Third Grade Reading & Writing Overview
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Journeys
Unit 1
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Main Selection
A Fine, Fine School
The Trial of Cardigan Jones
Destiny’s Gift
Pop’s Bridge
Paired Selection
One-Room Schoolhouses
Jury Duty
Kids Making a Difference
Bridges
Roberto Clemente, Pride of
the Pittsburgh Pirates
Baseball Poems
Comprehension
Strategy
Comprehension Skill
Summarize
Infer/Predict
Analyze/Evaluate
Infer/Predict
Visualize
Story Structure
Conclusions
Understanding Characters
Compare & Contrast
Cause & Effect
Fluency
Accuracy
Phrasing
Accuracy
Expression
Intonation
principal strolled proud
worried soared
announced fine certainly
Vocabulary Strategies Multiple Meaning Words
convinced trial jury guilty
pointed honest murmur
stand
Compound words
raise spreading earn
figure contacted block
afford customers
Antonyms
stands score fans league
slammed pronounced style
polish
Prefix: mis-
Academic Language
character infer predict
plot solution summarize
conclusion signal words
Phonics Skills
Short vowels: a e i o u
Words with VCCV pattern
crop plan thing smell shut
sticky spent lunch pumpkin
clock gift class skip swing
Long vowels: a e i o u
Words with VCe pattern
spoke mile save excuse
cone invite cube price
erase ripe broke flame
life rule
doze nose use rose pole
close cute woke mule
rode role tune
horse mark storm market
acorn artist march north
barking stork thorn forest
chore restore
infer motive analyze
relationships characters
traits
Vowel pairs: ai ay ee ea
balancing tide crew
disappears foggy stretch
excitement cling
Base words & endings:
-s -es -ed -ing
compare contrast infer
alike similar different
connect
Long o spelled: oa ow
lay real trail sweet today
dream seem tea treat
afraid leave bait screen
speed
spin clap grade swim
place last test skin drag
glide just stage
nurse work shirt hurt first
word serve curly dirt third
worry turn stir firm
load open told yellow
soak shadow foam follow
glow sold window coach
almost throat
next end camp sank sing
drink hunt stand long
stamp pond bring
air wear chair stairs bare
bear hair care pear pair
share near ear beard
slight mild sight pie mind
tie pilot might lie tight
blind fight die midnight
Personal Narrative
paragraph
Voice
Pre-write: Personal
narrative
Ideas
rock black trick kick full
dress neck add spell stuck
class doll
shark check queen circus
flake crack second
squeeze quart squeak
quick coldest Africa
Mexico
Draft/Revise/Edit/Publish:
Personal narrative
Sentence Fluency
Common & proper nouns
Plural nouns with –s -es
Target Vocabulary
Spelling Basic
(also used for Word
Study)
Word Study Struggling
Word Study Advanced
cake mine plate size ate
grape prize wipe race
line pile rake
hole whole its it’s hear
here won one our hour
their there fur fir
Writing
Descriptive paragraph
Friendly Letter
Writing Focus Trait
Word Choice
Ideas
Grammar
Subjects & Predicates
Kinds of Sentences
Sentence Fragments & RunDaily Proofreading Practice
ons
come family father
wanted from could thought wants would sure you
mother school
some
every
Words to know
High frequency
words
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cause effect relationship
Long i spelled: i ie igh
about heard pictures gone people around friends
against
said animals
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Unit 2
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Main Selection
Max’s Words
What do Illustrators Do?
