Third Grade

Johnny Can Spell

Learn how to integrate instruction and practice in phonemic awareness, phonetics, penmanship, and spelling, supporting development of encoding and decoding skills.
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Johnny Can Write

Learn how to integrate sentence writing, vocabulary building activities, and grammar instruction.
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Write with Color

Think out of the box. Using the five senses, think descriptively about common things and common places. Use these ideas to create a “color poem.”
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Spell SMART

Instead of assigning word lists and testing word lists, teach students how to Think to Spell–a word analysis process that focuses on phonograms, syllables, morphemes, and rules of language.
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How We Write

Learn how to use sentence writing in to teach anchor lessons about the writing process, the vocabulary of writers, and the skills for drafting, conferring, revising, and editing.
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Sentences under Construction

Do not think about right or wrong; just play with sentences.  Zoom-in and zoom-out, creating long flowing sentences or very short skeleton sentences. Use puppets, sentence codes, and drama to understand the different kinds of sentences–
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The Sounds and Symbols of English

Examine the basics of teaching systematic, explicit phonics with handwriting for a multi-sensory approach.
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Handwriting

Learn the basics to successfully teach students how to hold a pencil and how to form letters. Examine the habits of handwriting and ways to help students improve.
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Johnny Can Spell Phonogram Card Set

A laminated, class-sized (5.5 x 8.5 inches) set of the 70 common phonograms. Front of card has large image of phonogram.
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Practicing the Phonograms with Alice Nine (Audio CD)

An audio CD designed to facilitate practice of the correct pronunciation of the isolated speech sounds associated with the 70 common phonograms.
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Johnny Can Spell Teacher’s Guide

A nongraded guide for the teaching of phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, and spelling in an integrated approach.
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Johnny Can Write Teacher’s Guide

A nongraded reference book for teaching word grammar (parts of speech), sentence grammar (sentence composition and fluency, sentence elements, punctuation), vocabulary (dictionary skills, word derivation, word relationships, multiple meanings).
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Johnny Can Spell/Write Lesson Planner, Book 3:1

Day by day guide for third grade teacher, 1st semester. Provides 75 lessons (Lessons 1-75) that integrate phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, sentence composition.
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Johnny Can Spell/Write Lesson Planner, Book 3:2

Day by day guide for third grade teacher, 2nd semester. Continues from Book 3:1. Provides 75 lessons (Lessons 76-150) that integrate phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and sentence composition.
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The ABC’s and All Their Tricks, Margaret Bishop

A highly recommended resource to assist in the phonetic analysis of words. The single best phonics reference book ever!
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The third grade student using Johnny Can Spell will review…

• Correct penmanship habits and proper use of tools
• To form manuscript letters correctly
• Alphabetical order
• The common sounds of the 70 common phonograms
• Common spelling rules
• Rules of syllabication

The third grade student using Johnny Can Spell will learn…

• Over 500 new high frequency words
• Correct formation of letters in cursive, both lower case and capital
• How to join cursive letters when writing a word
• How to identify the direct object, predicate adjective or nominative, and an indirect object
• About verb tenses: present, past, and future in the simple and the perfect
• About different types of conjunctions
• The difference between transitive, intransitive, and linking verbs

The third grade student using Johnny Can Spell will be able to…

• Find the meaning of a word, the part of speech, and irregular spellings in the dictionary
• Use a thesaurus to enhance word choice in writing
• To use rhyming and alliteration patterns in creative writings
• Identify common homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
• Use words with multiple meanings
• Identify the beginning and end of a sentence in print
• Classify spelling words according to parts of speech
• Form noun plurals and possessives; capitalize proper nouns
• Identify prepositional phrases in sentences
• Write complete sentences
• Classify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
• Classify sentences as simple, compound, and complex
• Use descriptive words and phrases to elaborate with adjectival elements
• Use descriptive words and phrases to elaborate with adverbial elements
• Diagram basic sentence elements

The third grade student using Johnny Can Write will know…

• Common inflectional forms, -s and –es with nouns, -ed and –ing with verbs, -er and –est with adjectives
• Common suffixes, e.g., -able, -ous, -ly, -ion, -ive, -ment, -ful
• Common prefixes, e.g., re-, un-, pre-, post-, tri-, sub-, dis-
• Common roots, e.g., ject, tend, quest, tele-, mem-, cord, vict, tract
• Common prepositions
• The forms of common irregular verbs, e.g., go, going, went, gone
• What is a subject and what is a predicate
• How to begin and end a written sentence
• How to add descriptive words to a sentence
• How to use proof reader marks

The third grade student using Johnny Can Write will be able to…

• To identify and create rhyming and alliteration patterns
• Identify common homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
• Use words with multiple meanings
• Identify the beginning and end of a sentence in print
• Write complete sentences
• Classify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
• Use descriptive words and phrases to answer the adjective questions—Which one? What kind? How many?
• Use descriptive words and phrases to answer the adverb questions—How? When? Where? Why?