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MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 1 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Reading - How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
Students will be able to:
• Draw conclusions & inferences from text
• Use letter sound knowledge and
structural analysis to decode words *Double consonants *Short vowels *Long vowels
• Distinguish cause/effect Fact/opinion Main idea/Supporting detail
• Recognize purpose of text
• Compare/Contrast story plots, characters, settings, themes
• Identify meaning for vocabulary 3.1.3 A3, B1, C2, F 1-5, G1,2,8, 10
Spelling Practice Book Phonics Practice Book Stella Luna by Janell Cannon (Big Book) How I Spent My Summer Vacation By Mark Teague Goldilocks and the Three Bears By James Marshall “American Black Bears” By Helen Gilks Allies Basketball Dream By David Murdock “People and Horses” By Anthony Reynoso Born to Rope by Cooper Gordon Herbie & Anabelle by Suzy Kline Donovan’s Word Jar How to Be Cool in the 3rd Grade By Betsy Duffy
• Assign one home book project per
unit • Ten Important Sentences *manipulate sentences in proper sequence *practice reading-fluency 3.2D.5 • See Scott Foresman teacher’s manual
Unit 1 for additional leveled readers • Read other versions of Goldilocks –
compare/content using Venn Diagram • See Poetry in Wrap Up Section of
Unit 1 • See Literacy Activities for center idea • Use graphic organizers to identify
cause/effect • Word study • Cooperative group projects • Benchmark tests Genre Covered in Unit One • Tall tales • Drama • Magazine article • Poetry
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 2 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Reading - How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL C Students will be able to: • Demonstrate higher level
thinking skills and problem-solving skills by participating in extension activities.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation, by Mark Teague and / or Born to Rope, by Martha Cooper
• selected library books • selected web sites • Atlas
Students will select an area (city, country, etc.) and research how a child would spend time in that environment. Then students will write their own ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation’ placing themselves in this new environment. (e.g., ‘How I spent my summer vacation, if I lived in NYC’ or ‘if I lived in an Amish community, etc.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 3 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Reading - How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A Students will be able to:
• Apply skills taught in the unit in order to demonstrate knowledge on an individualized level.
• Intervention Handbook • 10 Important Sentences
• Use the Phonic Songs and Rhymes Chart
• Intervention Handbook, pg. 30 – Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
• Read each paragraph, cut / past, into sequential order, and illustrate.
• Put 10 important sentences into sequential order.
• Sequence pictures from the main selection.
• Students can verbally sequence the story, using order words such as first, next, and last.
• Eye Spy – Using the Phonics Rhymes and Songs Chart, students will listen to rhyme and play eye spy - finding the weekly phonics skill
• Main Idea/Supporting Detail – Copy select paragraphs from the main selection. Cut apart each sentence and require the students to identify the main idea and the supporting details.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 4 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Reading - How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
• Cause and Effect- Use graphic organizer to demonstrate knowledge and cause and effect.
• Selected Library Books • Encyclopedia • Vocabulary Frame from
Intervention Handbook
• Drawing Conclusions – Using a picture prompt, have the students draw conclusions on something that might be happening.
• Compare and Contrast – Using a graphic organizer compare and contrast a fictional bear to a non-fictional bear.
• Word Study – Vocabulary Web (This includes drawing a picture) Also, skim through the story to find the word and use context clues to determine the meaning of the word.
(These activities can be duplicated
for each unit.)
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 5 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Listening – How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Connect messages heard to prior knowledge and experiences
3.4.3 A1
• CD Set • Take An Audio Trip
• Building background
with audio and discuss sounds and make connections with story
• Listen to a speaker • Listen to stories on audio • Discuss why listening is
important talk about TV advertisements
• Create TV commercial
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 6 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Writing - How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
Students will be able to:
• Write events of story sequentially 3.2 D.5
• Write descriptive piece of person, place or object 3.2 B.1
• Write a narrative piece based on personal experience 3.2 B2
• Use graphic organizer to assist with planning writing 3.2 A3
• Use correct sentence punctuation using sentences, punctuation, spelling, capitalization 3.2C1
• Grammar and Usage – singular and plural nouns types, subject and predicate 3.2C3
• Write legibly in cursive to meet district standards 3.2 C6
• Implement Judy Gould’s 4 writing technique
• Use graphic organizers from Scott Foresman Reading Series
• Test Link book from Scott Foresman
Grammar Practice Book
• Pull picture prompts from stories for timed writing activities or journaling
• Use response logs and comprehension questions and test prep for each story.