The Harvest Birds
Kamishibai Man
Young Thomas Edison
Paired Selection
Poems that Slither, Walk
and Fly
Question
Jack Draws a Beanstalk
The Farmer and the Dream
The True Story of Kamishibai
Moving Pictures
Analyze/Evaluate
Infer/Predict
Monitor/Clarify
Summarize
Sequence of Events
Text & Graphic Features
Conclusions
Cause and effect
Main ideas and details
Fluency
Rate
Expression
Stress
Intonation
Accuracy
Target Vocabulary
collect ragged scrambled
rapidly orders continued
sorted darted
tracing sketches imagine
research illustrate textures
scribbles tools
harvest separate ashamed
borders advice borrow
patch serious
Vocabulary Strategies
Suffixes –er, -or
Synonyms
Multiple-meaning words
familiar jerky vacant
Signal genius gadget
rickety blurry rude blasted invention laboratory
applause
experiment occasional
electric
Dictionary, glossary entry
Categorize and classify
Academic Language
event sequence of events
question
conclusion draw a conclusion cause effect infer
infer predict
main idea supporting
detail infer topic
Phonics Skills
Words with VCV pattern
Silent letters kn- wr-
Words with –au, -aw, -al, -o
Comprehension
Strategy
Comprehension Skill
Writing
Response Paragraph
Writing Focus Trait
Ideas
text features graphic
features question caption
analyze
Three-letter clusters
scr-, spr-, str-, thrthree throw scrap string
street scrape spring spray
thrill threw scream strong
strange scratch
liked using riding chased
spilled making closed
hoping baked hiding
standing asked
coming swimming dropping
tapping taping invited
saving stared planned
changing joking loved
gripped tasted
Compare/Contrast
Paragraph
Organization
Grammar
What is a Verb?
Verb Tenses
Spelling Basic
(also used for Word
Study)
math cheese toast June
easy elbow socks
program Friday shiny
stuff piles paid sticky
Word Study - Struggling dish than chest such thin
push sine chase white
while these flash
Word Study - Advanced mood wooden drew
smooth blue balloon true
crooked chew tooth
hooves cool food pooch
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Vowel diphthongs –ow, -ou
itch wreck knee patch
wrap knot watch knife
stretch write knew knock
match wrong
I’m don’t isn’t can’t we’ll
it’s I’ve didn’t you’re that’s
wasn’t you’ve
clown round bow cloud
power crown thousand
crowd sound count powder
blouse frown pound
hens eggs ducks bikes
boxes wishes dresses
names bells stamps dishes
grapes
cities cried puppies
singer loudly joyful
hurried stories flies parties teacher fighter closely
tried pennies fried carried powerful farmer quickly
babies spied ponies
careful friendly speaker
wonderful truly
Summary Paragraph
Response to Literature
talk cross awful laws cloth
cost crawl chalk also raw
salt wall lawn always
Word Choice
Organization
Sentence Fluency
Commas in a series
Simple subjects and simple
predicates
Pronouns
pay wait paint train pail
clay tray plain stain hay
gray away
unfold rejoin untie reheat
unfair unclear repaid
rewrite unhurt recheck
unlucky unwrap reuse
unsure
Response to Literature
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Unit 3
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 13
Lesson 14
Lesson 15
Main Selection
Jump!
The Science Fair
Aero and Officer Mike
The Extra-Good Sunday
Paired Selection
Science for Sports Fans
Science Poems
Yonder Mountain: A
Cherokee Legend
The Trail of Tears
Kids and Critters
Tia Luisa’s Fruit Salad
Comprehension
Strategy
Comprehension Skill
Question
Visualize
Analyze/Evaluate
Summarize
Predict/Infer
Fact and Opinion
Story Structure
Compare and Contrast
Author’s Purpose
