Unit 1
Milleville 3rd Grade Studyguide
1.1
Phonics Skill:
Reading Story: First Day Jitters
Short Vowels
Spelling Words:
/a/ as in apple
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clap
step
sick
rock
luck
crop
snack
mess
head
shut
miss
stamp
jump
click
pond
Comprehension Skill:
/e/ as in egg and head
/i/ as in insect
Character, Setting, Plot
/o/ as in octopus
A story’s structure is made up of the characters,
setting and plot.
/u/ as in umbrella and touch
Characters are people in the story.
Vocabulary Words:
1.
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5.
Challenge Words:
16. bathtub
nervous - worried
fumbled – clumsy or awkward
chuckled – laugh
nonsense – silly
trudge – walking slowly or
dragging one’s feet
The setting is where and when the story takes
places.
Plot events tell what characters do at the
beginning, middle and end of the story.
To understand the story you can tell the story’s
events in order.
17. anthill
RL3.3 Describe characters in a story and how
their actions contribute to the sequence of
events
Spelling Words:
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date
fine
rose
lake
life
home
safe
rice
globe
plane
wise
smoke
grade
smile
come
Challenge Words
Milleville 3rd Grade Studyguide
1.2
Phonics Skill: Final e
Reading Story: Amazing Grace
a_e as in cane
e_e as in Steve
i_e
Comprehension Skill:
as in bite
o_e as in robe
Character Trait:
u_e as in cute
Vocabulary Words:
It’s who a character is on
Auditions – tryouts
the inside;-their personality.
Adventure – journey
Character traits show through what a
Exploring – search
character says or does.
16. sneeze
Sparkling – shiny
17. escape
Fantastic- amazing
Character Emotions:
Success – win
Fleeting feelings a character may be
having, often due to an outside force.
Character’s emotions show through what they say
and do.
Milleville 4th grade studyguide
1.3
Kid Reporters At Work
Vocabulary Words
Identify – you recognized it
Enterprising – you are full of ideas and willing to try things.
Persistence – keep trying even when you encounter problems.
Spelling
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beam
tea
chief
squeak
three
week
sleek
heal
tease
theif
deal
please
leak
league
reef
deed
feet
breathe
speech
wheeze
freedom
appeal
Venture – a project that involves some risk taking.
Phonics
Long E
ea as in sea
Additional Selection Words
ee as in tree
Promote – move forward, improve, advance
e_e as in Steve
ie as in brief
Priority – importance, urgency, necessity
Devastation- causing great ruin, extremely destructive
e as in me
Commitment – sense of duty, dedication
ey as in monkey
y as in funny
Common Core Reading Standard
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported
by key details, summarize the text.
Milleville Studyguide
Spelling Words:
fail, bay, pail, ray, plain, tray, trail,
Unit 1.3
Earth Smart
Phonics Skill
Vocabulary words
may, braid, sway, gray, plays, paint,
snail, great.
ay as in play
ai as in tail
Donate – give time or money to help
other people
a_e as in face
a as in table
Unaware – don’t know something is
happening.
ea as in great
Members- part of a group
eigh as in weigh
Contribute- work with a group to reach
a common goal.
Unit 1.4
Wolf!
Vocabulary Words:
Challenge Words: lady, afraid
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Phonics Skill:
Spelling Words:
gold, bowl, soak, sold, snow, loaf,
roast, coast, scold, coal, slow, grows, O as in no and cold
show, float, blow
Ow as in low
O_e as in low
Challenge Words:
Oa as in boat
window, program
Passion – strong feeling
Admire- respect or think well about a
person
Concentrate- think very carefully
about what your doing.
Splendid- good or excellent
Bother- annoying or mainking
someone unhappy.
Oe as in toe
Ached- hur with a constant or dull pain
Milleville 3rd grade Studyguide
Spelling Words:
Unit 1.5
Phonics Skill:
Igh as in night
Mild, sky, pie, might, find, fight, tied,
right, fry, tight, child, flight, bright, buy,
dye
Ie as in pie
My Very Own Room
Vocabulary Words:
Separate- keep apart
Determination- decided to do something
even though it may be difficult.
