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Macmillan McGraw-Hill TREASURES READING SERIES
Activity Supplement K e l l y Te n k e l y 2 0 1 0 h t t p : / / i l e a r n t e c h n o l o g y. c o m
P a g e s
3-19
THIRD GRADE UNIT 4 TREASURES
Week 1
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Cook-a-Doodle-Do
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Idioms
http:// www.childrensunivers ity.manchester.ac.uk/ interactives/literacy/ wordclasses/ idioms.asp
Idiom Game
Students match idioms to their meaning to advance in the game.
Students recognize and understand common idioms.
Idioms
http:// www.funbrain.com/ idioms/
Paint by Idioms
Students are given an idiom and must match the meaning. If correct, a portion of the picture is painted in.
Students recognize and understand common idioms.
Vocabulary
http://lexipedia.com
Visual dictionary/ Thesaurus
Search vocabulary words and get a visual representation of related words/antonyms/ synonyms/definitions
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Comprehension
http:// reading.ecb.org/ student/
Inferring (Magnifying Glass)
Students learn about making inferences while reading and practice making inferences with interactive activities.
Students think about and search the text, sometimes using personal knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated.
Comprehension /Vocabulary
http:// activities.macmillanm h.com/ OralLanguageActiviti es/main1.php? activityID=267
Activity 1
Students identify pictures and drag them to the appropriate context.
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Week 1
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Cook-a-Doodle-Do
Focus/ Essential Learning
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Comprehension /Vocabulary
http:// activities.macmillan mh.com/ OralLanguageActivit ies/main1.php? activityID=266
Activity 2
Talk with a partner about which tools can be used to cook with. Catch the objects that can be used in a pot.
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Vocabulary
http:// www.mhschool.com/ mmh_games/ content/reading/ gr3/unit04/week1/ v1/index.html
Vocabulary
Students match words with their definitions. All vocabulary comes from the reading this week.
Vocabulary recognition and fluency
Spelling
http:// www.spellingcity.com /ktenkely/
Spelling City Games
Students can choose from a variety of games to practice spelling words.
Spelling au, ou, aw words
Promethean Flipchart: Unit 4 Wk 1
Students practice sequencing by filling in a sequence chart. Students practice comparing and contrasting with a venn diagram. (2 pages)
Compare/contrast and sequencing
Idiom Quiz Show
Students are contestants on a quiz show where they have to match idioms to their meanings
Students recognize and understand common idioms
Comprehension
Idioms
http:// www.iknowthat.com /com/L3? Area=QuizShow
Week 2
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Seven Spools of Thread
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Comprehension
http://reading.ecb.org/ students
Inferring (Magnifying Glass)
Students drag the magnifying glass onto the book and practice inferring through an interactive activity.
Students think about and search the text, sometimes using personal knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated.
Grammar Blast: linking verbs
Students choose the sentence that contains the linking verb.
Students identify sentences that contain linking verbs.
Center Activity
Grammar
http:// www.eduplace.com/cgibin/hme-quiz-start.cgi? Grade=8&Unit=3&Topi c=Verbs&x=24&y=17 Center Activity
Vocabulary
http://lexipedia.com
Visual dictionary/ Thesaurus
Search vocabulary words and get a visual representation of related words/antonyms/ synonyms/definitions
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Oral Language Activity
http:// activities.macmillanmh.c om/ OralLanguageActivities/ main1.php? activityID=271
Teamwork Activity 2
Students identify and discuss pictures of various situations. Students determine if the children in the pictures are getting along.
Oral communication skills, discussion, empathy, recognition of emotions.
Oral Language/ character education
http:// activities.macmillanmh.c om/ OralLanguageActivities/ main1.php? activityID=269
Teamwork Activity 1
Students discuss activities that require teamwork
Oral communication skills, discussion
Week 3
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Washington Weed Whackers
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Comprehension
http://reading.ecb.org/ students
Inferring (Magnifying Glass)
Students drag the magnifying glass onto the book and practice inferring through an interactive activity.
Students think about and search the text, sometimes using personal knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated.
Center Activity
Spelling
http://spellingcity.com/ ktenkely
Spelling City
Students choose a spelling game to listen to and practice their spelling words.
Students learn spelling words with soft g and c for Unit 4 Week 3 spelling.
Vocabulary
http://lexipedia.com
Visual dictionary/ Thesaurus
Search vocabulary words and get a visual representation of related words/antonyms/ synonyms/definitions
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Grammar
http:// www.funbrain.com/ verb/index.html
To Be or Not to Be: Helping Verbs
Students choose the correct helping verb to complete the sentence.
Students identify the correct helping verb to complete each sentence.
Oral Language/ Comprehension
http:// activities.macmillanmh.c om/ OralLanguageActivities/ main1.php? activityID=350
Work with a partner Activity 2
Students catch garbage in the garbage can.
Oral communication skills, discussion
Week 3
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Washington Weed Whackers
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Oral Language Activities
http:// activities.macmillan mh.com/ OralLanguageActivit ies/main1.php? activityID=348 Center Activity
Activity 1
Students drag the picture to the correct category.
Students identify and categorize natural resources.
Comprehension /background information
http:// www.dnr.state.wi.us/ eek/ Center Activity
EEK! Environmental Education for Kids
Students explore this website to build background knowledge about Natural Resources
Students build background knowledge about Natural Resources for reading this week.
Comprehension /background information
http:// www.recycleworks.or g/kids/index.html
Recycle Works
Students explore this website to build background knowledge about Natural Resources Students can play related games.
