For several years now I’ve worked to incorporate word study into our morning messages. We explore chunking words, prefixes and suffixes, various ways to make plurals, and more. For a while now we’ve been studying prefixes and suffixes. I include words that highlight our focus in our morning message and we discuss them (at least sometimes).
Our current literacy unit is around nonfiction. For our multi-day read aloud we’re currently reading Solve This! Forensics by Kate Messner and Anne Ruppert.
Right now we’re trying to solve mystery #2. Some of the evidence includes work in toxicology. One of my students threw this in the chat as we read and discussed our theories and totally made my day.
I know a lot of what we’re studying doesn’t feel relevant to 3rd graders. So it brings extra joy when they make connections across their learning.
one good thing 