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Theme 3 - Incredible Stories
Some stories are too wild to be believed!

Incredible stories is the third theme in our third grade anthology. Students will learn about stories that are amazing, unbelievable and not likely to happen. We will work on the following skills over the course of this theme.

Comprehension Skills
- Fantasy and Realism
- Following Directions
- Drawing Conclusions
- Story Structures

Strategies
- Question
- Evaluate
- Predict/Infer
- Monitor/Clarify

Structural Analysis
- Plurals of Nouns Ending in -f or -fe
- Word Endings -er, -est
- Suffixes -y, -ly
- Prefixes un-, dis-, non

Phonics
- Vowel Sounds in clown and lawn
- Vowel + /r/ Sounds
- The /j/, /k/, and /kw/ Sounds
- Homophones

In theme 3, we will read four selections. Click the icon below to open a family newsletter for each of the selections. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software application, to read this document.

Book Cover	Selection	Family Newsletter
	Selection 1: Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/depaola.html Read and Post Book Reviews of Dogzilla (Get Parent's Permission First)
	Selection 2: The Mysterious Giant of Barletta by Tomie dePaola http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/ewordgame/index.html?grade=3&theme=3&selection=1
	Selection 3: Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/nolen.html http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/gr3/gr3_th3_sel3.html
	Selection 4: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/gr3/gr3_th3_sel3.html

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