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Long i Spellings Roberto Clemente

Spelling:
Long i Spellings
Write a Basic Word to answer each question.
Spelling Words
1. If you were eating a round dessert with a flaky crust,
Basic
what would you be eating? 1. slight
2. What is the opposite of loose? 2. mild
3. sight
3. What is the time when one day ends and another 4. pie
begins? 5. mind
6. tie
4. What would a man wear around his neck if he was 7. pilot
getting dressed up? 8. might
9. lie
5. If you did not tell the truth, what did you tell?
10. tight
11. blind
12. fight
6. Who flies a plane?
13. die
7. What do you think with? 14. midnight

8. What does a boxer have to do? Review

find
night
Challenge
silent
frightening

Spelling 66 Grade 3, Unit 1

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Prefix mis-
Roberto Clemente

Vocabulary Strategies:
Prefix mis-
Read the letter. Notice the underlined words. Write a reply
to this letter. Use at least four of the underlined words in
your letter.

Dear Friend,
I did not mean to misbehave or to mistreat you.
I thought it was funny when someone mispronounced your
name. I didn’t think it would upset you, but I can see that
I miscalculated that. If someone said I did not want to be
your friend, then they are misinformed. Can we please
forget about this misunderstanding?
Your friend

Vocabulary Strategies 67 Grade 3, Unit 1

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Commas in Sentences
Roberto Clemente

Grammar:
Spiral Review

• Commas are used in a date or when listing city and

state in a sentence.
• Commas are also used when combining sentences
and when using nouns or verbs in a series.
On June 3, 1973, in Chicago, Illinois, they played
baseball, football, and soccer.

Rewrite each sentence with a comma where it belongs in a date

or a place.
1. They loaded the plane bringing supplies on December 29 1972.

2. It was headed for Managua Nicaragua.

Combine each group of sentences. Put the nouns or verbs in a

series with commas. Write the new sentence.

3. The plane carried food. The plane carried water.

The plane carried supplies.

4. A pilot was onboard. A baseball star was onboard.

A helper was onboard.

Grammar 68 Grade 3, Unit 1

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READER’ S NOTEBOOK
Name Date

Proofreading for Spelling

Roberto Clemente

Spelling:
Long i Spellings
Find the misspelled words and circle them.
Spelling Words
Plane Has Narrow Escape
A brave pielot saved the lives of her passengers Basic
yesterday when she saved an airplane from crashing. 1. slight
Captain Jo Ann Foster was flying at 35,000 feet 2. mild
at midnite when her plane began to rock. There was 3. sight
only a sliet wind, so she knew her plane was in trouble. 4. pie
An engine was out, and the plane was sinking. Not 5. mind
only that, but thick fog made her have to fly blighnd. 6. tie
She was in a tite spot. 7. pilot
Captain Foster quickly thought of things she mite 8. might
do. Different ideas went through her miend. She 9. lie
would have to fite to guide her plane to safety. 10. tight
“I felt some miled fear,” she said later, “but I was 11. blind
mainly thinking of how to save the plane and the 12. fight
13. die
passengers.”
14. midnight
She found the nearest airport on the map and
steered toward it. Finally, the airport came in siet. Review
Captain Foster made a perfect landing, and find
147 passengers were safe. night
Challenge
Write the misspelled words correctly on the lines below. silent
frightening
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

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Connect to Writing
Roberto Clemente

Grammar:
Connect to Writing
Using the correct spelling of plural nouns makes your
writing clearer and easier to understand. Add -s to form
the plural of most singular nouns. Add -es to form the
plural of a singular noun that ends with s, sh, ch, or x.

Sentences With Singular Nouns Sentences with Correct Plural

That Should be Plural Nouns Nouns
The baseball player tried two bat The baseball player tried two
before choosing one. bats before choosing one.
The teams sat on two bench. The team sat on two benches.

Circle the singular noun that should be plural in each sentence.

Then write the sentence using the plural spelling of the noun.

