Scott Foresman Reading Street for 3rd Grade!

The materials below have been created in response to teacher requests to supplement
the 2008 Scott Foresman Reading Street materials.

Word List

Phonics and Vocabulary Focus

Story Activity Packets

Readers, Poems and Games

pick

fetched

mending

skillet

coins

business

laundry

spell

boom

Short vowels

Short vowels VCCV

eat Word Family Set
(36 pages)

oom Word Family Set
(32 pages)

Sentences

Boom Town!
(Unit 1)

Boom Town!
(poem)

knowledge

carpetmaker

thread

plenty

straying

carpenter

marketplace

merchant

Plurals

Plurals -s, -es

Subjects and Predicates

Sentence City Worksheet

What About Me?

rich

college

downtown

nickels

quarters

dimes

fined

Base Words and Endings

Adding -ed, -ing, -er, and -est

Suffix City Set
(adding suffixes)
(26 pages)

Statements and Questions

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Smaller Dollar
(poem)

rich

college

downtown

nickels

quarters

dimes

fined

Base Words and Endings

Adding -ed, -ing, -er, and -est

Suffix City Set
(adding suffixes)
(26 pages)

Statements and Questions

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Smaller Dollar
(poem)

  earned

worth

value

amount

interest

expensive

thousand

check

million

Long Vowel Digraph

Commands and Exclamations

If You Made a Million

If I Made a Zillion Million . . .
(poem)

 excitedly

errands

unwrapped

arranged

steady

wobbled

dangerously

bundles

Vowel Diphthongs

Vowel sounds in outand toy

out Word Family Set
(27 pages)

Compound Sentences

My Rows and Piles of Coins

If I Were a Rich Man
(Poem)

 frozen

flippers

hatch

pecks

snuggles

cuddles

preen

Penguin Chick

Where’s My Mama?
(Poem)

Papa Penguin
(Poem)

Emperor Penguin
Poem and Rhyming Sheets

Roll a Penguin
(math game)

 shivered

motioned

excitement

shocked

slammed

sadness

gardener

A Day’s Work

 collection

realize

shiny

strain

scattered

enormous

Prudy’s Problem and How She Solved It

Collection Affection
(Poem)

 wealth

lazy

clever

partners

bottom

crops

cheated

Tops and Bottoms

Tops and Bottoms
(Poem)

 pegs

spoil

cellar

barrels

clearing

steep

William’s House

 doze

humor

bulbs

recognizing

showers

sprouting

blooming

beauty

The Gardener

 narrator

overhead

imagined

antlers

languages

poked

Pushing Up the Sky

 notepad

flutter

budding

patch

dew

blade

fireflies

Night Letters

blizzards

supplies

surrounded

bay

channel

anxiously

chipped

melody

symphony

A Symphony of Whales

volcanoes

earthquakes

beneath

fireworks

buried

chimney

force

trembles

Volcanoes: Nature’s Incredible Fireworks

swooping

looping

complained

attention

giggle

struggled

glaring

drifting

adding -ing

Suffix City for Wings

Wings

Wings Poem

deserts

peak

depth

average

waterfalls

tides

outrun

Compound Words

Hottest, Coldest,
Highest, Deepest

Hottest! Coldest!
Highest! Deepest!
(Poem)

stamps

spare

customer

attic

board

chores

labeled

Multiple Meaning Words

Rocks in His Head

Rocks in Their Heads?
(Poem)

drowned

medals

current

stirred

stroke

continued

celebrate

Multiple Meaning Words

America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle

Celebrate!
(Poem for Teachers)

Go for the Gold!
(Poem for kids)

reeds

valley

echoed

gully

scrambled

clutched

endings

Fly, Eagle, Fly!
An African Tale

What Are You Waiting For?
(Poem)

cotton

festival

graceful

rhythm

pale

handkerchief

snug

paces

synonyms

Butterfly With Wings
(Poem)

famous

twist

custom

popular

overnight

mention

public

admire

antonyms

How My Family Lives in America

raindrops

memories

farewell

airport

curious

described

homesick

delicious

Compound Words

Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong

bakery

ingredients

knead

dough

batch

braided

boils

mixture

Unfamiliar Words

Jalapeño Bagels

fierce

ruined

flights

stoops

feast

pitcher

treasure

cardboard

Homonyms

Me and Uncle Romie

liberty

models

symbol

crown

torch

tablet

unveiled

unforgettable

The Story of the Statue of Liberty

Sweet Lady Liberty
(poem/song)

narrow

chilly

recipe

bows

perches

foolish

foreign

Happy Birthday, Mr. Kang

Be sure to Google Hua Mei birds and you’ll find some delightful stories and photos about actual Hua Mei Gardens in New York! Share them with your students!

Birthday Wishes for Mr. Kang
(Poem)

Chinese Symbols for Writing Extension

native

settled

expression

local

encourages

support

social

Talking Walls: Art for the People

Walls of Dreams
(Poem)

crystal

discovery

joyful

journey

goal

unaware

scoop

disappeared

Two Bad Ants

glassblower

puffs

Burro

tune

factory

reply

bursts

Elena’s Serenade

Elena’s Serenade
(Poem)