• Use journals to complete quick-write activities in Scott Foresman manual
• Portfolio assessment
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 7 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 1 – Speaking – How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
Students will be able to:
• Contribute information, ideas, and experiences to classroom inquiry.
• Use appropriate strategies
to prepare, rehearse and deliver an oral presentation: word choice, expression, eye contact, volume
3.3.3 B2, D3
• Talk About It • Journal/Pair/Share • Postcards re: vacation • Paper bag autobiography • Read aloud stories and 10
important sentences 3.1D1, 3.1D.3
• Develop fluent reading –use tape recording
• Choral reading – poetry, dialogue
• Buddy Reading
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 8 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: UNIT: 1 – Viewing/Media Literacy – How do friends help us grow?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
Students will be able to:
• Begin to demonstrate an awareness of different media forms and how they contribute to communication; identify central theme and main ideas in different media
• Recognize effects of visual
arts on one’s mood and emotions and begin to explore and interpret messages
• Media Center Resources • Computer Lab • Leveled Readers • Classroom Library • Trade Books • Dictionaries • Thesaurus • Atlas
• Passport Projects, research/guided questions on continents
• Continent Posters • VCR tapes – version of
folktales, science videos and communities near and far
3.1.3 A1, 3 3.5.3 A3, B
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 9 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: UNIT: 2 - Reading - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Interpret info in graphs,
charts and diagrams • Use letter sounds and word
structure to decode words • Distinguish cause/effect,
fact/opinion, main idea/details in interpreting facts
• Compare and contrast story plots, characters, settings, themes
• Use pictures and context clues to assist with meanings of new words
• Recognize purpose of text • Summarize major points
from fiction and nonfiction • Diphthong ow • Vowel digraphs • Compound words • Identify vocabulary
meaning 3.1.3 B1, C2, F1-5, G1-3, 7, 10
• Big Book – From Seed to Plant
• See plant curriculum for info
• Fly Traps – Plants That Bite Back
• Guys From Space • Tornado Alert • Danger: Icebergs • Night of the Pufflings • Tundra info • Practice workbook • Top Secret by James
Reynolds Gardiner • Science curriculum -
photosynthesis
• Integrate plant unit here. • Integrate tundra information • Incorporate weather unit
record temps • See Science curriculum
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 10 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: UNIT: 2 - Reading - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL C Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking skills and problem solving skills by participating in extension activities
Unit 2 Stories
• selected web sites • selected library books • selected science textbooks • encyclopedias
Children will be assigned one of the topics in Unit Two. They will research all types of facts that have to do with numbers for that topic. Then they will create word problems that deal with the Venus flytraps, pufflings icebergs and weather etc. Then they will use the computer to type and illustrate their word problems and present them to the class.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 11 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: UNIT: 2 - Reading - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A Students will be able to: Apply skills taught in the unit in order to demonstrate knowledge on an individualized level.
• Realism and Fantasy – One group will draw a realistic character and another group will draw a fictitious character then compare and contrast them in a discussion format.
• Context Clues – Skim through the text to find the vocabulary word then underline the word and highlight the sentence. Use the highlighted word to determine the meaning of the word.
• Fact and Opinion – The students would receive an index card that says fact on one side and opinion on the other. The teacher will read a sentence from the story and the students must decide to hold up either fact or opinion.
