McGraw-Hill Wonders 3rd Grade
Feel free to download and reproduce these materials for your own personal classroom use, but please leave my name at the bottom of each page. Please note that since I don’t have students who use these, there may be a few occasional typos, so let me know if you find any! My kids were always sure to point out my bloopers in the old days and thought they were pretty smart!
I plan to add supplemental activities for each week based on the phonics/spelling skill listed in the matrix. I will also add poems/songs that focus on the phonics skills or lesson vocabulary words.
Let me know if you have other requests for this series:carl1404@msn.com. Since I am a retired reading specialist I don’t have access to the teacher’s manuals, but the matrix is packed with information that will allow me to enrich your program through this web page.
Thanks for providing the opportunity to help you help yourselves and your children. Enjoy!
Cherry Carl
Mc-Graw Hill Wonders 3rd Grade Collection
In an effort to make things more convenient for third grade teachers I decided to create a collection with all of the supplemental materials on it. Unit lessons have a nine page activity packet, phonics and/or spelling practice activities outlined in the third grade matrix and a vocabulary poem for independent practice of high frequency words and/or phonics skills in context. Included in the collection are reproducible instruction sets for word families, r-Controlled vowels, blends, contractions, suffixes, plural nouns, comparative endings, digraphs, diphthongs, and silent letters. Everything will be in individual Unit/Lesson folders for easy access.
Unit/Week
Vocabulary Words
Activity Packet
Supplemental Materials
available on Wonders Third Grade CD
Unit 1
Week 1
ached
concentrate
discovery
educated
effort
improved
inspired
satisfied
Wolf!
Vocabulary Poem:
I Really Have Improved!
Short Vowels a, i
ab Word Family Set 33 pages
ack Word Family Set 39 pages
ad Word Family Set 36 pages
ag Word Family Set 34 pages
am Word Family Set 30 pages
an Word Family Set 37 pages
and Word Family Set 34 pages
ap Word Family Set 36 pages
at Word Family Set 36 pages
ick Word Family Set 33 pages
id Word Family Set 27 pages
ig Word Family Set 29 pages
in Word Family Set 28 pages
ip Word Family Set 32 pages
it Word Family Set 30 pages
Unit 1
Week 2
celebrate
courage
disappointment
precious
pride
remind
symbol
tradition
Yoon and the Jade Bracelet
Vocabulary Poem:
Short Vowels e, o, u
ed Word Family Set 36 pages
ell Word Family Set
en Word Family Set
end Word Family Set
et Word Family Set
ob Word Family Set
ock Word Family Set
og Word Family Set
op Word Family Set
ot Word Family Set
ox Word Family Set
ub Word Family Set
uck Word Family Set
ug Word Family Set
um Word Family Set
ump Word Family Set
un Word Family Set
up Word Family Set
ut Word Family Set
Unit 1
Week 3
admires
classmate
community
contribute
practicing
pronounce
scared
tumble
Gary the Dreamer
Vocabulary Poem:
Dog Dreams
Final e
Adding Silent e to Short a part 1
Adding Silent e to Short a part 2
Adding Silent e to short o part 1
adding Silent e to short o part 2
Unit 1
Week 5
carved
clues
grand
landmark
massive
monument
national
traces
A Mountain of History
Unit 2
Week 2
arrived
immigrated
inspected
moment
opportunity
photographs
valuable
whispered
The Castle on Hester Street
Unit 2
Week 3
announced
candidates
convince
decisions
elect
estimate
government
independent
Vote!
Vocabulary Poem:
Words with Silent Letters
Silent letter gn will also be included on the CD. If you need materials right away, please let me know and I can email some to you.
Unit 2
Week 5
bounce
imagine
inventor
observer
The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters
Digraphs
Consonant Digraph Word Family Sets are available on request on the CD along with a digraph poetry collection.
Poem/Song
A Piece of String
Boxes! Boxes! Boxes!
Unit 3
Week 1
disbelief
dismay
fabulous
features
offered
splendid
unique
watchful
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
r-controlled Vowels
CD files contain support materials for ar, er, ir, or and ur which also include games and songs.
