Book 1 (Grade 3)

 

Words Are Wonderful, Book 1
Grade 3 undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined undefinedWords Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary, Book 1 introduces students to dictionary guide words and entries, homophones, compound words, words with multiple meanings, alliteration, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, contractions, possessives, analogies, idioms, and inflectional verb endings. The selections are drawn from science, social studies (historical report and biography), stories (myth, fairy tale, folktale, and fable), and poetry, and include a first-person report, a sports report, a book report, and a journal entry. Every sixth lesson is a review.

Skills Addressed:

• Alliteration • Analogies • Antonyms • Compound words • Context clues • Contractions • Dictionary use: guide words and entries • Hierarchies and sets • Homophones • Homophones • Idioms • Picture clues and captions • Prefixes: in-, un-, re-, out-, over-

• References: globes, almanacs, and atlases • Roots: numbers (uni-, bi-, tri-, mono-, du-, dec-, cent-, and mill-); fort- • Spelling: the letters qu- • Suffixes: -er, -ful, -ion, -or, and -ly • Synonyms • Tables of data • Test Taking/Assessment • Verb Endings: -ed, -ing • Visualizing words • Webbing • Words with multiple meanings • Writing: interactive and independent

 

The Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 1 wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening, instructional, and closing measures for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including word walls, word sorts, shared and choral reading, interactive and independent writing, syllable claps, and picture searches.

 

The test book will help teachers assess their students’ knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 1 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.