• Main Idea and Supporting Details– (Revisit the main idea from Unit 1). Highlight the main idea of selected paragraph from the main selection.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 12 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 2 – Listening - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Listen to a story read aloud and/or information from television or film and summarize main ideas
3.4.3 B2
• Take an audio trip
• Follow directions with
science tapes (How to lesson)
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 13 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 2 – Speaking - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Use appropriate strategies to prepare, rehearse and deliver on oral presentation: word choice, expression, eye contact and volume
• Contribute information, ideas and experiences to classroom inquiry
• Use pictures to support an oral presentation
3.3.3 B2, D1,3
See teacher resource activities
• Oral presentation on plants
or animals of tundra
• Coop. group discussion
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 14 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 2 – Writing - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Revise a draft by rereading narrowing the focus, sequencing, elaborating, improving openings, closings, and word choice to show voice
• Write for a variety of purposes and audiences
• Write the events of a story sequentially
• Write a descriptive piece about a person, place or object
• Plural nouns • Access, view, evaluate
and respond to print, nonprint and electronic texts and resources
3.2.3 A5, B1, C3, D1,5; 3.5.3 A-B
• Implement Judy Gould’s 4 Square Writing Technique
• Use graphic organizers and writing transparencies from Scott Foresman B.2B.4
• Test link book from Scott Foresman
• Grammar PB • Practice book pages • Thesaurus • Reading Series • Texts- Science (plants,
weather) • Realistic fiction
Poetry
• Keep a Science journal • Write a description of a
place, obj. person • Response log • Write a humorous poem • Write a letter • Make a synonym and
antonym Game + ed 187F
• Look back and write • Write a report on Science
topic using 4 square
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 15 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 2 – Viewing and Media Literacy - How can we learn about and care for the world?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Access, view, evaluate and respond to print, nonprint and electronic texts and resources 3.5 A-B
• Thesaurus • Reading Series • Texts- Science (plants,
weather) • Realistic fiction • Poetry
• Research kinds of plants • Draw a diagram of a bean
seed and decide
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 16 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Reading – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Develop and use graphic organizers
to build on experiences and extend learning
• Use letter-sound knowledge and structural analysis to decode words
• Silent letters wr, kn, st, gn, mb
• R controlled vowels • Base words • Suffixes –ness
- ly - ful - ous
• Compare and contrast story plots, characters, settings and themes
• Summarize major points from fiction and nonfiction texts
• Identify vocabulary for meaning
The Gardner by Sarah Stewart (bigbook) What Do Authors Do? By Eileen Christelow Tops and Bottoms By Janet Stevens Mom’s Best Friend By Sally Hobart Alexander Brave As A Mountain Lion By Ann Herbert Scott Poetry Thesaurus Phonics Kit Your Dad Was Just Like You By Delores Johnson
1. Conduct an author study by
reading other books from same author
2. Play synonym game to increase vocab see tm 309F
3. Play synonym and antonym riddle game sec tm 327F
4. Write word analogies using vocab se tm 351f
5. Play antonym concentration se tm373f
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 17 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Reading – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
Students will be able to: • Distinguish cause/effect, fact
opinion, main idea/details in interpreting text
• Recognize how authors use humor, sarcasm, and imagery to extend meaning
• Draw conclusions and inferences from texts
• Demonstrate a sophisticated sense of sound – symbol relationship, including all phonemes
• Use pictures and context clues to assist with meanings of new words
3.1.3 B1, C2, E4, F1,5, G2,5,7,8,10
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 18 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Reading – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL C Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking skills and problem solving skills by participating in extension activities
Unit Three stories www.app.com Asbury Park Press digital camera
.Students will be given a list of jobs that are read about in Unit 3. They will be asked to prioritize the jobs from least to most important. Then they will write a multi paragraph essay with at least 3 justifications about what job they consider to be the most important on the list. Students will pretend that they have been hired by the Asbury Park Press to conduct the next interview for their weekly segment on jobs.
• Read articles from the Press about jobs people have either online or from the newspaper
• Interview a school employers and ask them the same questions that are asked in the Press. Take a picture with the digital camera. Then type up the interview.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 19 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Reading – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A Students will be able to: Apply skills taught in the unit in order to demonstrate knowledge on an individualized level.
• Five –Column Chart Pg.
33.
• Theme – Steps In A Process – Students will make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, explaining and completing each step as they go along.