Understanding Characters
Fluency
Phrasing: Natural Pauses
Stress
Rate
Expression
Target Vocabulary
Championship, professional, Report, presentation,
rooting, competitor, entire, educational, impressive,
power, athlete, court
erupt, creative, certificate,
charts
Suffixes: -y,-ful,-ous
Idioms
Accuracy: Words in
Connected Text
Lying, partners, quiver,
ability, loyal, shift, patrol,
snap
Vocabulary Strategies
Peak, fondly, rugged, mist,
examined, steep, pausing,
pleaded
Homophones/
Homographs
Academic Language
fact, opinion, context, suffix story structure, visualize,
compare, contrast, analyze,
idiom
evaluate, homophones,
homographs
Phonics Skills
Vowel Diphthongs: oi,oy
Homophones, Word Endings: Contractions with n’t,’d,’ve
-er,-le
Spelling Basic
joy, point, voice, join, oil,
hole, whole, its, it’s, hear,
I’d, he’s, haven’t, doesn’t,
(also used for Word
coin, noise, spoil, toy, joint, here, won, one, our, hour,
lets, there’s, wouldn’t, what’s,
Study)
boy, soil, choice, boil
their, there, fur, fir
she’s, aren’t, hasn’t, couldn’t,
he’d, they’re
Word Study - Struggling free, teach, teeth, please,
own, most, soap, float, both, cannot, pancake, maybe,
beach, wheel, team, speak, know, loan, goat, flow, loaf, baseball, playground,
sneeze, sheep, meaning,
throw, coach
someone, myself, classroom,
weave
sunshine, outside, upon,
nothing
Word Study - Advanced painless, sickness, sadness,
person, helmet, until, carpet, jelly, bottom, pillow,
helpless, thankless, kindness, Monday, enjoy, forget,
happen, butter, lesson,
hopeless, darkness,
problem, Sunday, garden,
cherry, sudden, arrow,
fearless, thickness, careless, order, mistake, umpire,
dollar, hello, rabbit, letter,
goodness, spotless, softness herself
button
Writing
Writing Narrate:
Writing Narrate:
Writing Narrate:
Descriptive Paragraph
Humorous Poem
Narrative Poem
Writing Focus Trait
Word Choice: Sensory
Word Choice:
Organization
Words and Details
Onomatopoeia
Grammar
More Plural Nouns
More Proper Nouns
Subject-Verb Agreement
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Prefixes: in-, imauthor’s purpose, infer,
summarize, prefix
Words with ar, or, ore
Anxiously, tense,
recommended, festive, cross,
degrees, ingredients,
remarked
Using a Thesaurus
characters, motive,
motivation, infer, thesaurus,
synonyms
Words with er, ir, ur, or
horse, mark, storm, market,
acorn, artist, March, north,
barking, stork, thorn, forest,
chore, restore
running, clapped, stopped,
hopping, batted, selling,
pinned, cutting, sitting,
rubbed, missed, grabbed
nurse, work, shirt, hurt, first,
word, serve, curly, dirt, third,
worry, turn, stir, firm
taught, thought, rough,
laugh, bought, cough, ought,
caught, fought, daughter,
tough, through, enough,
brought
Writing Narrate:
Autobiography
Ideas: Choosing an
Important Event and Purpose
Pronouns and Verbs
apple, river, little, October,
ladder, summer, purple, late,
November, giggle, uncle,
winter, center, double
night, kind, spy, child, light,
find, right, high, wild, July,
fry, sigh
Writing Narrate:
Autobiography
Voice: Using Details That
Show Thoughts and Feelings
Forming the Past Tense
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Unit 4
Lesson 16
Lesson 17
Lesson 18
Lesson 19
Lesson 20
Main Selection
A Mr. Rubbish Mood
A Tree is Growing
Dogzilla
Life on the Ice
Paired Selection
Comprehension
Strategy
Comprehension Skill
Fluency
Target Vocabulary
Save the Rain Forest
Monitor/Clarify
The Albertosaurus Mystery:
Philip Currie’s Hunt in the
Badlands
Finding Fossils for For Fun
Visualize
Poems about Nature
Question
Whose Land Is It?
