SALTA 3rd grade

3 rd Grade Scope and Sequence

Unit 4: January 24-March 4 Recommended Days: 24

ELA Writing DWSBA #2: Jan 31-Feb 11

Allotted Days: 28

Unit 4 Theme: One of a Kind

Big Question What does it mean to be unique?

Writing Focus

Reporting Standards

DWSBA: INFORMATIVE/ EXPLANATORY Jan 31-Feb 11

Writing to Sources NARRATIVE

• Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding referring to the text • Recognize the structure (e.g., sequence, stanza, images) • Compare and contrast the author’s and reader’s point of view • Write narrative text to develop real or imagined experiences • Use grammar skills when writing or speaking • Read grade level text fluently with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support comprehension

Additional Writing Resources found Google Team Drive

Unit Planning BEGIN by using Reading Standards

Question of the Week

Text Aligned Reading Standards

Main Selection

RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Week 1

How do talents make someone unique?

The Man Who Invented Basketball

Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5

What makes nature’s record holders unique? Why is it valuable to have unique interests? What unique traits does it take to be the first to do something?

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

Rocks in His Head

America’s Champion Swimmer Gertrude Ederle

What behaviors are unique to different animals?

Fly Eagle fly!

Flexible days can be used at any time within a unit for the purpose of: 1) Extending time on a standard(s) 2) Reviewing, extending, frontloading 3) Incorporating performance tasks

Flexible Days