Language Arts

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Scholastic Book Clubs

Placing your Scholastic Book Order is simple! You can submit your online order at anytime. 

Visit http://www.scholastic.com and enter our class code H4N4L. 
By placing an order on Scholastic you are helping us earn books for our classroom library! Thank you!

Families, we can partner together to develop a love of learning and reading in your student. One way to do so is to support your student in finding both "good fit" books (ones that are at their reading level) and books that are a theme or topic of interest to them. Having lots of options to read will help develop their fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and so much more!

B.O.B.
Battle of the Books (B.O.B) is a voluntary reading incentive program that students can participate in. Students will be asked to read from a selection of books. The goal is to motivate and encourage students to read, while having fun competing with their peers.

Please visit the Etiwanda School District Library page for a full listing of the
 BOB books for 3rd Grade for this coming school year. 

Technology

This year your student will have access to a ChromeBook for use in the classroom. Students will learn to use the touchpad mouse, navigate school programs, and type their response on the keyboard. 

In preparation for using technology, here are some web based games that may be helpful in building computer literacy skills:

Key Board Climber
Alpha Munchies 
Typing.com
Typing Club

Supplies:
If possible, students are requested to bring in a pair of headphones to use in class. These will be for their personal use (not shared), and will be stored in the classroom when not needed. 

Students much prefer over the head headphones rather than "ear bud" type headphones. They also last longer :)

I've purchased ones similar to what's pictured below at DollarTree and 5 Below. *Please write your student's name on their headphones. 

Vocabulary

Prefix, Root Word, and Suffix

Many English words are formed by combining basic words (root words) with prefixes, and suffixes. Prefixes are added to the beginning (pre) of the word, and suffixes are added to the ending of the word. These combinations of words make new words. Being able to identify the prefix, suffix and root word can assist a reader understand the meaning of that word. This is a useful skill to foster reading growth in our students! 

Use the below Quizlets to practice our weekly Prefix, Root word, Suffix (PRS)

Current Week: retro, an, anti

1. Mis- = Bad, or badly wrong

2. Pre-= Before, or in advance 

3. Re- = Again, back, or backwards

4. Hyper- = Over, beyond, high

5. -able= In position to do something

6. -less= Without

7. retro-, an-, anti-= Backward, back, against, opposite

8. ab- = Away from

9. Contra/Counter- = Against, opposite

10. Jur/Jud/Jus- = Law, justice

11. ben/bene/bon- = Good, well

12. mal/male- = Bad

13. Bio- = Life

14. Vit/Vive- = Alive, life

15. flect/flex- = To bend

16. Frail/Fract- = Fragile, break, shatter

17. Junct/Join/Jug- =To join, meet, or link

18. Naut/Naus/Nav- = Relating to the sea, ships, or travelers 

19. -Ness = The state of being (the adjective), the quality of being (the adjective), the measure of being (the adjective)

20. -Less = To be without

21. Micro- = Small

22. Mega/Megal/Megalo- = Large, great

23. Ab- = Away from

24. Ad- = Toward, to

25. Il-, Im-, In-, and Ir- = Not

26. Pro- = To be for, approving, in favor of, positive

27. -Ish= The ability to

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