Module1 Vocab

Knowledge Map 1.1

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Marisol
McDonald

Judy
Moody
Zach

Interesting
Characters

Scaredy Stink
Squirrel

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Decoding 1.1

Blend and Read

Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u

If a word starts with a vowel followed by a consonant (VC), or it has the CVC pattern,
the vowel usually stands for the short vowel sound.

1 jab mend tin pond dump

2 plant which oddly such bud

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 3 lump toss chest fifth actor

4 track red sun truck when

5 click flop trick get foggy

6 I jumped in reaction when I bit my lip while eating the egg.

Grade 3 | Foundational Skills Module 1  •  Week 1

Critical Vocabulary 1.2a

Critical Vocabulary

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 1 clash Colors or patterns that clash look strange or ugly together.
2 winking If you want your outfit to clash, wear plaid pants and
3 suggest a striped shirt.
4 scrunches
You are winking when you quickly blink one eye at
someone because you share a joke or secret. Malia is
winking at me, so I know she isn’t being serious.

If you suggest something, you give ideas or plans for
someone to think about. What do you suggest we do to find
our way back to the campsite?

If something scrunches up, it is squeezed or crushed into
a different shape. Damon always scrunches up his hat so
it doesn’t hang down to his eyebrows.

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Critical Vocabulary 1.2b

Critical Vocabulary

5 mushy Something that is mushy is soft and squishy. The bananas
were packed under all the other groceries, and now they
feel mushy.

6 usual The usual way to do something is the way that is done most
often. Let’s take the usual route to school instead of trying
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7 bilingual People who are bilingual can speak two languages. Because
Paolo is bilingual, he can communicate with many more
people than I can!

8 mismatched Things that are mismatched do not fit or belong together.

When I put my socks on, I thought they were both blue, but
now I see they are mismatched.

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Meet the Author and Illustrator

Monica Brown’s background as a Peruvian American gives her
ideas for many of her books. One of those books, Marisol
McDonald Doesn’t Match, won many awards including the Tejas
Star Book Award and the International Latino Book Award.

She lives with her family in Arizona. Monica writes to
create “the highest possible quality of literature for children.”

Sara Palacios grew up in Mexico. She is an illustrator and
teacher at an art university in San Francisco. Her colorful
illustrations are a perfect match for Monica’s story.

Grade 3 | Reading Module 1 • Week 1

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Context Clues Vocabulary Strategy 1.3

Context is the words and sentences around Examples:
a word. Context clues are words that
help you understand the meaning of 1 Margot is a geologist, a
an unfamiliar word.
scientist who studies rocks
Sometimes context clues give a definition and other substances that
of the word. Other times they give an make up our planet.
example that helps you understand the
word’s meaning. Context clues may also 2 Elias plays the conga. Do
help you make an inference, or a smart
guess, about the word’s meaning. you see him behind that
barrel-shaped drum?

3 A raptor, or bird of prey, may

eat mice, rabbits, fish, or even
other birds.

Grade 3 | Vocabulary Module 1 • Week 1

Decoding 1.3

Blend and Read

Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u

1 magnet center windy proper summer

2 cabin winter topping empty buddy

3 number boxer empty fifty actor

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 4 happen redness fishing sunny when

5 panic pumpkin rapid helpful contract

6 I am glad I made the decision to go fishing on a sunny day.

7 We will get to visit Grandpa next Sunday to help put up decorations

for his party.

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Generative Vocabulary 1.4

Prefixes mis– and un– mis–

A prefix is a word part added to “badly, wrongly”
the beginning of a base word that or “opposite or
changes the meaning of the word.
The prefix mis– means “badly, lack of”
wrongly” or “opposite or lack of.” It
changes the meaning of a verb. The misuse misdirect
prefix un– means “not.” It changes the
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. meaning of an adjective or verb. mistreat

Grade 3 | Vocabulary un–

“not”

unfold unclear

unwise

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Knowledge Map 1.5

independent Marisol mismatched
athletic McDonald
Zach MNL04APE3X_U8C25L2-14A
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Judy
Moody

Interesting
Characters

Scaredy Stink
Squirrel

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Critical Vocabulary 1.6

Critical Vocabulary

1 moody If you are moody, your feelings change often and quickly.
When Jamal is moody, he can be sad one minute and laughing
the next.

2 pesky Something that is pesky is annoying. That pesky squirrel
keeps stealing food from the bird feeder.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 3 illustrate If you illustrate a book, you draw pictures that go with

the story. Deva will illustrate the picture book with drawings
and paintings.