1. The fans rode to the baseball game in ten bus.

2. Most of the fans have already been to a few game this year.

3. Juan and Mary took their baseball glove to the game.

4. The pitcher made two great catch.

5. Another player made two good toss to first base.

Grammar 70 Grade 3, Unit 1

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Name Date

VCV Words with Long and

Bat Loves the Night
Phonics: Words with the
VCV Pattern
Short Vowels
Read each sentence. Choose the missing word from the box.
Write the word. Then reread the complete sentence.

visit robot flavor

tiny limit shiver
report decide gravel

1. We took a bumpy ride down a

road in the country.
2. Chocolate is my favorite of ice cream.

3. I the amount of sweets that I eat.

4. My sister has a collection of
glass animals.

5. I need to pick a topic for my .

6. It was hard to which movie to watch.

7. The icy rain made me .

8. Steve hopes to the Space

Museum someday.

9. That interesting machine is called a .

Phonics 71 Grade 3, Unit 2

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Action Verbs
Bat Loves the Night
Grammar:
What Is a Verb?

A word that tells what people or things do is a verb.

Words that show action, or something that is
Thinking Question
done, are action verbs. What is the subject
The owl blinked its eyes. doing?

It slept in a hollow tree.

Each sentence has one action verb. Write the action verb on
the line.

1. Some animals sleep during the day.

2. They look for food at night.

3. Owls see well in the dark.

4. The owl spread its wings wide.

5. Then it flew from the tree.

6. It beat its wings quietly.

7. The owl spotted a small mouse.

8. It swooped down for the mouse.

9. The mouse hid in a hollow log.

10. The owl returned to its tree.

Grammar 72 Grade 3, Unit 2

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Being Verbs Bat Loves the Night

Grammar:
What Is a Verb?

Some verbs do not show action. The verbs am, is, are,
was, and were are examples of being verbs. They are
forms of the verb be. They tell what someone
or something is or was. Thinking Question
What does the
I am interested in bats. sentence tell me
I was proud of my knowledge of bats. about what the
subject is or was?
They are amazing flyers.
You were last at the zoo.
He is skilled at identifying bats.
We were excited at the zoo.
Am, is, and are show present tense. Was and were
show past tense.

Write the being verb on the line. Write present or past for each verb.

1. My father was nice to my class.

2. He is kind and gives us his zoo passes.

3. We were thankful.
4. The boys are upset when they cannot go.

5. You are good to help us.

6. Most people are happy with the idea.
7. They were surprised when we asked.
8. They are annoyed sometimes but not often.

9. I am careful to ask nicely.

10. I was friendly to everyone.

Grammar 73 Grade 3, Unit 2

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Spelling Word Sort

Bat Loves the Night
Spelling:
More Short and Long Vowels
Write each Basic Word in the box where it belongs. You will
write words with two vowel sounds in more than one box. Spelling Words

Vowel sound in rope Vowel sound in meet Basic

1. math
2. toast
3. easy
4. socks
5. Friday
6. stuff
7. paid
Vowel sound in came Vowel sound in bite 8. cheese
9. June
10. elbow
11. program
12. shiny
13. piles
14. sticky
Vowel sound in blue Vowel sound in flat
Review
each
both

Challenge
Vowel sound in cup Vowel sound in dress
comb
holiday

Vowel sound in skip Vowel sound in odd

Challenge: Add the Challenge Words to your Word Sort.

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Focus Trait: Ideas Bat Loves the Night

Writing:
Opinion Writing

Details and Examples

Writer’s Idea Details and Examples
Bats hang upside down. Bats’ toes are shaped like hooks, so
it’s no effort for a bat to hang upside
down.

A. Read each of the writer’s ideas. Find the details and

examples from Bat Loves the Night that help explain the idea.
Complete the sentences.
Writer’s Idea Details and Examples
1. Bats use their wings like we use our A bat’s wing is its and
arms and hands. hand. Four fingers
the skin of the wing.

2. Bats use sound to locate things in She her voice around her
the dark. like a , and the echoes
come singing back. They carry a
sound of all her voice has
touched.

B. Read the writer’s idea. Look at the pages from Bat Loves the
Night. Write details and examples that help explain the idea.

Pair/Share Work with a partner to find sentences in the story

that include details and examples that support the writer’s idea.
Writer’s Idea Details and Examples
3. Baby bats mature quickly.

Writing 75 Grade 3, Unit 2

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