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Reading 40 3rd grade vocabulary words and their meanings
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Vocabulary Words for 3rd Graders
40 useful 3rd grade vocabulary words in four sets, with meanings, word cards, matching and sentence pages, shades of meaning, multiple-meaning words and a word map.
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3rd grade vocabulary list, word cards and word map
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4 pagesView all 4 pagesVocabulary words for 3rd Graders: word cards
Learning 40 vocabulary words with meanings and example sentences
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Learning a new word: meaning, sentence, picture, synonyms and antonyms
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Set 1, character words: cautious, confident, generous, grateful, patient, stubborn, timid, thoughtful, responsible, determined
View all 2 pages3rd grade vocabulary set 1: match the meaning
Matching set 1 vocabulary words (character words) to their meanings
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View all 2 pages3rd grade vocabulary set 1: sentences
Choosing the set 1 vocabulary word that makes sense in a sentence
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Set 2, action words: investigate, persuade, recall, examine, construct, arrange, demonstrate, contribute, estimate, select
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Matching set 2 vocabulary words (action words) to their meanings
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View all 2 pages3rd grade vocabulary set 2: sentences
Choosing the set 2 vocabulary word that makes sense in a sentence
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Set 3, school words: summarize, evidence, conclude, identify, organize, illustrate, determine, sequence, revise, opinion
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Matching set 3 vocabulary words (school words) to their meanings
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View all 2 pages3rd grade vocabulary set 3: sentences
Choosing the set 3 vocabulary word that makes sense in a sentence
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Set 4, world words: climate, environment, resource, survive, adapt, region, ancestor, tradition, generation, landmark
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Matching set 4 vocabulary words (world words) to their meanings
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View all 2 pages3rd grade vocabulary set 4: sentences
Choosing the set 4 vocabulary word that makes sense in a sentence
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Word meaning skills
View all 2 pagesShades of Meaning: feelings (3rd Grade)
Putting feeling words in order, from a little to a lot
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View all 2 pagesShades of Meaning: how sure are You?
Putting words that show how certain someone is in order, from least to most sure
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View largerWords in real Life: people
Connecting describing words to real people and characters
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View largerWords in real Life: places and things
Connecting vocabulary words to places and things in your own life
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View all 2 pagesMultiple-Meaning Words: 3rd grade
Using a sentence to choose the meaning of a word with more than one meaning
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About these vocabulary words for 3rd graders worksheets
These vocabulary words for 3rd graders are the kind of words children meet in chapter books, science and social studies, and classroom directions: character words like generous and stubborn, action words like investigate and persuade, school words like summarize and evidence, and world words like climate, resource and tradition.
The 40 words come in four sets of ten. Each word has a kid-friendly meaning and an example sentence on the list and the word cards. For each set there is a match-the-meaning page and a sentence page where children choose the word that fits, both with answer keys.
Word meaning skills go further: shades of meaning for feelings (worried, terrified) and for how sure someone is (guessed, believed, knew), real-life connections between words and children's own lives, multiple-meaning words like scale and current, and a word map for any new word. Every page prints in black and white on US Letter or A4.
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.6Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.AUse sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.BIdentify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.CDistinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
How to use them
- Introduce one set a week. Read each word card together, talk about the meaning, and have children say their own sentence.
- Midweek, use the match-the-meaning page; at the end of the week, use the sentence page to check that children can use each word.
- Add the shades of meaning and real-life connection pages for discussion; they work well with a partner.
- Use the word map for new words from read-alouds or science and social studies units.
Teaching tips
- A word sticks when children use it. Challenge the class to use the week's words in conversation and keep a tally.
- Act out character words: show timid, show confident, show stubborn.
- On the shades of meaning pages, there can be good discussion about the middle word. Ask children to explain their order.
Questions teachers and parents ask
What vocabulary words should a 3rd grader know?
3rd graders learn many words from reading and from science and social studies: describing words (generous, cautious), academic words (summarize, evidence, conclude) and subject words (climate, resource, ancestor). This list has 40 of them with meanings.
How do I teach vocabulary words to my 3rd grader?
Introduce a few words at a time with a simple meaning and an example, then have your child use each word in their own sentence, match words to meanings and find them in books.
What are shades of meaning?
Words with almost the same meaning but different strength, like worried and terrified, or believed and knew. 3rd graders learn to put them in order.