4 snarled If something is snarled, it is twisted and tangled. The yarn

is snarled because my kitten was playing with it for hours.

Grade 3 | Vocabulary Module 1 • Week 2

Meet the Author 1.6

©Michele McDonald/Candlewick Press; © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Meet the Author

Megan McDonald is the author of the award-winning
Judy Moody book series. Many of her stories are based on
her memories of growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
With four older sisters, it was hard for young Megan to get
a word in, so her mother gave her a notebook to write
down what she wanted to say.

When she grew up, she earned university degrees in
English and library science. Today Megan McDonald has
written over 60 books for children in 22 languages!

Grade 3 | Reading Module 1 • Week 2

Decoding 1.6

Blend and Read

Long Vowels a, e, i, o, u

Words with the VCe pattern make the long vowel sound.

1 tame eve like stove fuse

2 blade fine slope cube scene

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 3 wrote these make side tune

4 save spoken write use theme

5 take fuse tire code shine

6 Pete and Luke misjudged the time it would take to bike home.

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Decoding 1.6

Blend and Read

Long Vowels a, e, i, o, u

1 erase complete unwise alone misuse

2 migrate outline remote reduce serene

3 dispose basement engage describe conclude

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 4 embrace inside writing assume discrete

5 unbaked misuse hopeful nosedive limestone

6 I dislike when I make a mistake on my art project and have to glue it.

7 You won’t get lonely if you decide to invite your friends to play with

you outside.

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© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Context Clues Vocabulary Strategy 1.7

Context is the words and sentences around Examples:
a word. Context clues are words that
help you understand the meaning of 1 Many marine animals, such as
an unfamiliar word.
Sometimes context clues give a definition whales and porpoises, live in
of the word. Other times they give an the Arctic.
example that helps you understand the
word’s meaning. Context clues may also 2 I like to eat oranges. They are
help you make an inference, or a smart
guess, about the word’s meaning. filled with many nutrients,
such as vitamin C, minerals,
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3 My dog prefers to avoid all

kinds of precipitation. If it
rains, snows, or sleets, he
won’t budge from the house.

Module 1 • Week 2

Critical Vocabulary 1.8

Critical Vocabulary

1 annual An annual event happens once each year. We spend the
whole year looking forward to our annual summer beach party.

2 recited If you recited something, you said it aloud after you had
learned it. After Carli read the poem to herself many times,
she recited it for the class.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 3 protested If you protested, you said you did not agree with a statement

or an idea. Several people protested after the mayor announced
the new playground plans.

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Meet the Illustrator 1.8

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Meet the Illustrator

Peter H. Reynolds, illustrator of Judy Moody Mood
Martian and Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout, began
writing and illustrating in seventh grade. His teacher found
him drawing instead of working on his math assignment.
Instead of scolding him, the teacher suggested he illustrate
a comic book to explain math concepts. His book was so
successful, it led to an animated film!

His best-known book is The Dot. This book is so
popular that International Dot Day now happens each year.
On this day, a million educators and students around the
world celebrate classroom creativity!

Grade 3 | Reading Module 1  •  Week 2

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Context Clues Vocabulary Strategy 1.9a

Context is the words and sentences Examples:
around a word. Context clues are words
that help you understand the meaning of 1 I noticed the fragrant air along
an unfamiliar word.
the path. The blooming roses
Sometimes context clues give a definition smelled better than any
of the word. Other times they give an perfume.
example that helps you understand the
word’s meaning. Context clues may also 2 Josie loved to go to the
help you make an inference, or a smart
guess, about the word’s meaning. cinema. Nothing made her
happier than watching a story
on the big screen.

Grade 3 | Vocabulary Module 1 • Week 2

Context Clues Vocabulary Strategy 1.9b

3 The ship sailed through

treacherous waters. The ship’s
crew feared they might never
make it to shore.

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Grade 3 | Vocabulary Module 1 • Week 2

Generative Vocabulary 1.10

Prefix non– non–
“not”
A prefix is a word part added
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. to the beginning of a base word nonthreatening nonverbal
that changes the meaning of
the word.

