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Contents

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


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