Core Knowledge Foundation
Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel
The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work,...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt
Second graders practice skills, including spelling, grammar, and reading. Pupils examine vowel sounds and tricky words, nouns, and verbs. They begin the writing process by drafting a persuasive letter and decoding texts.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 1: Classic Tales
A unit focusing on third-grade skills explores spelling patterns, conducts a read-aloud, practices reading comprehension, and administers assessments for baseline information.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 5: Adventures in Light and Sound
Light and sound are the themes of a unit focused on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, grammar—adverbs, adjectives, synonyms, writing sentences with conjunctions, and listening and responding to read-aloud. Over...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 6: Gods, Giants, and Dwarves
The halfway mark of a series offers final skills practice in spelling patterns, suffixes, and building sentences with conjunctions in preparation for assessments that gauge proficiency. Remediation and enrichment follow the test results...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 8: Native American Storiess
An interdisciplinary unit focuses on third-grade ELA skills and Native American stories. Over two weeks, scholars practice spelling patterns, work with plural possessive nouns and suffixes, and identify between its and it's. Readings...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 9: The Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration is the theme of a unit designed to boost third-grade ELA skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, examine words with prefixes and suffixes, build sentences with linking words, and use comparative and...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America
Over three weeks, third graders participate in lessons designed to boost spelling and grammar skills—adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns—and prefixes. Readings are themed to share stories about Colonial America.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 11: Introduction to Ecology
The concluding skills unit offers learning opportunities and reviews in preparation for assessments. Scholars participate in lessons that examine spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, pronouns, and adjectives, draft a letter, and listen...
Curated OER
The Preterite Tense
Focus on how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the preterite. You can use this webpage to inform your own lesson on the preterite, take a day in the computer lab, or flip your classroom and have pupils examine the page for homework. There is...
Curated OER
The Imperfect (Past) Subjunctive: How?
Teach your class how to form the imperfect subjunctive. Included here is information on and examples of regular imperfect subjunctive verbs, irregular imperfect subjunctive verbs, and imperfect subjunctive -se endings displayed in long...
Curated OER
Irregular Word Fluency, Word Baseball
Students review irregular words and build fluency by playing a game. In this irregular word activity, students label a variety of blank index cards, then post the index cards around the room as signs that create a diamond shape. Students...
Curated OER
Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe
Pupils play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words. In this tic-tac-toe lesson, students read words to a partner. If they are correctly read, pupils mark the tic-tac-toe board.
Curated OER
Perfecting Plural Nouns
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...
Curated OER
Identifying Irregular Past Tense Words
Third graders locate past tense words in a story. In this irregular past tense word instructional activity, 3rd graders read "Gus and the Goblin" and find past tense words. Students give the present tense form of each, then continue the...
Kiz Club
Plural Cards
Prepare a set of cards to help your learners master plural nouns, both typical and irregular varieties. Cut along the dotted lines and fold and/or glue the pieces together to create two-sided cards with a singular noun on one side and a...
K12 Reader
Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: Words That End in Y
Changing the -y to an -ies in a plural noun isn't as straightforward as it sounds! Check out a learning exercise that features 20 singular nouns that need to be changed to plural nouns—and instructions about the grammar rule needed to do...
K12 Reader
Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: Words That End in X and Z
Pizzas is correct, not pizzaes. So why is sixes correct and not sixs? Sort out any grammar confusion with a worksheet on pluralizing nouns that end in -z or -x.
K12 Reader
Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: Words That End in O
Why do heroes and photos end in different ways? Learn the differences among different words that end in -o with a grammar exercise worksheet.
K12 Reader
Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: Words That End in F and EF
Is it giraffes or giravves? Practice changing 20 singular nouns to plural nouns with a helpful grammar worksheet.
K12 Reader
Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: Words That End in CH and SH
Have you done the dishes? Or closed the hatches? A practice worksheet invites learners to check 20 words with different endings, and to add either -s or -es to each.
Curated OER
Home Spelling Practice: Irregular Plurals
In this spelling activity, learners learn to spell a list of words that are irregular plurals. Students write each word one time. There are additional optional at-home activities.
Curated OER
Spelling List Level 3, Set 37
In this set of spelling worksheets, students use flashcards to study a list of words. Then they must alphabetize, write sentences, complete a word puzzle, unscramble letters, and practice writing the words. The spelling list includes 10...