3rd Language Arts

 

 

 

Subject ___Language Arts________                    GREENEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS - CURRICULUM MAPPING GRID                                        Grade Level: ___3____

 

 

MONTHS

 

 

 

 

STRANDS

 

 

August

 

September

 

October

 

November

 

December

 

January

 

February

 

March

 

April

 

May

 

 

Reading

Development

 

 

 

*How I Spent My Summer Vacation *Anthony Reynose: Born To Rope

 *Herbie and Annabelle

 

*Distinguish individual sounds including consonant blends within words

*Rules for conversation

*Understand, follow, and give oral directions

*Summarize

*Listen to speaker

*Listen to and respond to a variety of media

*Visit libraries and regular check out materials

 

 

*Allie’s Basketball Dream

*Fly Traps! Plants That Bite Back

*Guys From Space

 

*Recognize grade appropriate vocabulary within context

*Select appropriate synonyms and antonyms

*Multiple meaning words

*Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondence knowledge and structural analysis to decode

*Decoding strategies

*Use self-correction strategies while reading

*Tornado Alert

*Danger-Icebergs

*Nights Of The Puffings

*What Do Authors Do?

 

*Identify and/or select rhyming words

*Questions to focus and clarify thinking while reading

*Respond to questions from teachers and other group members

*Participate in creative responses to text

*Recognize the stated/implied main idea of the text

*Give oral presentations about experiences

*Tops and Bottoms

*Mom’s Best Friend

*Brave as a Mountain Lion

 

*Determine word meaning within context using prefixes and suffixes

*Word meanings through the use of context clues

*Relate literary experience

*Draw conclusions based on evidence

*Predict outcomes

*Create a mental image

*Determine the problem in a story

*Decode multi-syllabic words not yet known as sight words

*Your Dad Was Just Like You

*Ananse’s Feast

 

*Recognize root words and their various inflections

*Parts of a book

*Expanding oral language through vocabulary growth

*Build vocabulary by listening to literature

*Add, delete, and change targeted sounds to modify or change words

*Build vocabulary by reading

*Identify a purpose for reading

*Preview text using illustrations

*Discuss author’s purpose for writing

*Sam and the Lucky Money

*Thunder Cake

*One Grain of Rice

 

*Fact and Opinion

*Main Idea

*Inferences

*Recognize the difference in formal and informal languages

*Develop awareness of sounds of language

*Manipulate word walls

*Apply skills and strategies to comprehend information text

*Discuss similarities and differences in text events, characters, and charactere actions

*The Women Who Outshone The Sun

*Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindergh

*Chibi: A True Story from Japan

 

*Setting, characters, and plot

*Problem in a story

*Read with increasing fluency

*Participate in guided oral reading

*Participate in activities to build background knowledge to make meaning from text

*Make predictions using text features

*Explore the concept of first person

*Recognize and use common text features

Charolette’s Web ®

 

*Brave Irene

*More Than Anything Else

*Leah’s Pony

 

*Sequence of events  in a story

*Identify stated cause and effect relationships

*Express reactions and personal opinions in response to a selection

*Read for literary experience and enjoyment

*Understand the main idea or message in visual media

*Differentiate between main and minor characters

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*The Pinata Maker

*Mailing May

*The Extra Good Sunday

 

Identify different forms of text

*Recognize how illustrations support text

*Demonstrate the automatic recognition of high frequency words

*Identify types of stories

*Compare and contrast different versions of similar stories

*Develop and maintain content specific vocabulary

*Floating Home

*Two Bad Ants

 

*Plot features of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths

*Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using context clues, dictionaries and other resources

*Explore the ways in which language is used in literary texts

*Recognize and use parts of text

*Use outside resources to access information

*Use text referenced material

 

 

Writing

 

 

