Grade Level and Subject Area:   3^rd grade   Language Arts                    revised 9-09-07

Time Period Covered:  1^st quarter

Content
(What do your students need to KNOW?)

Skills
(What do your students need to be able to DO?)

Activities
(HOW will you teach it?)

Differentiation
(How will you reach the DIVERSITY of learners?)

Assessment
(How will you assess what your students ALREADY KNOW, and assess WHAT THEY’VE LEARNED?)

Resources
(What MATERIALS will you need?)

Literacy Connection(How will you use READING and WRITING with this material?)

  What are good readers?

Understanding of what has been read

Choosing appropriate materials

Reference materials

Word patterns

Create a writing plan

Use of technology

Proofreading

Punctuation

 Reading strategies

Suffixes and prefixes

Summarize

Making connections

Choose books that are appropriate

Read independently

Name and describe elements of a story

Ability to work in quiet cooperative groups

  Focus on story elements

Prediction

“Cliff Hanger”

Vocabulary

Guess the covered word

Sentence structure

Retell (story sense)

“Mulan, Legend”

“Lost and Found”

Focus on poetry

“Radio Rescue”

 Small group instruction

Reteach

model

 DRA Quarterly Assessments

Small group observation

CCC

STAR

Comprehension Tests

Observation

SSR

County assigned writing prompt

Accelerated Reading Program

Teacher assessment of small independent groups

  Island of the Skog

Mummies in the Morning

Arthur Writes a Story

What Do Authors Do?

Chant word wall words

Making words

Guess the covered word

textbooks

word banks

Read and write stories