• How To Project – Students will demonstrate and explain how to complete a project of their choice. They will record each step that they did on an index card.
• Summarizing – The students will determine the main idea of each page, and then put the main ideas together to make a complete summary.
• 4. Visualizing – Students will listen to a dictated story in which the student will interpret and draw.
• -After listening to a story summary, record what you see, hear, feel and taste on a five column chart.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 20 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Reading – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A - continued
• Touch and Feel Boxes • Generalizations – Create puzzles
with clue words for generalizations. Examples: always, never, everybody. Write a clue word and a corresponding generalization on a sentence strip. Match in a way that two puzzle pieces could be connected.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 21 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Listening – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Listen actively to information
from a wide variety of sources in a situation
• Listen to a story read aloud and/or info from TV/Film and summarize
• Follow two or three step directions
• 3.4.3 A, B1-2
• Unit 3 Story Series • Leveled Readers A-C • Audio tapes of stories
(listening tapes) • CD9, Tape 18 sides 1 & 2 • Poetry tapes
• Take an audio trip – visit a storyteller ted 286A
• Ted p 327e • Listen and summarize ted
351e
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 22 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Writing – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Revise a draft by rereading for
meaning, narrowing the focus, sequencing, elaborating with detail, improving openings, closings and word choice to show voice
• Respond to literature through writing to demonstrate an understanding of a text
• Write the events of a story sequentially
3.2.3 A5, D5, 7
• Implement Judy Gould’s 4
Square writing technique • Use graphic organizers from
Scott Foresman reading series • Test link book from Scott
Foresman • Scott Foresman Grammar
Practice Book • Scott Foresman Practice Book • Scott Foresman Ten important
sentences • Louise Braille excerpts (pg
326)
• Expository Writing and/or
“How To” writing to tell steps of an activity
• Portfolio assessment • Response logs • Journal writing • Compare/contrast two authors
writing styles (see 238b) • Simile activity (see pg 341) • Biography report (see pg
327d) • Compare/contrast two
characters (see pg 373.) • Make a book cover and write
summary (see pg 379)
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 23 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Speaking – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Listen and follow a discussion
in order to contribute appropriate
• Use vocabulary to retell a story
• Stay focused on topic – give directions
• Take turns: • Develop questions to explore a
topic and contribute to classroom inquiry
3.3.3 A1-3, B1-2, C1
• See Unit 3 Reading Series • Leveled readers A-C • Trade Books • Audio – CD Set for Unit 3
• Discuss steps in order • Develop fluent reading with
read alouds, buddy reads, guided reading groups
• Open for discussion questions. • Give directions to follow tasks • Listen and summarize • Make introductions • Present a talk show
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 24 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 3 – Viewing and Media Literacy – How can we learn from everything we do?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Access, view, evaluate, and
respond to print, nonprint, and electronic texts and resources
• Identify central theme and main ideas
• Demonstrate an awareness of different media
• Recognize the effects of visual arts on mood and emotion
• Explore and interpret messages
3.5.3 A-B
• Unit 3 – Reading series • Computer Tech lab • Media center support materials • Sfreading.com • Asbury Park Press, Observer
• Read a web site and see ted
book for work station activities
• Ted 327f Search the web then make a list of community helpers
• Compare and contrast events in nearby communities
• 327n-pictures and captions
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 25 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Reading – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Discuss underlying theme or
message in interpreting fiction • Demonstrate a sophisticated
sense of sound-symbol relationship including all phonemes (e.g. blends, diagraphs, diphthongs)
• Recognize grade-level words accurately Compare/contrast story plots, characters, settings and themes Participate in creative responses to texts (e.g. dramatizations, oral presentations)
• Distinguish cause/effect, fact/opinion, main idea/supporting details in interpreting texts
• Use letter-sound knowledge and structural analysis to decode words 3.1 C.2
• Red Bird by Barbara Mitchell
(big book) • Ananse”s Feast: An Ashonti
Tale by Tololwa M. Mollel • Sam and the Lucky Money by
Karen Chinn • Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacca
• One Grain of Rice by Demi
• The Woman Who Outshare the Sun by Alejandro Cruz Martinez
• The Fox and theStork play retold by Suzanne Borchers
• Poetry throughout unit • Phonics Kit • Alexander Who Used to
Be Rich Last Sunday
• Read, compare/contrast other fables to
depict characters, setting, morals/lessons, etc.
