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August
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
August 26-October 3 Roxaboxen:
- Setting
- Drawing Conclusions
Little Painter of Sabana Grande:
- Predictiong Outcomes
- Characterization
Big Orange Splot:
- Compare and Contrast
- Sequencing
June 29, 1999
- Context Clues
- Dictionary
Unit Culminating Activity
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Third grade students will:
Be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Theme 1: Creative Imagintions Vocabulary and Comprehension sheets for every story journal response for every story including predictions and connections after reading Roxaboxen: Story setting, drawing conclusions, kinds of sentences.
The Little Painter of Sabana Grande: Predicting outcomes, the letter e, characterization, subjects and predicates.
The Big Orange Splot: Compare and contrast, sequence, the letter o, multiple meaning words, nouns, Theme 1: Creative Imaginations: Vocabulary and comprehension for every story.
Roxaboxen: Story setting, drawing conclusions, kinds of sentences.
The Little Painter of Sabana Grande: Predicting outcomes, the letter e, characterization, subjects and predicates.
The Big Orange Splot: Compare and contrast, sequence, the letter o, multiple meaning words and nouns.
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
October 6-24 Magic School Bus:
- Graphic Organizers
Very Last First Time:
- Context Clues
- Sequencing
- Making Generalizations
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Third grade students will be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
June 29, 1999: Context clues, dictionary skills, the letter u, multiple meaning words, synonyms
District Writing Assessment
Theme 2: Wonders of the Sea:
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor: Graphic Organizers, vowel pairs, setting, topic sentences, action verbs, past and present tense
Journal 5 ocean facts
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
October 27-November 26 Sunken Treasure:
- Main Idea
- Details
Unit Culminating Activity
- Chicken Sunday:
- Predictiong Outcomes
- Characterization
Mom Can't See Me:
- Main Idea
- Details
- Compare/Contrast
THIRD GRADE
Standard 1:
Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Skills
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Very Last First Time: Context clues, the letters oo, sequence,generalizations, maintaining tense, main and helping verbs, capitalization
Sunken Treasure: Main idea and details, vowel pairs ou and ow, the verb "be".
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Mac and Marie and The Train Toss Surprise:
- Graphic Aids
- Maps
- Summarizing
- Sequencing
Christmas Stories and Traditions:
- Creative Writing
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Introduce Theme 3: Our Families Our Communities
Journal connections and reactions to every story, complete comprehension and Vocabulary sheets for every story
Chicken Sunday: Plurals and inflections, predicting outcomes, characterization, author's purpose, synonyms, similes, adjectives
Mom Can't See Me: Changing y to i, compare and contrast, main idea and details, antonyms
Guest reader for Christmas stories
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 1:
Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2:
Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6:
Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Continue Theme 3:
- Mac and Marie and the Train Toss Surprise: Graphic Aids and maps, doubling and dropping e, summarizing, sequencing, writing a letter
- Halmoni and the Picnic: Reference skills, word endings, details, irregular verbs
- Martin Luther King activities
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 1:
Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2:
Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6:
Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Anansi Finds a Fool: Characterization
Ma'ii and Cousing Horned Toad: Characterization
Magical Starfruit Tree:
- Plot
- References
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Theme 4: Tales From Around the World
The Singing Snake: Story plot, compound words, reference sources, book parts, contractions
Anansi Find a Fool: Characters, syllables, word referents, setting, irregular verbs, adverbs
CSAP Testing
Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad: Characterization, fantasy and realism, subject/verb agreement, linking verbs
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Just a Dream:
- Classifying/Categorizing
- Fantasy/Realism
Time for Kids magazines
- Oil Spill:
- Cause/Effect
- Fact/Opinion
Spring Break
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Magical Starfruit Tree: Story plot, references
Theme 5: Taking Care of the Earth
Just a Dream: Classify and categorize, fantasy and realism, homographs, compound words, focus on reasons, subject and object pronouns
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun:
- Characters
- Fantasy/Realism
- Figurative Language
Unit Culminating Activity
Hanna's Cold Winter:
- Cause/Effect
- Drawing Conclusions
- Encyclopedia
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Oil Spill: Cause and effect, fact and opinion, drawing conlusions, prefixes, telephone directory, fact and opinion, to, too, two
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun: Characters, suffixes, fantasy and realism, figurative language, Guest reader to read the story in Spanish
Theme 6: Meeting Challenges
Hanna's Cold Winter: Cause and effect, drawing conclusions, decoding , encyclopedia, organizing spatiallly, complete sentences, its/it's
Uncle Jed's Barbershop: following directions, decoding, character traits, order words, nouns
Week 3: NWEA testing
Week 4: Time for Kids
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Skills
Uncle Jed's Barbershop:
- Following Directions
- Characters
Ramona's Book Report:
- Classify/Categorizing
- Following Directions
Unit Culminating Activity
Chris Van Allsburg Unit
Third grade students will, by the end of third grade, be fluent readers with a full range of reading strategies to apply to reading a wide variety of increasingly difficult narrative and expository text at the third grade level.
This requires:
- 1.1 an understanding of the text that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.1a adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material; summarize text passages;
- 1.1b apply information and make connections from reading.
- 1.2 an integration of cueing systems that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to do the following:
- 1.2a apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words (graphophonics);
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
- 1.2c use and apply background experience and context to construct a variety of meanings over developmentally appropriate complex texts (semantics);
- 1.2d use strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently (graphophonics, syntax, and semantics).
Third grade students will:
- 2.1 generate topics through prewriting activities (for example, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, drawing, K-W-L charts, group discussion);
- 2.2 align purpose (for example, to entertain, to inform, to communicate) with audience;
- 2.3 write a first draft with the necessary components for a specific genre;
- 2.4 revise draft content (for example, organization, relevant details, clarity);
- 2.5 edit revised draft using resources (for example, dictionary, word lists and banks, thesaurus, spell checker, glossary, style manual, grammar and usage reference);
- 2.6 proofread revised draft;
- 2.7 present final copy according to purpose (for example, read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, and perform).
Third grade students will:
- 6.1 identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story;
- 6.2 identify a regular beat and similarities of sound in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry;
- 6.3 identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct or indirect comparisons in literature;
- 6.4 compare tales from different cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type or by observing the use of such natural phenomena as the seasons, constellations, land formations, or animal behaviors;
- 6.5 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature such as folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction, and content-area reading.
Assessment
Resources
Ramona's Book Report: Classify and categorize, card catalog, following directions, decoding, summaries, commas
Time for Kids
Book Float Parade
Optional