Summarize
The Raven: An Inuit Myth
Infer/Predict
Author’s Purpose
Intonation
Recycle, project, dripping,
carton, complicated, global,
rubbish, hardly, shade,
pollution
Conclusions
Stress
Clues, remains, evidence,
prove, fossils, skeletons,
uncovering, buried, fierce,
location
Text and Graphic Features
Expression
Pollen, store, clumps,
passages, absorb,
throughout, coverings, spines,
tropical, dissolve
Main Ideas and Details
Phrasing
Shelter, layer, constant,
climate, wilderness, region,
unexpected, gliding,
overheated, colony
Vocabulary Strategies
Context Clues
Suffix –ly
Categorize and Classify
Cause and Effect
Rate
Fiery, within, scientific,
ancient, mysterious,
emergency, panicking,
horrifying, prehistoric,
immediately
Prefixes pre-, re-, bi-
Academic Language
Author’s purpose, theme,
monitor, author’s viewpoint,
context
Conclusion, generalization,
suffix
Text features, graphic
features, question,
Cause, effect, infer
Phonics Skills
Words with air, ear, are
Words with /k/ and /kw/
Vowel Sounds in spoon and
wood
Mood, wooden, drew,
smooth, blue, balloon, true,
crooked, chew, tooth,
hooves, cool, food, pooch
Main idea, supporting
detail, text structure,
dictionary entry, part of
speech, word ending
Compound Words
Spelling Basic
(also used for Word
Study)
Words with /j/ and /s/;
Words with VCCCV Pattern
Air, wear, chair, stairs,
Age, space, change,
bare, bear, hair, care,
jawbone, jacket, giant,
pear, pair, share, near, ear, pencil, circle, once, large,
beard
dance, jeans, bounce, huge
Word Study - Struggling Happy, pretty, baby, very,
puppy, funny, carry, lucky,
only, sunny, penny, city
Word Study - Advanced West, steep, member,
gleam, fresh, freedom,
speed, steam, beast,
believe, speck, kept, cheap,
pretend, greed, shelf, least,
eager, reason, chief
Writing
Write to Persuade
Car, dark, arm, star, park,
yard, party, hard, farm,
start, part, spark
Skill, crime, grind, tonight,
brick, flight, live, chill,
delight, build, ditch, decide,
witness, wind, district, inch,
sigh, fright, remind, split
Write to Persuade
Birthday, anyone, sometimes,
everything, homework,
afternoon, airplane,
grandmother, something,
without, himself, faraway,
sunburned, daylight
Horn, story, fork, score, corn, Father, over, under, herd,
Meet, meat, week, weak,
morning, shore, short, born,
water, verb, paper, cracker, main, mane, tail, tale, be,
tore, forget
offer, cover, germ, master
bee, too, two
Block, shown, oatmeal,
Wait, weight, heard, herd,
Bunch, fruit, argue, crumb,
wrote, fellow, scold, coast,
days, daze, heel, heal,
crew, tune, juice, refuse,
odd, locate, slope, throat,
peak, peek, sent, cent, scent, truth, young, clue, trunk,
host, online, shock, solve,
feet, feat, vain, vane, vein,
amuse, suit, rude, trust, dew,
known, remote, stock, boast, miner, minor
stuck, rescue, brush
globe
Write to Persuade
Write to Persuade
Write to Persuade
Writing Focus Trait
Ideas
Voice
Word Choice
Ideas
Organization
Grammar
Adjectives
Adjectives and Articles
Verb be and Helping Verbs
Irregular Verbs
Contractions
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Shark, check, queen, circus,
flake, crack, second,
squeeze, quart, squeak,
quick, coldest, Africa,
Mexico
Dictionary/Glossary
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Unit 5
Lesson 21
Lesson 22
Lesson 23
Lesson 24
Lesson 25
Main Selection
Two Bad Ants
Poems About Bugs
Monitor/Clarify
The Journey of Oliver K.
Woodman
Moving the U.S. Mail
Analyze/Evaluate
Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves
Paired Selection
Comprehension
Strategy
Comprehension Skill
The Journey: Stories of
Migration
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Visualize
The Land Volcanoes Built
Question
Mountains: Surviving on Mt.
