Grade 3 English: Vocabulary and Word Study
Free Grade 3 English unit on Vocabulary and Word Study: 10 lessons in order, starting with Academic vocabulary. Includes practice questions and answer keys.
10 lessons in this unit
Academic vocabulary
Learn and use important school words such as compare, describe, explain, predict and evidence.
Lesson 2Context clues
Use clues in the sentence around an unknown word to work out what it means.
Lesson 3Synonyms and antonyms
Find words with similar meanings (synonyms) and opposite meanings (antonyms) and choose the best one.
Lesson 4Multiple-meaning words
Recognise words with more than one meaning and use context to choose the right one.
Lesson 5Prefixes
Use the prefixes dis-, mis-, pre- and over- to work out and build word meanings.
Lesson 6Suffixes
Use the suffixes -er, -ness, -ment, -able and -ly to build and understand words.
Lesson 7Word roots
Use the Greek and Latin roots tele, graph, phon and aqua to understand new words.
Lesson 8Dictionary skills
Use alphabetical order, guide words and entries to find and understand words in a dictionary.
Lesson 9Figurative expressions
Understand idioms and other expressions whose meaning is different from the words themselves.
Lesson 10Spelling conventions
Use common spelling rules: plurals, doubling, dropping e and changing y to i.