Bear's Plum Tree
In This Grade 3 Bear’s Plum Tree 9 The Box House 15 Mail for Mia 21 Eight Red Apples 27 Work in the Garden 33 Surprise Surpriseon onthe thePath Path 39 Meeting MeetingaaDragon Dragon 45 Fall FallFun Fun 51 Worms Worms 57 IICan CanJump Jump 63 Bert and Beth’s Busy Day 69 First Day of School
RF.3.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
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3. Write the /ch/ words that are fruit. 1. Circle the /ch/ words in the puzzle below. peach cherry
R F H C T A M G L T
match armchair
Q I K N U M P I H C
T T A M Y D Q H X W
chipmunk butcher
P E H H H Z B C C A
H Y A C C U Y T H T
H C A C T M C E I C
fetch catch
V E T C H A R F M H
a.
watch pitch
P O H I T E K A N N
Z E P C P W R P E K
chimney teacher
4. Write the /ch/ words that are people.
R C H E R R Y W Y N
a.
a. b. c. d. e. f.
RF.3.3 Link to Anchor Reading Unit 1 -- Bear’s Plum Tree Homework: Say each spelling word aloud and spell it in the air.
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b.
5. Write the /ch/ words that are actions.
a.
c.
b.
6. Write the /ch/ words that are things you find at home.
2. Write the /ch/ words in their correct boxes.
ch
b.
tch a. b. c. d. e. f.
a.
c.
b.
d.
7. Write the /ch/ word that is an animal.
a.
Digraphs and Trigraphs (ch, tch) The digraph ch and the trigraph tch make the /ch/ sound as in cherry and catch.
RF.3.3 Link to Anchor Reading Unit 1 -- Bear’s Plum Tree Homework: Have someone at home test you on writing the words.
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8. Label each picture with the correct /ch/ word. 1. Complete the sentence with the correct word. peach cherry
match armchair
a. A
chipmunk butcher
fetch catch
watch pitch
chimney teacher
tells the time.
b. How far can you
the ball?
c. Smoke from the fireplace goes up a d. I will
9. Write the /ch/ words that have the same ending sound.
berry
skunk
latch
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the butterfly with the net.
e. She is a
at our school.
f. Who will
the book and bring it to me?
g. This
is red and small.
h. The
sat in the tree eating nuts.
i. We will go to the j. A k. He will use a l. Grandpa sits in his
kidney
.
to get some meat. has fuzz on it. to start the fire. .
2. Work with a partner and write three different words that have “ch” in them.
beach
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Link to Anchor Reading Unit 1 -- Bear’s Plum Tree
Link to Anchor Reading Unit 1 -- Bear’s Plum Tree
Homework: Review the spelling words and write as many as you can from memory. Then, check and write the missing words.
Homework: Write a sentence for each spelling word.
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3. Circle the correctly spelled word in each row.
a. maitch
maych
match
maich
armchair
armchear
armcheer
c. peach
peech
pech
peatch
d. waitch
watch
wawtch
wach
butcher
bucher
boutcher
f. chairy
chery
cherry
cheiry
g. pitch
petch
pietch
pech
h. teecher
tiecher
teatcher
teacher
i. cach
caetch
catch
caitch
cheepmunk
chepmunk
chipmunk
k. fetch
feetch
fech
feech
l. chemney
chimny
chemny
chimney
b. armchar
e. buetcher
j. chipmonk
RF.3.3 Link to Anchor Reading Unit 1 -- Bear’s Plum Tree
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Homework: Have someone at home test you on the spelling words. Practice writing any misspelled words.