*Write in complete sentences using descriptive language

*Incorporate photographs or illustrations

*Choose the most specific word to complete a simple sentence

*Rearrange a story sequentially with a logical beginning, middle, and end

*Write  brief descriptions of real objects, person, place or event

*Brainstorm ideas with peers

*Identify the purpose for writing

Complete a simple graphic organizer to group ideas for writing

*Choose a topic sentence for a paragraph

*Choose a supporting sentence

*Write in response to a narrative prompt

*Compose first drafts using appropriate parts of the writing process

*Identify the audience for which a text is written

*Select the best title for a text

*Identify unnecessary information in a paragraph

*Write an account based on personal experience that has a clear focus and supporting details

*Use a variety of sources to gather information

*Write a different ending to a story

*Develop a paragrph with a topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentence

*Use technology to publish writing

*Write stories that have a beginning, middle, and end

*Write to express opinions and judgments

*Record and evaluate suggestions and reactions with peers

*Evaluate own and others’ writing through small group discussion

*Participate in shared writings about the arts and personal activities

*Identify the purpose for writing

*Recognize positive features and give feedback to peers

*Use a rubric to evaluate own and others’ writing

*Write in math journals

*Write a variety of poems, a friendly letter, and in a journal

*Write for personal enjoyment using individual expression and creative imagination

*Gather and record information on a topic

*Write key thoughts and questions

*Identify the most reliable source for information

*Identify opportunities for publication

*Compare characters, settings, and events within and between stories

*Write a descriptive paragraph, a narrative paragraph, a how to paragraph and compare contrast paragraph

*Revise writing to improve detail after determining what could be added or deleted

*Develop a paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentence

*Use correct page format

Review personal collection to determine progress

*Produce a variety of written works

*Create individual and classroom books, stories, and poems

Spelling

 

 

*Short vowels

*Vowel-Consonant-e  Pattern

*Long vowel spelling

*Long o sound

*Three letter clusters

*Spelling the long I sound

*Vowel sound in clown

*Vowel sound in lawn

*Unexpected consonant patterns

*Vowel plus r sounds

*Vowel plus r sounds

*Vowel sound in coin

*Spelling the j sound

*Spelling the k and kw sounds

*Vowel plus r sounds

*Homophones

*Compound words

*Words that end with ed or ing

*Changing final y to i

*Prefixes re and un

*Suffixes ful, ly, and er

*VCCV Pattern

*Double consonants

*Spelling the s sound

*Vowel sounds in tooth and cook

Vowel sound in bought

*Words that end with er and le

*Words that begin with a or be

*Contractions

 

Grammar

 

 

Understanding Sentences

Recognizing sentences and fragments

Review subjects

 

Review subjects

Subjects and Predicates

Punctuate Imperative & Exclamatory

Nouns

Nouns and subjects

Singular and Plural nouns

Revisit possessive nouns

Understand predicates

Actions verbs

Present tense verbs

Be Verbs in Present

Complete subjects

Using commas

Prefixes

Combing Sentences

Contractions

Object Pronoun

Pronouns

To be Verbs

Subject Pronoun

Possessive Pronouns

Using I & Me

Object pronouns

Prepositions

Compound sentences

Adjectives

Adverbs

 

Adverbs Tell How

 

Mechanics

 

Writing and editing sentences

Using correct word order

 Punctuate statements and questions

*Identify the correct use of nouns

*Identify correctly spelled words in context

*Apply elements of language

*Spell high frequency words correctly

*recognize complete sentences

Identify Subjects and Predicates in Sentences, Statements and questions

*Recognize grade level compound words, contractions, and common and abbreviations within context

*Use capitalization when writing names and dates

*Use capitalization when writing cities and states, addresses, holidays, and titles

Nouns in a sentence

Form regular and plural nouns

Pull predicates from sentences

Identify correctly used capital letters in names, dates, and addresses

*Use correct punctuation

*ABC order

Use verbs in sentences

Using verb tenses correctly

*Recognize correct capitalization and end punctuation with context

*Select simple subject and predicate

*Use dictionary to identify spelling

Use forms of regular verbs

Use complete subjects

Use adjectives to describe objects

*Use the correct formation of contractions and plurals with in context

*Use adjectives

Use comparative and superlative adjectives

to illustrate comparisons

Identify the correct use of commas with dates and addresses

*Identify declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences

Possessive nouns

Use a capital letter to name a special person,

place  or  thing.