I as in child and mind
Storage- place where things are kept.
Challenge Words:
I_e as in ride
Exact- completely correct
Wind, children
Y as in fly
Ruined- destroyed
Luckiest- most luck of anyone.
Unit 2
2.1 Boom Town
Milleville 3rd Grade Studyguide
Phonics Skill: Long E
Reading Vocabulary Words:
ea as in sea
Sidewalks – paths placed next to a
Spelling Words
road.
heel creek clean seal speaks cream weak team street
week free freeze bean green field
ee as in tree
Grumbled – complain in a low voice
Review Words
e_e as in Steve
Traders – people who buy and sell
right pie child
ie as in Brief
things
e as in me
Blossomed - grown or developed
ey as in monkey
Wailed – long sad cry
y as in funny
Lonesome- alone, lonely
Challenge Words
sixteen peanut
3rd grade Milleville studyguide
Spelling Words:
2.2
Home Grown Butterflies
Vocabular
Phonics y
: Silent
Letters
disappear
– can no
kn as in longer see
know
wrap wrote know knit knight wring gnat sign gnaws wrists knock write knots wreck wron
protect –
g
mb as in keep from
lamb
getting
hurt or
rh as in damaged
Review
rhyme
harminggn as in causing
Week speaks field
gnat or damage
sign
supplyamount
bt
as
in
Challenge
available
debt
wristwatch knapsack
mn as in capture –
catch and
hymn
hold it
wr as in
enclosure
write
- area with
a wall or
gh as in fence
around it.
ghost
l as in
calf
3rd Grade Milleville Studyguide
2.3
Go West!
Vocabulary
culture –
customs and
Phonics beliefs
: 3letter
communitie
Blends s – groups of
Spelling Words:
thread scratch spray scrubs spread throw spree throne strong screams three scraped
street screens strength
people living
scr as in together in
scrape one place
str as in immigrantsstream people who
move from
spr as in one country
spring to live in
another
country
spl as in
splash
establishedsomething
thr as in you started
three
Review
sign wrote knight
Challenge
streamer scribble
traditional –
passed
down from
one
generation to
the next.
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2.4
Here’s My
Dollar
Vocabulary
Spelling Words
Phonics: Diagra
phs
tour- short
chick hatch whales much cheese fish pitch stretch what teacher thick them lun
trip to a
ch truth pathway
th as in thumb,
place of
then
interest with
a guide
ch, tch as in
volunteers-
Review
cheese, pitch
stream three scribble
dge as in edge
sh as in shell
Challenge
wh as in whale
sandwich weather
ng as in sing
ph as in phone
people who
do a job for
free
thrilledvery excited
or happy
sloganeasy to
remember
phrase used
in
advertiseme
nts
deservehave the
right to it
Castle On Viola Street
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Spelling Words
2.5
Castle on Viola Street
Phonics: contractions
Is not = isn’t
he’d there’s we’re she’d you’re couldn’t that’s were not = weren’t
wasn’t I’ve what’s we’ll didn’t won’t isn’t
they’re
has not = hasn’t
I would = I’d
Review
teacher fish pathway
will not = won’t
shouldn’t wouldn’t
project – a plan or activity
appliances – machines in
homes
owners- people to whom
something belongs
construction- act of building
something
I am – I’m
he will = he’ll
Challenge
Vocabulary
we have = we’ve
equipment – tools and
materials needed to do a job
leaky – has a hole so that water
passes through it
should have = should’ve
he would = he’d
you are = you’re
I have = I’ve
3rd Grade Unit 3 Studyguides
Milleville 3rd Grade Studyguide
3.1 Author: A True Story
Vocabulary:
Spelling Words:
Turns, first, herds, learn, purr, third,
earn, nurse, perch, girls, firm, word,
world, serve, worth
Talented: able to do something well
Single- only one
Phonics: r controlled vowels
Proper- correct or right
ir as in shirt
Review Words:
ur as in burn
He’d, wasn’t, didn’t
Excitement- happy because
something good has happened or will
happen.
er as in her
Challenge Words:
Acceptance-agreement or saying yes
to something.