The prefix non– means “not.”
It changes a word to mean
its opposite.

nontoxic

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Knowledge Map 1.10

independent mismatched
athletic
Zach Marisol
unique McDonald

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(tl) ©Tiffany Bryant/Shutterstock © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Judy curious
Moody

Interesting determined
Characters funny

Scaredy Stink Ha, ha!
Squirrel

imaginative

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Critical Vocabulary 1.11a

Critical Vocabulary

1 venturing If you are venturing somewhere, you are going somewhere
that is unfamiliar and may be unsafe. The travelers are
venturing to a part of the jungle few have explored.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 2 predictable If something is predictable, it is just as you expect, with no

surprises. My dog likes to have a predictable schedule of walks
and treats.

3 emergency An emergency is an unexpected situation that requires help

or quick action to make it better. In case of an emergency,
be sure to call the doctor right away.

4 consult If you consult something, you look at it to find information.
I have no idea what that word means, so I will consult a
dictionary.

Grade 3 | Vocabulary Module 1 • Week 3

Critical Vocabulary 1.11b

Critical Vocabulary

5 distract If you distract someone, you focus their attention away from
6 drastic something. We need to focus, so please try not to distract us
while we take the test.
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If you make a drastic change, you do something very
different from what you have always done. Anton got such a
drastic haircut that I hardly recognized him.

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Meet the Author and Illustrator

Mélanie Watt illustrated her first children’s book as
part of an assignment when she was in college. After
submitting the assignment to a publisher, it was made
into a book! She was on her way to becoming an award-
winning author and illustrator. Scaredy Squirrel is her
most well-known book.

If you like Scaredy Squirrel, you might also like to
read the other Scaredy Squirrel books Mélanie Watt has
written. Two of those books are Scaredy Squirrel at the
Beach and Scaredy Squirrel at Night.

Grade 3 | Reading Module 1 • Week 3

Decoding 1.11

Blend and Read

More Long a and Long e Spellings

The vowel teams ai, ay, and ea make the long a sound. The vowel teams ea, ee, and
ie make the long e sound.

1 paid greet may lead he

2 way main beach steak bead

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 3 treat cheek ray shield paint

4 sail feet stay cheap reach

5 pain chain seems stray keep

6 The rain fell nonstop into the deep stream.

Grade 3 | Foundational Skills Module 1 • Week 3

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Context Clues Vocabulary Strategy 1.12

Context is the words and sentences around Examples:
a word. Context clues are words that help
you understand the meaning of an 1 When we go camping,
unfamiliar word.
Sometimes context clues give a definition we love to look up at the
of the word. Other times they give an constellations, or groups of
example that helps you understand the stars, in the clear night sky.
word’s meaning. Context clues may also
help you make an inference, or a smart 2 Before his tennis match my
guess, about the word’s meaning.
brother was showing signs of
Grade 3 | Vocabulary anxiety, such as sweaty palms
and an inability to sit still.

3 Abby put on a heavy coat and

wool mittens to protect herself
against the frigid weather.

Module 1 • Week 3

Generative Vocabulary 1.13a

Suffixes –ful, –less –ful

A suffix is a word part added “full of,”“characterized
to the end of a base word by,” or “able to”
that changes the meaning of
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. the word. noun glee noun thought
adjective gleeful adjective thoughtful
The suffix –ful means “full of,”
“characterized by,” or “able noun truth
to.” It usually changes a base adjective truthful
word into an adjective.

The suffix –less means
“without.” It changes a base
word into an adjective.

Grade 3 | Vocabulary Module 1 • Week 3

Generative Vocabulary 1.13b

Suffixes –ful, –less –less

When you add either –ful or “without”
–less to a base word, the base
word’s spelling may change noun age noun color
slightly. For some words adjective ageless adjective colorless
ending in y, the y changes
to i.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. noun sun
adjective sunless

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Decoding 1.13

Blend and Read

More Long a and Long e Spellings

1 refrain okay dismay beanbag relay

2 raisin aided leader daydream greeting

3 treatment weekly painting teenage haystack

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 4 painful receive mailbox pieces greatly

5 raindrops mayor genie rebreak layers

6 Cassy and Layla went to the playground for recess.

7 In the summer season, Jason weeded the garden so only the peanut

seedlings remained.

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Knowledge Map 1.14

(bl) ©Treenoot Sojerya/Alamy, (tl) ©Tiffany Bryant/Shutterstock © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. independent mismatched
athletic
Zach Marisol
unique McDonald

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Judy curious
Moody

Interesting determined
Characters funny

cautious Stink

Scaredy Ha, ha!
Squirrel

controlled imaginative

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