• Conduct on author Study by reading other books of same author (e.i. Patricia Polacco)
Genre: - play - folktale - fable See synonym activity (pg 87f) Vocabulary Word Web (see Transparency 5 or pg 64 b)
• Phonics Game (pg 37j) and phonics Chart 16
• Rate vocabulary knowledge (see pg 406 or transparency 26)
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Reading – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
• Set purpose for reading and
check to verify or change predictions during/after reading
• Use pictures and context clues to assist with meaning of new words
• Vocab for meaning 3.1.3 B1, C2, D1, E1, F1-5, G2, 6, 10, 11,
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 27 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Reading – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL C Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking skills and problem solving skills by participating in extension activities
Stories in Unit 4 Survey – Popular games What makes games a success
Create a board game that has a math theme.
• Survey types of games that people play and why they like them
• create a table to show what makes a game successful – skill, luck or a combination
• Collect information and analyze to create an original board game with math as its theme.
• Design the board, develop the strategy and the object of the game, create game pieces and questions as well as the rules for playing.
• Using the prototype, have the children play the game and evaluate it. Then make appropriate changes to improve it.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 28 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Reading – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A Students will be able to: Apply skills taught in the unit in order to demonstrate knowledge on an individualized level.
• Aesop’s Fable
• Theme – Aesop’s Fable– Students will get in groups and determine the theme of a fable.
• Setting -Take students to different locations throughout the school and discuss the different settings.
• Cause and Effect – Complete the same activity from unit 1.
- Do experimental activities and have the students identify the cause and the effect. For example: pop a balloon, drop an egg or feather. • Compare and Contrast- Complete the
same activity from unit 1. - Compare and Contrast Ananse’s Feast with One Grain of Rice. -Complete a character analysis for the characters in One Grain of Rice. • Act out the stories for a deeper
understanding. • Predicting – Complete a picture walk
before reading the main selection. The students will make predictions about what might be happening in each picture.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Listening – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Follow two and three step directions
• Listen to a story read aloud and/or info from TV or film and summarize main ideas
3.4.B1-2
Building Background Audio Tapes/CDs
See tm p 90a Listen to mult. Facts in a song to learn them.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 30 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Speaking – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Take turns • Use appropriate strategies
to prepare, rehearse, and deliver an oral presentation
3.3.3 A3, C1, D3
Unit 4 Story Series Leveled readers A,B,C
P. 145A Storytelling activity Share complex sentences about food See tmp. 115e Give directions to class using nonverbal communication see tm p 137e. Retell story using puppets
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SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Writing – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Write for a variety of purposes (inform, entertain, persuade) and audiences
• Respond to literature through writing to demonstrate an understanding of a text
• Revise a draft by rereading for meaning, focus, sequencing, detail, opening, closing and word choice
• Write as a product to result in work samples
• Use Std English conventions (sentences, punctuation, capitalization, spelling)
• Develop knowledge of English grammar sing. Plural nouns/subject/verb agreement/appropriate ports of speech
• Write legibly in cursive to meet district stds
• Develop English spelling through patterns, analysis, high frequency words
3.2.3 A5, B1-6, C1,3,6, D1, 7
Phonics Kit Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday • Grammar Practice
Books • Spelling Practice
Books • Cursive Practice
Books • See Reading Series • 4 Squares Writing
Method by Judy Guild
• TerraNova Test Link Book
• Daily oral language • See cursive handwriting • Teacher’s handbook • Grammar and spelling
practice pages • Grammar Quick Review • See Wrap Up Unit activities
Ted 142-143 • Portfolio assessment • See Practice book pages • Quick Write • Reader Response log • Look back and write • Character Sketch ted 37C-d • How to Report 137 o-t • Write a Report (Book,
Animal) Ted 61C & d • Character Journal Entry ted
87c-d • Write a narrative • Use 4 Squares to elaborate on
