Subject: ELA

Skills: Take literal interpretation of literary text to evaluation and synthesis. Analyze a character through dialogue, actions, and thoughts. Determine the main events and sequential order ...

Description: This fully-scripted Narrative bundle of 3rd grade ELA lessons includes 4 independent lessons based around a piece of Narrative Text about a little bear.  Your students will:

• Participate in active close reading and collaborative discussions with the support of sentence frames and text dependent questions
• Explore a character through dialogue, actions, and thoughts
• Determine sequence of events through a plot mountain
• Write an Fictional Narrative

CCSS: RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.4, RL.3.6

Description: Explore the life cycle of an apple tree and a pumpkin. Then use this engaging activity to help your students find the similarities and differences between the two.

Skills: Social Studies, Holidays, Listening & Speaking; Writing, Reading, Social Emotional

Description: Help your students to celebrate diversity and learn about the uniqueness that we each possess.

Skills: Social Studies, Holidays – Martin Luther King Jr., Listening & Speaking; Writing, Reading, Social Emotional

Description: Use this mini lesson with read aloud and center activity to have a meaningful discussion with your students on why it’s special we are different colors, and how we can also blend/mix together to live happily.

Description: A great activity for morning work, center work, partner practice, or for students who finish early. Students can practice creating compound words. (Grades 2-4)

Skills: Nonfiction Text Features

Description: Use this printable to help your students to identify common features within a nonfiction text they are reading.