Making Words Third Grade

Patricia M. Cunningham Dorothy P. Hall

Making Words 3rd Grade

70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones

Based on the best selling book, Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing, this grade level series offers a fresh pairing of lessons and activities for kindergarten through fifth grade. In Making Words: Third Grade, Pat and Dottie provide third grade teachers with 70 Making Words lessons that cover all of the spelling and decoding skills included in most third grade curricula. After making words in the first part of the lesson, students sort  these words for homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patternsallowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.  

[Pat] covers the gamut of instruction [and] the examples are great.  I already find myself planning lessons for the coming year!

 Amy Martindale Kelly, third grade teacher, Gratham School, Goldsboro, NC

[A] great resourcethe students will benefit greatly from seeing how words are put together.  I plan to include lessons of this type in the years to come! 

Sonya Patrick, third grade teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School, Winston Salem, NC

 [Pat and Dottie] did a wonderful job of putting these [lessons] together.  As a teacher, I was really impressed with the content of this book. 

Toni Harbaugh, third grade teacher, Horizon Elementary School, Jerome, ID

Patricia M. Cunningham is the author of Beyond Retelling, Classrooms That Work, Schools That Work, and Phonics They Use, all published by Allyn & Bacon, as well as a professor of education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience in various elementary grades and with remedial reading and has served as a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Pat promotes literacy for all children through her Four Blocks workshops and staff development sessions with educators.

Dorothy P. Hall is the co-developer of the Four Blocks framework and the director of the Four Blocks Center at Wake Forest University. A former elementary teacher and education professor, she also presents workshops around the country on Four Blocks, Building Blocks, guided reading strategies, and phonics instruction.