WR03 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Sentences
- What makes a sentence?
- statements
- questions
- exclamations
- commands
Third grade students will:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Introduce journal writing by responding to teacher-created journal starters almost everyday.
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Introduce paragraphs with basic step up to writing:
- GYYYG
- Go over the parts of a paragraph.
- 1.2b use sentence structure, paragraph structure, text organization, and word order (syntax);
Sentences
- subjects
- predicates
- basics - nouns
- basics - verbs
Third grade students will:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Discuss sentences, including subjects nad predicates, complete accompanying workbook pages 1,2.
Week 2: Discuss kinds of sentences, nounin the subject, and punctuating sentences, review sentences Complete workbook pages 3,4,5.
Week 3: Complete and simple subjects, nouns in the subject, combining sentences, Sentence review Workbook pages 7,8,9,10.
Week 4: Writers' Craft Personal Voice Discuss Colorful Words, Analyze a model of a descriptive paragraph, learn how to make a web as a graphic organizer, write a paragraph about an interesting object.
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Paragraphs - Step Up to Writing GYYYG
- $1,000,000
- Favorite book
- paragraph race
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:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Nouns
- common
- proper
- singular
- plural
- possessive
- Bats Plurals book
Third grade students will:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Complete and simple predicates, verbs in the predicate, combining sentences, extra predicate practice in workbook pages 11,12,13,14.
Week 2: Chapter Review, Complete sentences, Simple and compound sentences, combining sentences, extra practice and chapter review Workbook pages 15,16,17,18,19,20.
Week 3: Thank you notes to the Fire Department
Writing Workshop: Personal narrative, read My First American Friend, discuss the attributes of the story, review beginning, middle and end concepts, write a story about an activty that is enjoyed, edit.
Week 4: Recopy paragraph, discuss context clues, complete vocabulary page 16.
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Extended Paragraphs - Step Up to Writing GYPYPYPG.
- family traditions
- favorite activity
- Christmas letter
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:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Verbs:
- past
- present
- future
- helping verbs
- helping verbs
- be verb
- irregular
- Turkey Plurals
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Nouns, common and proper nouns, abbreviations and titles, Workbook pages 21,22,23 (Snow Day, Comp Day),
Week 2: Chapter review, review common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, plural nouns with ies, Workbook pages 24,25, 26,27,
Week 3: Make EbenEzer Cards, review plural nouns, common and proper nouns, irregular plurals Workbook page 28,
Week 4: WOW VAN, Extra noun practice, chapter review Writers' Craft paragrphing for informative writing, sequencing, sequence words,
Write a paragraph.
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Creative Writing
- Christmas stories
- Legends (beginning, fill in the middle, end)
- Christmas letters (menu choices)
- Trees Plurals
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:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Edit informative paragraph, singular possessive nouns,plural possessive nouns workbook pages 31,32,
Week 2: Revising sentences using possessives, Extra practice Workbook pages 33,34,35,
Week 3: Make EbenEzer cards, Begin verbs, Action verbs Workbook pages 36,37 Christmas activity.
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence, structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Adjectives
- numbers
- a, an, and the
- describing words
- contractions
Third grade students will:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Letters friendly
- letters to president
- Snowman Plurals
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:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Review action verbs, iscuss the verb "be", extra verb practice workbook pages 38,39,40 (WorkDay, Snow Day),
Week 2: Discuss categorizing, create a descrption tree, Writers'Craft How to paragraph, write how to be a friend, Complete page 153 from the book as a review,
Week 3: Time for Kids,Martin Luther King activities, field trip to Stock Show(rescheduled) Stock Show letters, More about Verbs, Workbook page 41,
Week 4: Helping verbs,contractions, dictionary skills, verb tenses, present tense, workbook pages 42, 43, 44, 445, 46, 4.7
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Adverbs
- when
- where
- how
Homophones
- to, two, too
- there, their, they're
- Valentine's Plurals
Third grade students will:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Verb tenses, present tense, subject-verb agreement, practice and review workbook pages 47, 48, 49, 50,
Week 2: CSAP Preparation, released items,
Week 3: TFK, CSAP Test,
Week 4: Past-tense, and future-tense verbs, choosing the correct tense, extra practice and review, irregular verbs, workbook pages 52,53,54,55,56,
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Commas in a series
Quotation Marks
Pronouns
- subject
- object
- possessive
Third grade students will:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Irregular verbs, extra practice and review workbook pages 57,58,59 Copy pages 226 and 227, use complete sentences.
Week 2: Practice topic sentences and writng to a prompt, review parts of speech and conventions, pronouns, pronoun-antecedent agreement,extra practice and review workbook pages 61,62,63,64.
Week 3: Subject pronouns, object pronouns, I and me, possessive pronouns, extra practice and review workbook pages 65,66,67,68,69,70,71.
Week 4: Spring Break
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Standard 5: Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources.
Skills
How to Paragraphs
- PBJ
- brush teeth
- make bed
- make popcorn
Review
- nouns
- pronouns
- verbs
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:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Third grade students will:
- 5.1 gather, organize, and accurately, clearly, and sequentially report information gained from personal observations and experiences such as science experiments, field trips, and classroom visitors;
- 5.2 record observations (for example, logs, lists, graphs, charts, tables, illustrations);
- 5.3 report events sequentially;
- 5.4 write a concluding statement;
- 5.5 use resources (for example, video tapes, magazines, informational books, reference materials, interviews, guest speakers, Internet) and report information in their own words;
- 5.6 list resources used by title.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: More possessive pronouns, contractions with pronouns, extra practice and review, workbook pages 72,73,74,75.
Week 2: Adjectives, workbook pages 76,77,78; Museum book, Arbor Day poster.
Week 3: Learn Arbor Day poem and skit, extra practice and review, workbook pages 79,80.
Week 4: Vivid words, articles, adjectives that compare, avoiding incorrect comparisons, extra practice and review, workbook pages 81,82,83,84,85,86.
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Skills
Creative writing
- Van Allsburg
- Weisner
Review
- adjectives
- adverbs
- contractions
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:
- 3.1 know and use standard, age-appropriate spelling, grammar, word usage (for example, basic subject-verb agreement, complete simple sentences, appropriate verb tense, regular plurals);
- 3.2 write legibly.
Assessment
Resources
Week 1: Adverbs, Mothers Day projects, workbook pages 86,87,88.
Week 2: Practice and review, adjective or adverb?, adverb placement, workbook pages 89,90,91,92.
Week 3: Using good, well, bad, badly, practice and review, workbook pages 93,94,95 Eben Ezer cards
Optional