sentences • List Class Rules 137 c-d
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SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 4 – Viewing and Media Literacy – How can our traditions and the traditions of others make our lives more interesting?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to: • Access, view, evaluate and
respond to print, nonprint and electronic texts and resources
3.5.3 A1,2 3.5.3 B1,2
Scott Foresman website (sfreading.com) Videos Internet
1. View videos to determine
the purpose (to entertain, to inform, or to teach
2. Work in small groups to conduct internet search on graphics see tm 37f
3. Observe a TV commercial Determine main idea and details Evaluate effectiveness of commercial tm 61f
4. Evaluate artistic layout of story tmp.115f
5. conduct internet search of recipes using rice tmp 115f
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SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Reading – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Compare and contrast story plots, characters, settings and themes
• Draw conclusions inferences from texts Distinguish cause/effect, fact/opinion, main idea/fact opinion
• Use letter-sound knowledge and analysis to decode words
• Read aloud with proper phrasing, inflection, intonation
• Recognize how authors use humor, sarcasms and imagery Demonstrate a sense of sound-symbol relationships (blends, digraphs, diphthongs)
• Discuss theme or message to interpret fiction
• Reading Series Unit 5 • Practice Books • Phonics Kit
Stories:
• Flight: The Journal of Charles Lindbergh
• Chilr: A TrueStory from Japan/The Physical World
• Brave Irene/Water on Earth
• More Than Anything Else/$1.50 and a Dream
• Leah’s Pony
• Graphic organizers • Leveled readers A-C • Trade books
o Sylvester & Magic Rebble
o Doctor DeSoto o Biography of
Amelia Earhart
• Consonants c, ck, ch/k • Ed, ing • Build vocab with graphic
organizers • See PB pages • Preview/predict then pair and
share • Comprehension check • Reader’s Response Log • See guided comprehension
questions • Explore compound words ted
245f • Explore antonyms ted 267f • How to Read Biography ted
169 • Explore parts of Lindbergh’s
plane (vocab) ted 171f • Weather words 223f • Genre study biography and
autobiography • Explore synonyms ted 197f • Water cycle (Science Unit)
ted 222-23
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SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Reading – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
• Develop and use graphic
organizers to KWL and extend learning
• Know range of prefixes and suffixes
• Draw conclusions and inferences from texts
• Vocabulary for meaning 2.1.3 C2, G5 3.1.3 B1, C1, D3,E4, F1-5, G2,3,6, 8,10
• Phonics song and rhyme
audio • Thesaurus • Dictionary • Selection Audio
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SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Reading – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL C Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking skills and problem solving skills by participating in extension activities
Unit 5 stories Almanac Stately knowledge (type in the search box) www.50states.com
Select one of the states. Using one or both of the websites in the suggested Resources area, develop an internet scavenger Hunt where students will ask for specific facts about the state. For example – What is the population of Maryland? When completed they will exchange scavenger hunts. After answering every 2/3 questions correctly, the children will receive a letter of a secret word that has something to do with the state they are researching. This will continue until they have completed the hunt. At that point they will have all the letters to a secret word. They hand in the correct word for a prize.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 36 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Reading – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A Students will be able to: Apply skills taught in the unit in order to demonstrate knowledge on an individualized level.
Making Judgments- Provide a scenario that students can make judgments about. Fact and Opinion – Refer to unit 2 –Memory Game – Find fact and opinion matches. This can also be done with vocabulary. Predicting- Refer to unit 4 Plot – Picture Book – Students will show the beginning, middle and end of the story by creating a picture book. - Create the characters with clay and show how the character changes from beginning to end.
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Listening – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Connect messages heard to prior knowledge and experiences
• Unit 5 Story series • Leveled Readers A-C • Audio topics of stories • Poetry tapes
• Take an audio trip to
Tokyo, Japan • Practice phonetic isolation
for letter sounds (see 197) • Take an audio trip to build
background on story setting (pg 200a) CD 5/tape 12.
