher Read Aloud: Prairie Town by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert Activate Prior Knowledge: Share what you know about the different seasons. How do activities change through the year?

9. Purpose Setting: • Listen for details that indicate that “Prairie Town” is an example of realistic fiction. • Each season in a prairie town brings different activities, both for work and for fun. • Do you think this story shows something that could have really happened? • How would you describe this story – as a realistic story or as a fantasy? Why?

10. Build Concept Vocabulary The town prospered amid the bounty of wheat fields, and grain elevators dominated the skyline.

11. Build Concept Vocabulary The town and its farm neighbors are economic and social partners.

12. Build Concept Vocabulary School is back in session, and farm children swell the population during the day.

13. Build Concept Vocabulary economic bounty Business Growth Community Development Residents population

14. Comprehension Skill: Realism and Fantasy A realistic story tells about something that could happen. A fantasy is a story about something that could never happen. As you read, ask yourself, “Could this happen?”

15. Strategy: Prior Knowledge Good readers connect what they are reading with what they already know. Using what you know can help you better understand what you read. You can judge whether a story is realistic or a fantasy.

16. Pecos Bill and the Tornado • Realism and Fantasy • 1. Are there things from the first two paragraphs that could not really happen? • Use your prior knowledge to help you decide whether or not the story is realistic. • What do you know about tornadoes? Use that to help you decide if this is a realistic story or a fantasy.

17. Boom Town Author: Sonia Levitin

18. Genre: Historical Fiction • Historical fiction takes place in the past. • Made-up characters are placed in a real setting; their actions are fictional.

19. More Books Written by Sonia Levitin

20. Old boomtowns of the west were built around mining sites.  They started out as little camps with tents. As more and more people learned about the area that might have potential of making prospectors rich, more people came.  With the increase of population came the increase of merchants and mining companies.  A general store and other shops would be established.     

21. The general store was a huge social gathering place.  Merchants made a fortune off of settlers.  They realized that selling tools to miners  made huge profits.  Prices were sky-high, almost 10 times what the merchant paid the wholesaler.Stores and restaurants opened up quickly as well.  Boarding houses and hotels usually were small.

22. having rapid growth boom “I’m building a bank,” Mr. Hooper said to me. “This is getting to be a boom town.” Synonyms: advance growth

23. work done to earn a living business “You’re a right smart little girl,” said the peddler, “being in business like this.” Synonyms: career employment livelihood

24. round pieces of metal used as money coins Saturday night when he came home singing, coins jangled in his pocket. Synonyms: change currency

25. went and got something fetched But after all the water was fetched and the wash was done, I’d sit outside the cabin door with Baby Betsy. Synonym: retrieved carried

26. a room or building where clothes are washed and ironed laundry “What we need is a laundry for washing clothes,” said Amanda. Synonym: cleaner

27. sewing that repairs a hole or tear mending They found they could make money mending clothes. Synonym: fixing repairing patching

28. a tool with a heavy metal bar pointed at one or both ends, having a long, wooden handle pick Tools such as a pick and an ax fetched a good price. Synonym:

29. a type of frying pan skillet I poked around in a big box of stuff and found an old iron skillet. Synonym: frying pan

30. a period of time spell “I’d like to rest a spell,” he said. Synonym: bit stretch while moment

31. Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? boom laundry mending business pick coins fetched skillet spell

32. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words! Draw! Draw! Draw!

33. Free Association • When I say a word, you write down any words you can think of that remind you of that word. • For example: • The word is school: • learning • Science • pencils • Reading • Math • teachers • P.E. • Education 1. boom 2. spell 3. business 4. coins 5. fetched 6. laundry 7. mending 8. pick 9. skillet

34. Classifying • Place the following words in categories: • boom spell business • coins fetched laundry • mending pick skillet • Decide the names of the categories. • Determine how many categories. • Determine which words go in which categories. • After classifying the words, write a paragraph explaining each of the categories and why certain words go in a particular category.

35. Can You Find the Context Clues? 1. The visitors would take their clothes to the ________ to be washed.. 2. Amanda saved the _________ she received for selling her pies. 3. This is becoming a __________ town as more people move in and open new stores. 4. Amanda decided to sit a _____________ after she had worked all day. 5. Our family looks forward to Saturday mornings when dad cooks bacon and eggs in the _________________. 6. The miner used a _______________ to break up the earth. 7. Mother was always busy ____________ the holes in our clothes. 8. Amanda suggested to the visitor that he should start a laundry ___________. 9. Pioneers __________________ water from the wells and streams. boom; spell; business; coins; fetched; laundry; mending; pick; skillet

36. Synonym Search Match the vocabulary words on the left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some vocabulary words have more than one synonym. Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! boom spell business coins fetched laundry mending skillet

37. Word Association Challenge • Which word goes with a new restaurant in town? Why? 2. Which word goes with thread? Why? 3. Which word goes with the ground? Why? 4. Which word goes with a ball? Why? 5. Which word goes with jingling? Why? 6. Which word goes with education? Why? 7. Which word goes with eating? Why? 8. Which word goes with reading a book? Why? 9. Which word goes with drying? Why? Word Bank boom spell business coins fetched laundry mending pick skillet

38. Tell Me What You Know • Describe a time when you witnessed a dog that fetched an object. • 2. Is your area considered a boom town? Why? • 3. Create a Tree Map of coins. • 4. List foods that you could cook in a skillet. • 5. Sequence how you would mend a button on a shirt. • 6. What are the causes and effects of a successful business?.