Name: ______________________
Gary Road Intermediate
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3 Grade Language Arts Skill Sheet
December 1-5, 2014
Skills for the week
Vocabulary Words
Story of the week: Sprak ( Reading A-Z )
Unit 2 Book: What’s the Big Idea Ben Franklin
Phonics- Recognizing word patterns with unique vowel
sounds
Grammar- Identifying irregular verbs and using commas in
addresses and dates
Reading- Text features and informational (nonfiction) text
brook
Spelling Words
wolf
look
good
bush
wool
butcher
shook
should
would
This week’s standards
RL.5- refer to parts of a story, drama, and poems when writing or speaking
about text using terms such as chapter, scenes, and stanza; describe how
each successive part builds on earlier sections.
RI.3- describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific
ideas, or steps in a technical procedure, using language that pertains to time,
sequence, and cause and effect
RI.5- use features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given
topic efficiently
L.1demostrate command of conventions of Standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing
1. Community- (noun) a group of people
living in the same place or having a
particular characteristic in common
2. Citizen- (noun) an inhabitant of a
particular town or city
3. Citizenship- (noun) Citizenship is the
status of being a citizen
1.
4. Volunteer- (noun)person who freely offers to take part in
an enterprise or undertake a task (verb)
freely offer to do something
1.
5. Opportunity – (noun) a
set of circumstances that makes it
possible to do something
Skill Vocabulary
Irregular Verb- verbs you must change the
spelling in order to show past, present, and
future tenses ( ex. Go-went- will go)
Consonant- alphabets that are not vowels
Text Features- charts, graphs, bold letters
and words, headings, glossary, table of
contents, index, They provide extra
information about text
Verb- a word that shows action
( something you are able to do )
Nonfiction- stories and passages based on
real and true events, people, places, and
things