Leap Into LITERACY

[Pages:1]Leap Into LITERACY

Middletown Township Public Schools

Grade Level 3 | Issue 13 | Jan. /Feb. 2015

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The PARCC is Coming!

Be sure to use resources in your classroom to expose students to multiple accounts or sources beyond hard-copy texts as discussed at our last PLC Day. Below are the links for the guided practice and independent practice as well as the graphic organizer that were provided at the in-service:

Guided Practice

Graphic Organizer

Independent Practice

Collaborative Comprehension Spot Light on Instructional Strategies

The CCSS RL.3.3 states: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

When modeling this strategy, anchor charts, such as the one pictured, can be created with students to keep current learning on display and accessible to students. Below is a link to a graphic organizer for additional characterization work.

Graphic Organizer Characterization

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Working With Words:

Nouns & Verbs

CCSS: L3.1a-f

Visit the website ABCya to practice identifying nouns and verbs by playing Ice Cream Talk: Nouns and Verbs. The students will enjoy helping the monkey collect 10 scoops of ice cream before the monster can collect them!

Students must identify the nouns and verbs in sentences to collect the scoops. If 10 scoops are collected without any errors a bonus game will be awarded. This is a fun way to practice parts of speech!

Ice Cream Talk

Technology for Teachers

Teacher Talk

Book Corner & The Writing Lab

Access the YouTube links to hear the story The Day the Crayons Quit!

Read Aloud - Crayons Quit

Animated Orange Crayon-Student Creation

Collaborative Comprehension

The hyperlink below provides an additional graphic orgainzers for characterization study.

Free Graphic OrganizersCharacterization

Book Corner: The Day the Crayons Quit by: Drew Daywalt

If you are looking for a motivating mentor text to use for both reading and writing mini-lessons look no more! The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt, is a fun book told from the point of view of the crayons themselves. The book can be used for teaching many concepts including opinion writing, point of view, characterization and much more. Read it to your class and check out the links in The Writing Lab and Technology for Teachers sections of this newsletter.

The Writing Lab

Opinion Writing

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) delineate three types of writing:

? Narrative

? Opinion

? Informative/explanatory

The ELA Guidelines include both narrative and opinion writing pieces. Consider using a mentor text, such as The Day the Crayons Quit, as a motivating way to work on opinion writing with your class. (See The Book Corner below).

The link below accesses an Educator's Guide, published by Penguin Young Readers Group, which is aligned to the CCSS for The Day the Crayons Quit. This guide "will help you teach your students how to effectively interpret evidence, make an argument, and analyze its effect." Activities are listed for grades K-5.

Check out the lesson on pages 10-11 and use the graphic organizer and the acronym OREO to help students locate the Opinion, Reasons, Examples and Opinion Restated as a conclusion in opinion pieces. Have fun!

Crayons Quit Educator's Guide

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