Name: Grade 3 McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders Words to Know - COMPLETE SET
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Practicing Wonders Words to Know is often a bit of a boring task for most students. That's why we made it a bit more fun. First of all, you can guide students through the book along with the vocabulary list. Here it shows the part of speech, the word, the definition and an example sentence. This way, students don't even need their books anymore to practice all of the words at home. Another fun element is the word search. This word search is based on the definitions, so the student is not given the correct answer right away. This way, they really have to dig into their memories to come up with the correct answer. After all of the practicing is done, it is time to do the test. You can present this by first giving the definition and then to let the student fill out the correct answer. The second part is a fill in the blanks exercise.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Match a vocabulary word to its definition using part-of-speech and context clues
Use a target vocabulary word correctly to complete a sentence
Locate vocabulary words within a word-search puzzle using definition clues
Build grade-appropriate vocabulary aligned to the Reading Wonders Grade 3 curriculum across 29 weekly sets

Teaching tips

Introduce the vocabulary-word page, with its definitions and example sentences, before assigning the practice page, since Part 1 asks students to recall each word from its definition alone
Use the word search as an early-week warm-up and the sentence-completion page as a later check for understanding, since both draw on the same eight words in different formats
Grade the practice page quickly with the included answer key rather than building a separate key
Space the 29 weekly sets across the school year to match Reading Wonders Grade 3 pacing, and plan a substitute activity for Unit 3, Week 3, which is not included in this set

Skills covered

Vocabulary acquisition — students learn eight grade-level words per week, each with its part of speech, definition, and example sentence, across 29 weekly sets.
Definition-to-word matching — students recall and write the vocabulary word that matches a given definition.
Contextual sentence completion — students select and write the correct vocabulary word to complete a sentence.
Word-search puzzle solving — students locate vocabulary words in a letter grid using the same definition clues as the practice page.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How many weekly vocabulary sets are included?

Twenty-nine weekly sets covering Units 1 through 6 of the Reading Wonders Grade 3 program; every week is included except Unit 3, Week 3.

How is the word search different from the vocabulary practice page?

It uses the same eight weekly definitions as clues, but instead of writing the matching word on a blank, students search for and locate it hidden in a letter grid.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.L.3.6 — Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domainspecific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
CCSS.L.3.4 — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion). d. Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.