Students build background knowledge about Natural Resources for reading this week.
Contractions Game (Attached)
Students play offline game to practice contractions
Students identify contractions
Center Activities
Grammar
Week 4
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Here’s My Dollar
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Comprehension
http://reading.ecb.org/ students
Questioning for Author’s Purpose
Students drag the question mark onto the book and practice questioning through an interactive activity.
Students ask questions about the text and the author’s intentions and seek information to clarify and extend their thinking before, during, and after reading.
Center Activity
Spelling
http://spellingcity.com/ ktenkely Center Activity
Spelling City
Students choose a spelling game to listen to and practice their spelling words.
Students learn spelling words with soft g and c for Unit 4 Week 4 spelling.
Vocabulary
http://lexipedia.com IWB
Visual dictionary/ Thesaurus
Search vocabulary words and get a visual representation of related words/antonyms/ synonyms/definitions
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Grammar
http:// www.missmaggie.org/ scholastic/ supermatch_eng_launch er.html Center Activity
Homophone Super Match
Students match up homophones in Maggie’s Earth Adventures.
Students identify and match up homophones.
Grammar
http:// www.learninggamesforki ds.com/word_games/ word_games_homophon es.html Center Activity
Homophone Learning Games
Students learn when and how to use homophones correctly in this pairs word game.
Students identify and decode the meaning of homophones.
Week 4
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- Here’s My Dollar
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Comprehension /Oral Language
http:// activities.macmillanmh. com/ OralLanguageActivities /main1.php? activityID=352 Center Activity
Activity 1: Here’s My Dollar
Students work with a partner to talk about how they can get involved in service projects.
Students talk with a partner about ways they can help the community to build oral language and comprehension for this weeks reading.
Comprehension /Oral Language
http:// activities.macmillanmh. com/ OralLanguageActivities /main1.php? activityID=359 Center Activity
Activity 2: Here’s My Dollar
Students find ways to get involved and help out in the community.
Students think about and discuss ways that they could help their communities to build comprehension for this weeks reading.
Comprehension /Vocabulary/ Grammar/Math
http://freerice.com Center Activity
Free Rice
Students practice vocabulary, grammar, or math while earning grains of rice for hungry people around the world.
Students get involved in changing the world by earning grains of rice for those who are hungry around the world. This is realworld tie into the concepts being learned about in this weeks reading.
Week 5
TREASURESUNIT 4 Third Grade- My Very Own Room
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Web Address
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
Spelling
http://spellingcity.com/ ktenkely Center Activity
Spelling City
Students choose a spelling game to listen to and practice their spelling words.
Students learn spelling words with soft g and c for Unit 4 Week 4 spelling.
Vocabulary
http://lexipedia.com IWB
Visual dictionary/ Thesaurus
Search vocabulary words and get a visual representation of related words/antonyms/ synonyms/definitions
Vocabulary and comprehension building
Grammar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ skillswise/words/ spelling/plurals/ pluralrules/flash0.shtml
Gnome Fishing Plural Game
Students choose a plural rule to practice. Students are given a word and go fishing for the correct plural form of the word.
Students identify the correct plural form of words.
Students learn when and how to use homophones correctly in this pairs word game.
Students match singular and plural nouns.
Center Activity/IWB
Roy the Zebra Singular and Plural noun match
http:// www.manythings.org/ wbg/irr-plurals1-jw.html IWB
Irregular plurals match.
Students take turns matching up nouns to their plural form.
Students identify and match nouns with their plurals.
Center Activity
Grammar
Grammar
http:// www.roythezebra.com/ reading-games/singularor-plural-1.html
Week 5
TREASURESUNIT 4
Focus/ Essential Learnings
Third Grade- My Very Own Room
Web Address
Grammar
Comprehension
http://teach.fcps.net/ talk/lesson_display.asp? lessonID=87
Activity Name
Activity
Skills Gained
I Have Who Has Contraction Game (Attached)
Students stand in a circle and each take a game card. The first students starts by reading their card “I have aren’t, who has do not?” The students with the “don’t” contraction answers, “I have don’t, who has could not?” Play continues until every student has found their match.
Students practice active listening and matching words with their contractions.
Making Predictions story.
Students view a series of pictures taken from an online story. They make predictions about what the story will be about. Students read the online story to find out if their predictions were right.
Students practice making predictions about a story before reading.
Make Predictions
Students click on squares to reveal parts of a picture. Students try to predict what the picture is of by uncovering the fewest amount of squares.
Students look for clues to make predictions.
IWB whole class activity/Center activity with a partner.
Comprehension Strategy
http:// www.philtulga.com/ Prediction.html IWB whole class activity/Center activity with a partner
For use with:
2nd and 3rd Grade
I HAVE/WHO HAS CONTRACTION GAME
I have: can not
Who has: aren’t
I have: do not
Who has: doesn’t
I have: are not
Who has: don’t
s: a h o h W I have: uldn’t o c t o n does
s: a h o h : W e v I ha ’t n d l u o t o w n could
I have: Who has: won’t should not
s: a h o h W : e I hav dn’t l u o h s t o n would
I have: will not
Who has: haven’t
as: h o h : W e v a Ih dn’t a t h o n e v a h
I have: has not
Who has: isn’t
I have: had not
I have: is not
Who has: hasn’t
Who has: wasn’t
I have: was not
Who has: weren’t
s: a h o h W : e I hav an’t c t o n e r we