Words Every 3rd Grader Needs To Know

Download or read book Words Every 3rd Grader Needs to Know! written by Lee S. Justice and published by Frank Schaffer Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words Every Third Grader Needs to Know! is a vocabulary resource designed to support instruction in the content areas. Each activity gives students extra practice with academic vocabulary, which are the subject-specific words that often challenge learners. Students rarely encounter these words in everyday use. However, knowing them is essential to a student’s ability to learn new subject concepts. The 200 words in Words Every Third Grader Needs to Know! have been carefully selected to match national education standards in the curriculum areas of math, science and health, technology, language arts, history, geography, civics and economics, and the arts. The activities feature vocabulary words in a variety of contexts so that students can make their own thoughtful connections about them. This book also includes a reproducible student dictionary, vocabulary game ideas and reproducible templates, and word cards––tools that will make learning academic vocabulary words both effective and fun! Features: • 200 subject-specific vocabulary words • Standards-based activities • Vocabulary games and templates • Student dictionary • Word cards