Side 1 • Listen to phonics songs
and rhymes Chart 23 (CD2Tape 12, Side1)
• Audio trip to build background on Booker T. Washington
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Speaking – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Listen and follow a discussion in order to contribute appropriately
• Stay focused on topic • Develop appropriate
questions to explore a topic
3.3.3 A1-2, B1
• See Unit 4 Reading Series • Leveled readers A-C • Trade books • Audio CD set for Unit 4
• Discuss steps in order • Develop fluent reading
with read alouds, buddy reads, guided reading groups, small group discussions
• Open for discussion quest • Listen and summarize • Present a news broadcast
(see 171C) • Perform a choral reading
of sections of a story or various poetry from unit.
• Conduct an interview • Discuss the viewing of a
weather forecast – perform own forecast.
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 39 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Viewing and Media Literacy – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of different forms of media and how they contribute to communication
• Identify central theme and main idea
• Recognize effects of visual arts on one’s mood and emotions
• Explore and interpret messages found in advertisements and text
3.5.3 A1-2, B1-2
• See reading series • Video of stories • Lindbergh’s and Amelia
Earthart books • Historical photos • Local newspapers • Biographies • Atlas • Technology lab • CD-ROM atlas • Sfreading.com • Video of Weather –Water
Cycle “At the Water Works” Magic School bus
• View a weather station • view historical
photographs ted 171f • Read and talk about
newspaper articles • See ted 171N • Create a Travel Brochure
ted 197f • Compare styles of
illustrations ted 197f • Watch a biographical video
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 40 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Writing – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Use grade appropriate knowledge of English grammar and usage to craft writing, singular and plural nouns, subject/verb agreement, appropriate parts of speech
• Write for a variety of purposes and audiences
• Examine real-world examples of writing in various genres to gain understanding of how authors communicate ideas through form, structure, and author’s voice
• Revise a draft by rereading for meaning, narrowing the focus, sequencing, elaborating with detail, improving openings, closings and word choice to show voice
• Use graphic organizers to assist with planning writing
• Graphic organizers • Grammar Practice
Book • Journals
• Write a newspaper article about Charles Lindbergh
• Maintain a response log to make predictions while reading
• Make postcards from Japan
• Write about an animal, using a topic sentence to state the main idea of each paragraph see TM p. 197C
• Use personification to describe the weather see tm p. 198g
• Maintain a weather journal • Write research notes on
snow and use them to write a description see tm p. 223C
• Write an ad to persuade • Write a research report
presenting facts and opinions and using reliable sources see tm p267C
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Writing – How can visits to other places and times make our lives better?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
• Write for a variety of purposes • Write nonfiction text
3.2.3 A2,3,5, C2, D1,9
• Create a timeline of
historic events sec tm p.267 N
• Make a travel poster see tm p. 272
• Make a diary entry see tm p. 273
• Portfolio assessment
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SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Reading – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Develop and use graphic organizers to build on experiences and extend learning
• Use letter sound knowledge and analysis to decode words
• Draw conclusions and inferences from text
• Compare and contrast story plots, themes, characters, settings
• Know sounds for a range of prefixes and suffixes
• Vocab for meaning • Recognize how humor, sarcasm,
and imagery extend meaning 3.1.2 C1,2, E4, F1-5, G8,10
• The Pinata Maker & Southwest Settlements
• Mailing May/Early Mail Delivery
• The Extra Good Sunday/A Pizza the Size of the Sun
• Floating Home/Spacewalk Talk
• TwoBads Aunts • Pandora’s Box • Practice books • Phonics Kit • CD Kit • Trade books/leveled
readers
• See skill lesson • Graphic organizers for
vocabulary/KWL • Preview, predict • See practice book pages • Guided comprehension
questions • Reader Response log and
comprehension check • Vocabulary explore
cultural words ted 297f • Regional vocabulary 319f • Predict word meanings in
context • Cooperative group projects • See assessment handbook
Genre Fiction and Nonfiction Fantasy and Myth Photo Essay
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Reading – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL C Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking skills and problem solving skills by participating in extension activities
Author Card web quest
Design Author cards (like baseball cards) about various authors that were studied throughout the year. Children will follow the author card webquest.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Reading – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
LEVEL A Students will be able to: Apply skills taught in the unit in order to demonstrate knowledge on an individualized level.
