Third Grade Lex

*UPDATE: I have saved this as a PowerPoint file for easy editing. Laminate, cut out, and attach these words to magnetic strips to create your own magnetic poetry kit! This kit contains more than 400 words, including punctuation and different parts of speech. Customize with your own 30 words in the remaining cells of the table on page 3 . This would be perfect for a literacy center. The creative possibilities are endless.

This two-page activity can be used as an introduction to the genre of "Mystery." It gauges what one's students might already know about mysteries, and it allows them to define content-specific words related to the genre as well.

This document could easy be used as homework or a math center. Directions: Students, draw a rectangular array to represent the following groups of objects, write the corresponding equation, and solve for the total. Make sure your arrays are neatly drawn so that you do not miscount! Includes 5 groups of objects to show with arrays, and one for the students to write their own group of objects and solve themselves. Answer key included.

This is a simple assessment that will shed light on whether or not your students know how to write money amounts using a dollar sign and a decimal point (rather than using the "cents" sign). Students need to read the money amount and fill in the correct notation in the blank. For example, 3 quarters = ________.

This two-question page is designed for your students to problem solve and show their thinking in pictures, numbers, and/or words. It works perfectly as a homework, classwork, or quick assessment while revisiting multiplication concepts.