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Journeys Third Grade

 

 

 

  

These activities were created in response to a request by teachers to supplement the Houghton Mifflin Journeys series. Please let me know if you find errors since I don't have a class of readers who are anxious to be editors of new materials from the 2014 version of Journeys third grade. Enjoy!

 

  

 Vocabulary Word List Phonics Focus

Unit/Lesson Activities

Poems and Games
principal
soared
strolled
worried
uneasy
proud
announced
fine
certainly
Short Vowels

Lesson 1:
A Fine, Fine School









trial
jury
convinced
guilty
pointed
honest
murmur
stand

Long vowels

Lesson 2:
The Trial of Cardigan Jones

 
raise
spreading
earn
figure
contacted
block
afford
customers
Common Vowel Pairs
ai, ay, ee, ea

ail Set
ain Set
air Set
ay Set
eat Set
ee Set
eed Set
eep Set
eet Set

Lesson 3:
Destiny's Gift






crew
tide
cling
balancing
foggy
disappears
stretch
excitement
Long o spelled
oa, ow

oat Set
ow Set

Lesson 4:
Pop's Bridge

 
stands
fans
score
league
slammed
polish
style
pronounced
Long i spelled i, ie, igh

ice Set
ide Set
ie Set
ight Set
ike Set
ime Set
ine Set
ite Set

Lesson 5:
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates

 
twitch
swoops
squeak
echoes
detail
slithers
doze
snuggles
Words with the VCV pattern

Lesson 6:
Bat Loves the Night

 
imagine
tools
illustrate
scribbles
sketches
tracing
research
textures
Three-Letter Clusters
(scr, spr, str, thr)

scr Set
spr Set
str Set

Lesson 7:
What Do Illustrators Do?

 
harvest
separate
ashamed
borders
advice
borrow
patch
serious
Silent Letters
kn
wr

kn Set (25 pages)
kn Color and Write (18 pages)
kn memory game (17 pages)

wr Set (20 pages)

Lesson 8:
The Harvest Birds

 
familiar
applause
vacant
rickety
blurry
blasted
jerky
rude
Vowel Diphthongs
ow
ou

ow Set

out Set
ound Set

Lesson 9:
Kamishibai Man

 
invention
experiment
laboratory
genius
gadget
electric
signal
occasional
Words with
au, aw, al and o

au Set
aw Set
ob Set
ock Set
og Set
op Set
ot Set

Lesson 10:
Young Thomas Edison

 
contribute
athletes
improve
power
process
flexible
fraction
compete
Vowel Diphthongs
oi
oy

oi and oy Set

Lesson 11:
Technology Wins the Game

 
risky
grunted
profit
crops
plucked
scowled
tugged
hollered
Homophones

Homophones Puzzles
Another Homophones Puzzle
Homophones Crossword
Wd Wall Cards

Words Ending in -er and -le

Lesson 12:
Tops and Bottoms

 
examined
peak
fondly
steep
rugged
mist
pausing
pleaded
Contractions with
n't
'd
've

n't contractions list

Lesson 13: Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend

 
lying
loyal
partners
shift
quiver
patrol
ability
snap
Words with
ar, or, ore

I Have, Who Has or

ar Kid Cards Set
or Kid Cards Set

ar Set
or Set
ore Set

Lesson 14:
Aero and Officer Mike, police partners

 
festive
ingredients
degrees
recommended
anxiously
cross
remarked
tense
Words with er, ir, ur, or

I Have, Who Has er
I Have, Who Has ir
I Have, Who Has or

er Kid Cards Set
ir Kid Cards Set
or Kid Cards Set
ur Kid Cards Set

er Set
ir Set
ur Set
or Set

ore Set
ork Set
orn Set

Lesson 15:
The Extra-good Sunday

 
recycle
project
dripping
carton
complicated
pollution
rubbish
hardly
shade
global
Words with 
air
ear
are

air Set

Lesson 16:
Judy Moody Saves the World!

 
fossils
clues
remains
prove
evidence
skeletons
uncovering
buried
fierce
location
Words with
/j/
/s/
Words with the VCCCV pattern

Soft C and G Sort
Soft C Book
Soft C Match
Soft G Book
Soft G Match
Soft C Set
Soft G Set

Lesson 17:
The Albertosaurus Mystery: Philip Currie's Hunt in the Badlands

Kid Cards for Spelling

 
pollen
store
clumps
passages
absorb
throughout
coverings
spines
tropical
dissolve
Words with 
/k/
/kw/

hard c Wd Wall Set
k Wd Wall Set
/kw/ Word Wall Set

Lesson 18:
A Tree is Growing

Kid Cards for Spelling

 
scolding
greedily
ignored
hesitation
burden
glancing
base
console
drowsy
heroic
Vowel Sounds in
spoon
wood

ood Set
ook Set
oom Set
oon Set

Lesson 19:
Two Bear Cubs

Kid Cards for Spelling

Poem
shelter
colony
constant
wilderness
climate
region
unexpected
gliding
overheated
layer
Compound Words

I Have, Who Has

Compound Word Puzzles

Thematic Puzzles

Compound Connection! Set(117 pages)

Lesson 20:
Life on the Ice

Kid Cards for Spelling

 
prairie
slick
fetch
clattered
sniff
rough
batted
thumped
buzzing
rustle
Base Words and
-ed
-ing

Lesson 21:
Sarah, Plain and Tall

Kid Cards for Spelling

 
migrate
survival
plenty
frightening
accidents
solid
chilly
landscape
thunderous
dramatic
Spelling Changes:
-s, -es, -ed, -ing

Lesson 22:
The Journey: Stories of Migration

 
sincere
managed
loaded
loveliest
conversations
inspired
reunion
currently
pleasure
terror
Suffixes
-ful
-y
-ous
-ly
-er

-ful Worksheet

Comparative Endings Activity (er)

Lesson 23:
The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman

Kid Cards for Spelling

 
voyage
lava
rippled
arrival
guided
twisted
aboard
anchor
spotted
bay
Prefixes
un-
pre-
re-
bi

Lesson 24:
Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves

 
approached
section
avalanches
increases
equipment
tanks
slopes
altitude
succeed
halt
Suffixes
-less
-ness
-able

Lesson 25:
Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest

 
principal
proud
announced
advice
loyal
ability
absorb
loveliest
compete
approached
Common Final Syllables:
-tion
-sion
-ture

Lesson 26: The Foot Race Across America

 
research
tools
familiar
gadget
invention
experiment
electric
power
power
prove
improve
Double Consonants

Lesson 27:
The Powers of Magnets

 
throughout
textures
peak
steep
tropical
landscape
slopes
altitude
survival
equipment
Words with 
ough
augh

Lesson 28:
Becoming Anything He Wants to Be

 
excitement
score
athletes
tense
succeed
league
earn
partners
pleasure
contribute
Words Ending in
-er
-le

Lesson 29:
A New Team of Heroes

 
worried
certainly
raise
afford
applause
anxiously
dramatic
guided
ingredients
fetch
Schwa Sound

Lesson 30:
Saving Buster