Everest
The Big Cleanup
Infer/Predict
Story Structure
Compare and Contrast
Sequence of Events
Author’s Purpose
Text and Graphic Features
Fluency
Intonation
Rate
Accuracy
Expression
Sincere, managed, loaded,
loveliest, terror,
conversations, inspired,
reunion, currently, pleasure
Suffixes –er, -est
Guided, arrival, twisted,
anchor, bay, rippled,
voyage, aboard, spotted,
lava
Words from other
Languages
author’s purpose, word
origin
Approached, avalanche,
equipment, slopes, succeed,
section, increase, tanks,
altitude, halt
Analogies
Prefixes un-, pre-, re-, bi-
Suffixes –less, -ness, -able
unfold, rejoin, untie, reheat,
unfair, unclear, repaid,
rewrite, unhurt, recheck,
unlucky, unwrap, reuse,
unsure
root, crew, spoon, few,
bloom, grew, room, you,
stew, boost, scoop, flew
painless, sickness, sadness,
helpless, thankless, kindness,
hopeless, darkness, fearless,
thickness, careless, goodness,
spotless, softness
took, books, foot, hoof, cook,
nook, hood, wood, stood,
shook, crook, cookbook
learn, dirty, worn, sore,
thirst, burn, record, cure,
board, course, worth, early,
return, pure, world, search,
worse, thirteen, sport, current
somebody, fireplace,
nearby, toothbrush,
homesick, make-believe,
anything, all right, goodbye,
forehead, classmate,
flashlight, haircut, twentytwo, driveway, alarm clock,
baby-sit, airport, forever,
mailbox
Write to Express: Fictional
Narrative
Word Choice: Choosing
Strong Words
What is a Preposition?
Phrasing: Attention to
Punctuation
Target Vocabulary
Scout, surrounded, puzzling, Survival, plenty, accidents,
violently, soggy, unaware, chilly, thunderous, migrate,
narrow, underground,
frightening, solid, landscape,
glassy, liquid
dramatic
Vocabulary Strategies
Base Words and prefix
Prefixes in-, imnonAcademic Language
setting, plot, characters,
compare, contrast, prefix
monitor/clarify, base word,
prefix
Phonics Skills
Base Words and –ed, -ing Spelling Changes -s, -es, ed,- ing Less Common Plurals
Spelling Basic
coming, swimming,
cities, cried, puppies,
(also used for Word
dropping, tapping, taping, hurried, stories, flies, parties,
Study)
invited, saving, stared,
tried, pennies, fried, carried,
planned, changing, joking, babies, spied
loved, gripped, tasted
Word Study - Struggling helpful, sadly, hopeful,
unhappy, retell, unchanged,
thankful, slowly, wishful,
unkind, repaint, refill, unlike,
kindly, useful, safely,
remake, unpack, reread,
painful, mouthful, weakly
unlock, replay
Word Study - Advanced bloom, cookbook, tool,
aloud, bald, hawk, south,
shampoo, put, wool, stool,
faucet, proud, claw, tower,
proof, prove, group, brook, stalk, couple, howl, false,
foolish, bush, crooked,
dawn, allow, drown, pause,
booth, raccoon, hook,
fault, cause, amount, cloudier
groom, roof, soup
Writing
Writing Focus Trait
Write to Express: Fictional
Narrative
Ideas: Building Suspense
Grammar
Possessive Nouns &Pronouns Using Proper Nouns
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sequence of events,
summarize, base word,
suffix
Suffixes –ful, -y, -ous, -ly, er
singer, loudly, joyful,
teacher, fighter, closely,
powerful, farmer, quickly,
careful, friendly, speaker,
wonderful, truly
tall, saw, dog, draw, call,
fall, soft, paw, paw, ball,
yawn, low, small
spark, prepare, cheer, tear,
scarf, scare, repair, earring,
scarce, weird, sharp, rear,
spare, gear, hairy, compare,
alarm, harsh, upstairs,
square
Write to Express: Descriptive Write to Express: Dialogue
Paragraph
Word Choice: Simile
Voice: Characters’ Feelings
Abbreviations
Write to Express:
Narrative
Ideas: Vivid Details
What is an Adverb?
text features, graphic
features, analogy
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Third Grade Reading & Writing Overview
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Unit 6
Lesson 26
Lesson 27
Lesson 28
Lesson 29
Lesson 30
Main Selection
Paired Selection
Comprehension
Strategy
Comprehension Skill
Fluency
Target Vocabulary
Vocabulary Strategies
Academic Language
Phonics Skills
Spelling Basic
(also used for Word
Study)
Word Study - Struggling
Word Study - Advanced
Writing
Writing Focus Trait
Grammar
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