3rd Grade - DePaul University
3rd Grade
THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Third Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
|READING LITERATURE |READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION |
|KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS |KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS |
|1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text |1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the |
|as the basis for the answers. |basis for the answers. |
|2. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the |2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. |
|central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. | |
|3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how |3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in|
|their actions contribute to the sequence of events. |technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect |
|CRAFT AND STRUCTURE |CRAFT AND STRUCTURE |
|4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from|4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a |
|nonliteral language. |grade 3 topic or subject area. |
|5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms |5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant |
|such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. |to a given topic efficiently. |
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification)
Note: This emphasis aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading
CCSSW3.1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
• Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
• Provide reasons that support the opinion.
• Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
• Provide a concluding statement or section.
Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
| |Week 20 |Week 21 |
|Reading Literature |How do you read a story? Guide students to clarify their strategies to |How do you read a story |
|CCSSRL.3.1 |read a story. |What strategies do you use to: |
|Infer with evidence |What strategies do you use to: |Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish |
|and |Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it.|it. |
|Writer’s Craft and Structure |Analyze causes and effects, problem + solution |Analyze causes and effects, problem and solution, turning point. |
| |Infer feelings, traits, predictions. |Infer feelings, traits, predictions. |
|In preparation for ISAT, read comprehensively |Figure out the theme |Figure out the theme |
|Science |How do you read nonfiction? Recommended: Have students “think out loud” |How do you read nonfiction? Recommended: Have students “think out loud”|
|5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, |about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this |about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this |
|sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a |week, ask analytic questions. |week, ask analytic questions. |
|given topic efficiently. | | |
|Social Science |Collect information to respond to BIG question. |Use nonfiction text features to collect information to respond to big |
|5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, |Recommended: Focus on Black History |question—recommended—focus on black history. |
|sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a | |Analyze how headings and illustrations clarify meaning. |
|given topic efficiently. | | |
|Fluency |This week’s read-aloud: |This week’s read-aloud: |
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|Word Knowledge |Figurative language |Antonym |
|CCSSRI.3.4 | |synonym |
|Classify vocabulary | | |
|Writing |Outline then write extended response |Outline then write extended response |
|opinion | | |
|MATH |Focus: |Focus: |
|Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it | | |
| |Short response |Short response |
| |Extended response |Extended response |
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| |My own guide to problem solving |My own guide to writing an extended response |
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
| |Week 22 |Week 23 |
|Reading Literature |How do you read a poem? |How to answer questions: |
|CCSSRL.3.2 |Guide students to clarify their strategies to interpret a poem. |Explain how to choose the best answer to analytic and inferential |
|Determine central message |Include analysis of use of figurative or descriptive language in stories.|questions: |
|and | |Identify genre |
|Writer’s Craft and Structure | |identify kinds of questions |
| | |Infer meaning of a word from context |
|In preparation for ISAT, read comprehensively | |Analyze author’s purpose and techniques |
|Science |Students analyze technical text—directions for a science experiment or |Make your own guide to reading nonfiction. |
|3. Describe the steps in technical procedures in a text, using|directions on a procedure such as measurement. | |
|language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect | | |
|Social Science |Students respond to questions based on ISAT stems, responding with |Make your own guide to figuring out the main idea of a nonfiction |
|2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details |text-based evidence. |passage. |
|and explain how they support the main idea. |Recommended: Relate to Black History |Recommended: Relate to Black History |
|Fluency |This week’s read-aloud: |This week’s read-aloud: |
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|Word Knowledge |Root/base word, suffix, prefix |Infer from context. |
|CCSSRI.3.4 | | |
|Analyze word patterns | | |
|Writing |Write an extended response |Write directions: how to write an extended response |
|opinion | | |
|MATH |Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math |Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math|
|Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it |What is the question asking me to figure out? |What is the question asking me to figure out? |
| |What strategy and operations will I use? |What strategy and operations will I use? |
Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
| |Week 24 |Week 25 |
|Reading Literature |Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer? |Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story. Then |
|5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing | |tell how the writer uses techniques to communicate the lesson or theme. |
|or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, | | |
|and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on | | |
|earlier sections. | | |
|Science |Skills: |Skills: |
|CCSSRI.3.1 |Analyze kinds of questions. |Outline a non-fiction passage—ideas and supporting information. |
|Analyze | | |
| | |Topic: |
| |Topic: | |
|Social Science |Skills: |Skills: |
|CCSSRI.3.1 |Analyze kinds of questions. |Outline a non-fiction passage—ideas and supporting information. |
|Analyze | | |
| | |Topic: |
| |Topic: | |
|Fluency |This week’s read-aloud: |This week’s read-aloud: |
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|Word Knowledge |Words of hope |Words about reading. |
|CCSSRI.3.4 | | |
|Analyze word patterns | | |
|Writing |Write a poem or letter |Write about a topic—opinion paragraph or poem. |
|opinion | | |
|MATH |Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? | |
|Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it |How do you Analyze to solve them? | |
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| |Math Digest | |
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| | |Math Digest |
Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
| |Week 26 |Week 27 |
|Reading Literature |Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story – choose a |Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story – choose a|
|CCSSRL.3.2 |genre to analyze.. Then tell how the writer uses techniques to |different genre to analyze. Then tell how the writer uses techniques to |
|Summarize and infer theme |communicate the lesson or theme. |communicate the lesson or theme. |
|Science |Reading Skills |Reading Skills |
|CCSSRI.3.2 |Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. |Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main |
|Analyze ideas | |idea “your way”. |
| |Topic: | |
| | |Topic: |
|Social Science |Reading Skills |Reading Skills |
|CCSSRI.3.2 |Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. |Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main |
|Analyze ideas | |idea “your way”. |
| |Topic: | |
| | |Topic: |
|Fluency |This week’s read-aloud: |This week’s read-aloud: |
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|Word Knowledge |Identify contractions in reading. Make a contractions chart. |Identify possessives in reading. Make a “guide” to writing with |
|CCSSRI.3.4 | |possessives. |
|Analyze word patterns | | |
|Infer from context | | |
|Writing |Outline a story that communicates a position; emphasis on maintaining a |Write the story. |
|opinion |main idea or theme | |
|MATH |Focus: |Focus: |
|Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it | | |
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| |Math Digest |Math Digest |
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
| |Week 28 |
|Reading Literature |Make a guide to reading a story. Use it to read an unfamiliar story. |
|CCSSRL.3.2 |Make a genre chart: give examples of the different genres you have read. List features|
|Summarize and infer theme |of each kind of genre. |
|Science |Write a report: |
|CCSSRI.3.2 |What have I learned about science this quarter? |
|Analyze ideas | |
|Social Science |Write a response to the big question of the unit or quarter. |
|CCSSRI.3.2 | |
|Analyze ideas | |
|Fluency |This week’s read-aloud: |
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|Word Knowledge |Make a guide to interpreting multi-meaning words in context. |
|CCSSRI.3.4 | |
|Analyze word patterns | |
|Infer from context | |
|Writing |Write a guide to writing to communicate a position—opinion or moral. |
|opinion | |
|MATH |Focus |
|Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it | |
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| |Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter. |
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