Perfect, Thursday
Useful- object helps you do
something.
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3.2 Dear Juno
Vocabulary:
Spelling Words:
bark, chore, porch, yard, sore, hard,
shorts, wore, pour, sport, sharks,
storms, sharp, carve, story
Phonics: r controlled vowels
Review Words:
or as in storm
first, third, nurse
oar as in soar
Challenge Words:
are as in wore
orchard, artist
ar as in star
Crackle- small, sharp, snapping noise
Announced- told to people ina loud or
an official way.
Soared- flew high in the air
Starry – sky full of stars at night
Noticed- seen or observed
Milleville 3rd Grade Studyguide 3.3 Message Mania
Spelling Words:
misfile, unwanted, recycle,
undone, presale, misread,
recall, precut, unload,
misnumber, unfair, mistreat,
unhappy, retold, preplan
Phonics: Prefixes
Review Words:
pre- as in preview pre means before
hard, porch, carve
mis- as in misplace mis means wrong
Challenge Words:
dis- as in disagree dis means not
Vocabulary:
re- as in rewrite
re means again
Estimate – good guess
un- as in undone
un means not
Record – better than anyone has ever
done before
Focus- concentrate all your energy on
someone or something
prejudge, uncertain
Milleville 3rd Grade Studyguide
3.4 What Do Illustrators Do?
Vocabulary:
Spelling Words:
Instance- example of something
coy, soil, foil, toil, coins, point, noise,
loyal, boiled, spoiled, enjoys, voice,
choice, soybean, joyful,
Phonics: Diphthong /oi/
Review Words:
oi as in coin
Style – particular way of doing
something
unhappy, retold, mistold
oy as in boy
Texture – how it looks or feels
Challenge Words:
Illustrate- draw
Sketches- rough drawings
noisy, checkpoint
Suggestions- offer ideas or plans
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3.5 The Jones Family Express
Spelling Words:
Phonics: Variant Vowels
loop, rude, look, clue, spoon, tube,
shook, blue, cubes, goose, mules,
gloom, true, shoe, stew
oo as in book
Review Words:
oo as in soon
enjoy, soil, noise
ew as in grew
ou as in could
Vocabulary:
Annual – happens once a year
Potential – capable of becoming
something
Expensive- costs a lot of money
Politely – good manners
Challenge Words:
u_e as in rude
Wrapping – cover something
classroom, childhood
ue as in clue
Innocent – does no harm, not guilty
u as in July
ui as in ruit
ou as in through
Unit 4
3rd Grade
4.2
Nacho and Lolita
Reading Vocabulary:
affection- a feeling of love
or attachment for someone
or something
Spelling Words:
Phonics Skill:
years, twins, trays, states,
ashes, foxes, inches, flies,
cities, ponies, bunches,
alleys, lunches, cherries,
daisies
Challenge Words:
Decode multisyllabic plural
words
Examples: chickens,
properties, communities,
ponies, princesses,
monkeys
heroes, libraries
pleaded-begging for
something
exhausted-very, very tired
guarantee-to promise
something will happen
preparations-getting
things ready for a specific
event
brilliance-it is sparkly and
shiny
3rd Grade
4.3
A Growing Interest
Phonics Skill: Variant
Vowels
Spelling Words:
yawn, taught, salt, lawn,
halls, hauls, hawks,
squawk, bought, bawls,
drawing, caused, paused,
crawled, coughing
Challenge Words:
walrus, autumn
au, aw, alt, alk, all, ough
Examples:
au as in haul
aw as in hawk
alt as in salt
alk as in talk
all as in ball
Reading Vocabulary:
awareness-when you have
awareness of a problem,
you know about it
pollution-dirt or garbage in
the environment
emphasize-to point out
something so other people
will notice
utilize-when you make
good use of something
ough as in cough
3rd Grade
4.4
Ramona and Her Father
Reading Vocabulary;
Spelling Words:
sale, sail, beet, beat, rode,
road, rowed, its, it’s, your,
you’re, there, they’re,
peace, piece
Challenge Words:
seen, scene
Phonics Skill:
Homophones (words that
sound alike, but are spelled
differently and have
different meanings)
Examples:
bear vs. bare
The bear roamed through
the forest.