Use a capital letter for days, months, and holidays.

Use a capital letter for the word I.

Form contractions by combining words

*Formand spellin contractions, plurals, and possessives correctly

Use the correct ending to form possessive nouns

*Recognize usage errors occurring with context

*Select the best way to combine sentences

Use adjectives and adverbs in descriptive writings

*Select the compound sentence that correctly combines two simple sentences

*Combine sentences using compound subjects and predicates

Use adverbs in sentences telling how

*Use adverbs

 

Research/

Presentation

 

Sequence (retell the order of events in a story), parts of a book

Deliver a speech

 

Do a research project

Responsive readings

Story telling

Oral reading of prepared piece

Following Written and give Oral Directions

 

Give a good description

Have a discussion and conversation

 

Retell a story by giving a summary review

Act out and give a summary

Pantomime a story read by classmate

Make introductions

Read a story to the class

 

Speaking/

Listening

 

Talk About It P.14

CD 1/Tape 1, Side 1 Talk About It P. 70

CD 1/Tape 2, Side 1

CD 1/Tape 2, Side 2

 

CD 1 Tape 2, Side 1

CD 1 Tape 2, Side 2

CD 1 Tape 3, Side 1

CD 2 Tape 4, Side 1

CD 2 Tape 5, Side 1

CD 2 Tape 5, Side 2

CD 3 Tape 6, Side 1

CD 3 Tape 6, Side 2

CD 3 Tape 7, Side 1

CD 3 Tape 8, Side 2

CD 3 Tape 8, Side 1

CD 4 Tape 8, Side 2

CD 4 Tape 9, Side 1

CD 4 Tape 9, Side 2

CD 4 Tape 10, Side1

CD 4 Tape 10, Side2

CD 4 Tape 10, Side 1 CD 5 Tape 11, Side1

CD 5 Tape 11, Side 2

 

CD 5

CD 5

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CD 6

CD 6

CD 6

CD 6

CD 6

 

 

Related

Literature

SRA Lab, Tall Tales

*The Wild West

*Tad Lucas, Cowgirl

 

*Basketball

*My Favorite Sport

*Anne’s Plants

*Seed Surprises

*Your New Planet

*Cynthia Rylant:A Writer’s Story

*Raven and Loon

*A Foggy Flight

*Weather & Climate Guide

*From Top To Bottom, Carving A Totem Pole

*How Coyote Gave Fire To People

 

*Jane and the Jungle

*Junior

*Elli on her Own

*Grandma’s Giggle

 

*Crash! Flash

*The Storm

*Amber: The Golden Trap

*The Fisherman and the Fish

*Charolette’s Web®

*On Grandaddy’s Farm

*Mickey’s Garden

*A Pig Mystery

*Do Animals Know

 

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*Akiko’s Kite

*Otto’s Mess

Poetry Types

Narrative Poetry

Clerihew

Diamonte

*Gone!

 

Field Studies

 

 

 

 

Little Theatre Production

 

 

 

 

 

Charolette’s Web Play

 

 

 

 

 

Technology

Accelerated Reader ®

 

CCC ®

 

 

BFG Video

 

 

 

Charlotte’s Web Video

 

 

 

Assessment

 

 

Write a magazine article using proper mechanics

Written Test

Write a journal entry with correct paragraph composition and a conclusion

Read a book for pleasure and give a report

Written Test

Describe the plot and setting of BFG and make a brochure

Written Test

Write a point of view on a political issue.

Written Test

Predict the outcome of the Boxcar Kids after reading the third chapter

Written Test

Written Test

Post cards from the ocean

Predict the outcome of a current event

Written Test

Debate

Written Test

Write a poem describing third grade

Written Test

Third grade writing assessment