This Week in 3rd Grade
Week of September 6th – 9th
Comprehension Skill:
Phonics Skill:
Illustrations and Compare & Contrast Texts
Forming Comparative &
Superlative Adjectives
Learning Targets:
 Identify theme, setting, and plot in a text
 Explain how illustrations contribute to what is conveyed
through words and creating mood in a text
 Compare how themes, settings, and plots are similar by the
same author or similar characters
 Contrast how themes, settings, and plots are different by the
same author or similar characters
Math:
Language/Grammar:
Apply properties of operations as
strategies to multiply and divide.
Vocabulary:
array
factor
times
multiplication
multiply
equal groups
product
repeated addition
quotient
dividend
divisor
unknown factor
commutative associative
distributive
Comparative & Superlative
Adjectives:
Comparative Adjectives compare
two nouns. Superlative Adjectives
compare three or more nouns. (See
rules)
Parts of Speech Review:
nouns (concrete vs. abstract)
verbs
adjectives
Science:
Important Dates:
Landforms
Learning Targets:

examine major physical and political
features on globes and maps, including
mountains, plains, plateaus, mesas,
buttes deserts, deltas, islands,
peninsulas, basins, canyons, valleys,
bays, streams, gulfs, straits, canals, seas,
boundaries, cities, highways, roads, and
railroads.
Sept. 10: Boro International Day @
Cannonsburg
Sept. 13: Charger Night!!!
Sept 14: CLA T-shirt Orders Due by 7:30
Sept 15: ½ Day (Dismissal @ 11:00)
Reminder: Please do not drop
students off before 7:10, as this is a
safety issue.
Vocabulary Words:
tropical - hot part of the world, near the equator
hatchlings - offspring that has recently hatched from an egg
ventured - to take a risk in order to achieve a goal
frantic - wild, hysterical
plummeting - falling
Rules for Forming
Comparative & Superlative
Adjectives
 double the final consonant
and add the suffix (thin,
thinner, thinnest; mad,
madder, maddest)
 drop the e and add the
vowel suffix (nice, nicer,
nicest; brave, braver,
bravest)
 consonant y, change the y
to I and add suffix (curly,
curlier, curliest; happy,
happier, happiest)
Students must know the rules
& be able to change singular
nouns to their plural form.
Writing Focus:
Writing a Personal Narrative
A Personal Narrative is the
recounting of a memory or
event in sequential order.