I put my bare feet in the
water.
anxious-when you are
worried or nervous about
something
cross-angry
managed-to have been in
charge of planning,
organizing, and running a
particular event
alarmed-something or
someone caused you to
feel frightened
pretend-to imagine or
make believe something is
happening
unfortunately-unluckily
3rd Grade
4.5
Out of This World!
Reading Vocabulary:
Spelling Words:
Phonics Skill: Soft c and g
(when the letter c or g is
followed by the letters e, I,
or y, the sounds change. C
/s/, and g /j/
cell, gems, age, place,
gyms, city, cents, price,
space, nice, giant,
changes, pages, gentle,
message
Examples:
Challenge Words:
gem
giraffe, celebrate
ginger
communicate-using
words, gestures, or
pictures to express yourself
to others
responsible-if you are
responsible for something,
you are in charge of
making sure it gets done
center
circle
specialist-a person who
has trained or studied to
become an expert at a
particular subject
cycle
research-investigate and
study materials to learn
new things
gym
essential-necessary
decisions-choices you are
making
Unit 5
Penguin Chick
5.1
Spelling Words:
Phonics Skill: compound words
Vocabulary:
airplane, daytime, birthday, daylight,
hairdo, notebook, birdhouse, barefoot,
Ex: baseball, eyelid, hilltop, etc.
headlight, sometime, someone,
newspaper, sidewalks, basketball,
stagecoach
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Challenge Words:
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somebody, handwriting
Animal Homes
Vocabulary:
5.2
Spelling Words:
Phonics Skill: Inflectional Endings (es, -ed, -ing) y à i
tries, tried, trying, dries, dried, drying,
hurries, hurried, hurrying, studies,
studied, studying, plays, played,
playing
Ex:
Challenge Words:
obeyed, worrying
5.3
Spelling Words:
basket, rabbit, napkin, letter, invite,
bedtime, mammal, number, fellow,
chapter, follow, problem, chicken,
butter, Sunday
Fierce-very strong or violent
Echoes-when you make a
noise and the sound is
repeated
Shuffles-walks without lifting
his or her feet off the ground
Huddle-a group of animals or
people gathered close
together
Junior-younger or smaller
Down-fine, soft feathers on a
bird
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carry à carries
hurry à hurried
dry à dried
copy à copying
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architects-people who
design houses and other
buildings
contain-to hold or include
structures-buildings, bridges,
towers, and monuments
retreats-turns back, usually
because of danger or a
difficult situation ahead
shallow-not deep
shelter-something that
protects or covers
Call of the Wild
Phonics Skill: closed syllables (when Vocabulary:
syllables end in a consonant and have
a short vowel sound)
 crucial-very important
 adjust-make a change
 survive-someone or
something manages to stay
Ex:
alive through a hard time
 source-the place where
something starts
 com as in comics
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Challenge Words:
den as in dental
ex as in exit
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splendid, complete
unpredictable-you cannot tell
if or when something will
happen
Wilbur’s Boast
Vocabulary:
5.4
Spelling Words:
names, named, naming, hopes,
hoped, hoping, dances, danced,
dancing, drops, dropped, dropping,
wraps, wrapped, wrapping
Phonics Skill: inflectional endings (-s,
-es, -ing, -ed)
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Ex: looks
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saving
Challenge Words:
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breathed
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driving, traded
conversation-friendly talk
interrupted-something is to
have stepped in and stopped
it
boasting-speaking with too
much pride about yourself
scrambled-have climbed or
moved quickly
seized-taken hold of
something suddenly
rebuild-something is to build
it again
Unique Animals of the Southwest
Vocabulary:
5.5
Phonics Skill: Open syllables (when a
syllable ends in a vowel)
Spelling Words:
pilot, diner, tiger, favor, lemon, planet,
model, shady, robot, tiny, label, cozy,
silent, spider, frozen
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Ex:
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Challenge:
melon, stomach
baby à ba by
moment à mo ment
native à na tive
focus à fo cus
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related-belonging to the
same family
female-a species that has
specific characteristics that
are different from the male
species
identical-two things are
exactly the same
sight-the ability to see
odor-something smells
strongly
venom-a poisonous liquid
Unit 6
3rd Grade Studyguide
Spelling Words:
Unit 6.1
Stone Soup
Phonics: Prefixes
Reading Vocabulary:
untied, repay, disagree, Re- as in reprint
preheat, unafraid, return,
preschool, dislike,
Re- means again
Guests – visitor
Un- as in unhappy
disappear, resell,
precook, prepay,
unbeaten, reprint, unwrap Pre- as in prepare
Un- means not
Banquet – large meal
Pre – means before
Agreeable- pleasant, nice
Review Words:
De- as in defrost
De- means opposite
Curiosity – interesting because it is
strange or unusual.