• Steps In a Process – -Construct a piñata. Assessment – write the steps to make a piñata. Extension – Give a cooperative group all the materials to create a piñata. Don’t give any instruction so you enable them to use their critical thinking skills to successfully construct the piñata. • Setting – Refer to unit 4. • Visualizing – Refer to unit 3 • Plot – Refer to unit 5 • Realism and Fantasy – Refer
to unit 2. • Two Bad Aunts – Sequence
the actual objects from the story in a time limit.
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Listening – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Listen to a story read aloud and/or information from TV or film, and summarize main ideas
• Paraphrase info shared by others • Listen to a story read aloud and
summarize main ideas 3.4.3 B2-3
• Reading Series • Audio Library of
selections • Collection for readers • Intervention Handbook
– Reading for Success
• Tell About It ted 297e • “Visit a Train Historian” on
CD 6, Tape 14, Side 1 • Listening for New Words
ted 341e • “Spacewalk Talk” ted 364 • listen to an oral report • “Visit with an Ant Expert”
ted 368a
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Speaking – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Adapt language to persuade, explain, or seek information
• Use vocabulary related to a particular topic
• Use appropriate strategies to prepare, rehearse and deliver an oral presentation
• Listen and follow a discussion in order to contribute appropriately
3.3.3 A1, C1, D3
• Students could make a craft and explain it to class (see tmp 297e)
• Act out a scene on a train (see tm 319 c)
• Have an imaginary phone conversation to tell each other about a place they would like to visit (see tm319f)
• Present an oral report to class
• Present oral report to a Kindergarten class – consider the audience
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 47 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Viewing and Media Literacy – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Begin to demonstrate an awareness of different media forms and how they contribute to communication
• Begin to explore and interpret messages found in ads & texts
3.5.3 A1, B2
• Children’s Magazine • Internet • Camera • Travel Brochures
• Review magazines to find
examples of how-tos (See Tm p278g)
• Create a photo essay of the school environment
• Research stamps from US Post Office on internet
• View travel brochures to select a location you would like to visit
• Visit author’s websites • Create a labeled diagram
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
Page 48 Numerical notations refer to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards 06/04
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Writing – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
The students will be able to:
• Revise a draft by rereading for meaning, narrowing the focus, sequencing, elaborating with detail, improving opening, closings and word choice to show voice
• Write non-fiction text (e.g. reports, procedures, letters)
• Respond to literature through writing to demonstrate an understanding of a text
• Write to express thoughts and ideas, share experiences and communicate
• Write for a variety of purposes (e.g. to inform, entertain, persuade) and audiences (e.g. self, peers, community)
3.2.3 A5, D1,4,7,9
• Judy Gould’s 4 square
writing method • Graphic organizers • Journals • Writing model • Transparencies 26 a-b • Writing Model • Transparencies 27 a-b • Writing Model • Transparencies 28 a-b • Writing Model • Transparencies 29 a-b • Writing Process • Transparency 26
• Write an invitation correlating to
the Pinata Maker or own parties • Write a “How To” essay utilizing
steps in a process • Response logs & journals • Narrative writing – describe a
typical school day … • Rewrite a passage from a
selection in another point of view • Write a letter home pretending
students are ”May” (see 298g) • Write a friendly letter to inform • Portfolio assessment • Lunchbox Surprise: write menus
for unusually creative meals – include directions and instructions to compile into class cookbook (see pg 320h)
• The Extra Good Sunday • Write a critique of literature
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DELIVERY LESSON
SUBJECT: Language Arts Literacy GRADE: 3
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UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 6 – Writing – How many ways can we use our imaginations?
Major Objectives Suggested Resources Suggested Activities/Assessment Techniques Teacher Comments
• Write a review • Write a persuasive letter about
traveling to a certain place (relate to Floating Home)
• Write a letter to solve a problem
in one of the stories