Unit 3
Week 2
amazement
bravery
disappear
donated
leader
nervous
refused
temporary
Finding Lincoln
r-controlled Vowels /ar/ and /or/
See the CD for readers, phonics packets and more!
Poem/Song
President’s Day
Unit 3
Week 3
amount
astronomy
globe
solar system
support
surface
temperature
warmth
Earth
Unit 3
Week 4
effective
example
identical
imitate
material
model
observed
similar
Big Ideas from Nature
Prefixes pre-, dis-, mis-
Unit 3
Week 5
agreeable
appreciate
boomed
descendants
emigration
pioneers
transportation
vehicles
Riding the Rails West
Diphthongs /oi/ and /ou/
oi and oy Set (36 pages)
ound Set
out Set
ow Set
Phonics Poem:
Jump for Joy!
Vocabulary Poem:
Boom Town!
Unit 4
Week 1
aroma
expect
flavorful
graceful
healthful
interrupted
luscious
variety
The Real Story of Stone Soup
Sounds of /ü/ and /ů/
(as in rule or move
and full and put)
Unit 4
Week 2
achievement
apologize
attention
audience
confidence
embarrassed
realized
talents
The Talented Clementine
Plural Words
es Activity Packet
ies Activty Packet
Readers and big books and songs are also available
Plural ies poetry:
Plural Play
Eat Your Veggies!
Pig Pals
Picking Berries
Puppy Play
Springtime Sings
The Bunny Hop
Christmas Cookies
Unit 4
Week 3
alert
competition
environment
excellent
prefer
protection
related
shelter
Amazing Animals of the Mojave
Variant Vowel
/ô/
(as in order)
Unit 4
Week 4
controlled
direction
flight
impossible
launched
motion
passenger
popular
Hot Air Balloons
Poem/Song
Dueling Homophones
(Tune: She’ll Be Coming Around
the Mountain)
Homophones
Hang on Homophones (31 pages)
Unit 4
Week 5
adventurous
courageous
extremely
weird
The Winningest Woman of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race
Poem/Song
Going for the Gold
Tune: Yankee Doodle
I’m a Little Slowpoke!
Tune: I’m a Little Teapot
Soft c and g
Sound of Soft C Set 20 pages
Sound of Soft G Set 20 pages
Unit 5
Week 1
admit
barter
considered
creation
humble
magnificent
payment
reluctantly
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Phonics Focus Poetry
The Compound Connection
(117 pages)
Compound Words:
Compound Word poetry and reproducible activities may be requested from the author.
There are 10 poems that focus on compound words.
Unit 5
Week 2
conservation
discouraged
frustration
gazed
jubilant
recycling
remaining
tinkered
Bravo, Tavo!
Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing, -s
Vocabulary Poem/Song
That’s the Way the Flowers Grow
Unit 5
Week 3
accidental
careless
disasters
equipment
harmful
prevention
purpose
respond
Wildfires
Activity Packet
Closed Syllables
Unit 5
Week 4
citizenship
continued
daring
horrified
participate
proposed
unfairness
waver
Elizabeth Leads the Way
Inflectional Endings y and i
Poem/Song
I Guarantee It!
Unit 5
Week 5
energy
natural
pollution
produce
renewable
replace
sources
traditional
It’s All in the Wind
Activity Packet
Poem/Song
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs!
Tune: Hush, Little Baby
Unit 6
Week 1
alarmed
anguished
necessary
obsessed
possess
reward
treasure
wealth
King Midas and the Golden Touch
Poem/Song
Vowel Teams
(Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
Vowel Teams Syllables
Unit 6
Week 2
argue
astonished
complained
conditions
forbidding
forecast
relief
stranded
Noah’s Ark
Unit 6
Week 3
communicated
essential
goal
motivated
professional
research
serious
specialist
Out of This World! The Ellen Ochoa Story
Poem/Song
Guys From Space
Tune: Polly Wolly Doodle