tiger, planet, spider,
Dis- as in disappear
Dis- means apart
Untrusting- don’t trust or believe
Challenge Words:
Gaze – long steady look
unlucky, recover
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Unit 6.2
Spelling Words:
Phonics: Final Stable Syllables
able, purple, riddle, handle, towel,
eagle, puzzle, castle, little, nickel,
camel, pickle, travel, tunnel, squirrel
-le as in stable
-ion as in action
Review Words:
-ble as in grumble
dislike, return, unwrap
-el as in nickel
Challenge Words:
-al as in global
motel, couple
3rd Grade Studyguide
Spelling Words:
The Strongest One
Reading Vocabulary:
Decorated – made prettier
Symbol – picture or shape that stands
for something else.
Darkened- made darker
Gnaws – bother, chew
Securing – fastening firmly
Weakest – least strong
Unit 6.3
Phonics: Vowel teams
main – remain
Tales of Trickster
Reading Vocabulary:
about, allowing, appear, wayward,
coffee, complain, enjoyed, explaining, outh – southwest
poison, remain, repeat, unreal,
unclear, reading, detail
lead – mislead
Insightful – think about things in a
new way.
Review Words:
low – below
Majority – more than half
able, puzzle, pickle
ight – delight
Investigate – look into something to
find more information.
Challenge Words:
heav – heavy
fourteen, holiday
oon – cartoon
Technique – way of doing something
Cunning – smart and good at fooling
others
oi – toiling
oy - joyful
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Unit 6.4
Phonics: R controlled vowel
syllables
Cook-a-doodle-doo!
cir as in circus
Reading Vocabulary:
Spelling Words:
mer as in mermaid
sister, sailor, dollar, toaster, winter,
mar as in market
doctor, layer, dancer, mayor, writer,
silver, cellar, trailer, December, author
bur as in burden
Review Words:
about, explaining, repeat
Challenge Words:
circular, editor
ar as in armor
ber as in timber
tradition – relief or custom that is
handed down from generation to
generation.
magnificent – wonderful
ingredient – one of the parts of a
mixture.
tor as in tractor
recipes – list of ingredients and
directions for making food.
ter as in water
tasty – good flavor
lor as in tailor
lar as in molar
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Spelling Words:
Unit 6.5
One Riddle, One Answer
Reading Vocabulary:
careful, cheerful, helpful, colorful,
harmful, peaceful, pitiful, painless,
priceless, helpless, sleepless,
rainless, helplessly, carefully,
peacefully
Phonics: Suffixes
Depart – leave, go away
-ful means full of
Suitable – just right
-less means without
Increase – gets bigger and bigger
-ly means characteristic of
Observed – look at carefully
-able means able to
Advised - told what you should do.
Review Words:
doctor, dollar, December
Challenge Words:
Discouraged – lose hope
wonderful, cloudless