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Roadrunner Tracks: Spelling Patterns in a Nature Journal

Grade 3 spelling practice with a roadrunner journal: ck and k, tch and ch, dge and ge, double consonants before -le, and compound words.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.2.f

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1 Common Core standard
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9 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students choose ck, tch or dge after a short vowel and k, ch or ge after other sounds.
Students double the consonant before -le when the first syllable has a short vowel.
Students spell compound words by joining two smaller words.

How to use

Read the journal together and point out the words with ck, tch and dge. Then have students work through the spelling rules and fix Mirela's draft on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.2.f

Use spelling patterns and generalizations, such as word families, syllable patterns, ending rules, and meaningful word parts, to spell words.

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Roadrunner Tracks: Spelling Patterns in a Nature Journal

Spell words with ck, tch, dge, double letters before -le and compound words.

Read the journal

Mirela wrote about a bird she saw on a hike. Read her journal and look at how the words are spelled.

Mirela's Roadrunner Journal

1Today Lorenzo and I hiked with Aunt Corinne on a dry, dusty trail. Near a prickly bush, we spotted a roadrunner! It had a long tail, a shaggy crest on its head, and brown feathers with little white speckles.

2The bird did not fly away. Instead, it took off running. It was so quick that it left a small cloud of dust behind it. Aunt Corinne told us that roadrunners can fly, but they would rather run.

3Next, the roadrunner stopped at the edge of a rock ledge. It gave a sudden hop and snatched a grasshopper off a weed. Then it swallowed the grasshopper in one gulp. "What a catch!" Lorenzo whispered.

4Before we left, we found its tracks in the sand. Each track looked like a little X. That is because a roadrunner has two toes that point forward and two that point back. I made a quick sketch of one in the middle of my journal page.

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