Grade Level: 3rd

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Determine the key details and setting Create ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this fully scripted bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 45-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 3rd graders!  Using the fable "Brog and the Rainbow" your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Determine the key details and setting
• Create a graphic novel that summarizes their understanding of the components of a fable

CCSS: RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.4 & RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

Skills: Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Practice using context clues to determine meaning of unknown ...

Description: Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this is a 1 hour fully scripted informational text lesson incorporates scaffolds and supports for student in oral language production and collaborative partner work.  Your students will:

• Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
• Practice using context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
• Determine key details and the main idea

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4 & RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames in order to... Practice using context clues ...

Description: Understanding the purpose of informational text features happens when our students infer their way to create their own from a text!  In this fully scripted 1 hour lesson using informational  text “Kid Apps” your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames in order to...
  • Practice using context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
  • Evaluate text feature purpose and function
  • Summarize the text

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, 3.5 & RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Create a graphic novel demonstrating their understanding ...

Description: Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this is a 1 hour fully scripted fable lesson incorporates scaffolds and supports for students by integrating drawing and sentence frames for oral language production and collaborative partner work.  Your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Create a graphic novel demonstrating their understanding of  sequencing, character analysis/qualities as well as identifying the moral/lesson

CCSS: RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3 & RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Determine the meanings of unknown words using ...

Description: Perfect for multilingual learners, this fable lesson supports oral language development with strategic use of sentence frames and collaborative work.  Your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Determine the meanings of unknown words using context clues
• Determine key details, and identify the central message/moral

CCSS: RL.3.1 RL.3.2,RL.3.3, RL.3.4 & RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Sequence the key details in the text ...

Description: Building reading for meaning, this 1 hour fully scripted close reading lesson based on an informational text “Kid Apps”, provides multiple scaffolds and supports for multilingual students learning English.  Your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Sequence the key details in the text
• Apply their learning by creating their own kid "app" idea

CCSS: RI.3.1,RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.8 & RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.8