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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: 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: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 45-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 3rd or 4th graders!  Using the 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
  • Synthesize key details in the text using text features
  • Summarize and apply their learning by designing their own "app"

CCSS: RI.3.1-3.5, 3.8 & RI.4.1-4.5, 4.8

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Brainstorm, plan and write their own informational ...

Description: We learn to infer from pictures first!  Perfect for multilingual children learning English, this 3rd Grade bundle of lessons (4 independent lessons 30-60 minutes each) is based around analysis of photographs and 2 informational texts.   Your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Brainstorm, plan and write their own informational "book"
• Participate in a science connection activity
• Write a Haiku poem based on glaciers and ice cubes

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4

Skills: Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice Ask and answer text dependent questions ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this literary bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 30-60 minutes each) is perfect to nurture oracy, fluency and comprehension!  Using the historical poem, "Star Spangled Banner," by Francis Scott Key that includes an historical explanation your students will:

• Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
• Ask and answer text dependent questions in order synthesize, summarize and infer
• Write a "book"  to demonstrate their understanding of poetic literary features forms and devices

CCSS: RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.6 & RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6