Reading Words

Unit 3 Reading – Let’s Connect


Week 1	

Kate’s Game
Oral Vocabulary	culture  custom
Phonics – long a	ate  wave  made  plane  wake  name  safe  blame  
sale  same  tape  date
Story/Vocabulary words	hello  could  walk  pull  all  oh  stuck  feet  tail
Challenge	address  city  post office


Week 2	

Kids Can Help
Oral Vocabulary	outline  observe

Phonics – s blends	spot  spell  slot  slim  smash  smell  step  still  
sniff  skip  swim  scale 

Story/Vocabulary words	boy  girl  people  when  care  water  together

Challenge	animals  bread  brother  cook  home  leaves  Ilama  
neighborhood  recycled  river


Week 3	

Short Shadows, Long Shadows
Oral Vocabulary	outline  observe

Phonics – digraphs (ch  tch  wh)	itch  catch  batch  pitch  check  
chick  much  lunch  chip  whip  which  inch

Story words	our  again  would  your light

Challenge	change  moves  Earth  shadow


Week 4	

Smile, Mike!
Oral Vocabulary	member  share

Phonics – long i	Ike  Mike  side  wide  time  bite  fine  line  pile  
five  ripe  smile

Story/Vocabulary words	call  how  more  funny  there  so

Challenge	baby  bubbles  happy  hungry  grandmother  grandfather  aunt


Week 5	

Gram and Me
Oral Vocabulary	connection  support

Phonics – blends (scr  spl  spr  str)	scrap  scrape  scrub  sprig  sprint  
spring  strap  stripe  stride  struck  splash  split

Story/Vocabulary Words	say  says  about  give  read  were
Challenge	grandmother  story  learn  boats  flowers  salt  cook  tree  
celebrate  relatives  parade