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Third Grade Curriculum

 

 

Reader's Workshop, Reading Flex Groups, & Reading Room

 

Reader's Workshop​

  • Mini-lesson (10-15mins)

    • focuses on a specific strategy or skill 

  • independent work time (40 mins)

    • ​just-right books

    • guided reading

    • teacher conferring

    • responding

  • share time (5 mins) 

    • time to share our hard work

  • Reading Flex Groups 

    • 30 minutes 5 days a week​

    • Based on NWEA MAP scores 

    • flexible grouping 

  • Reading Room 

    • 30 minutes 5 days a week ​

    • Meet with reading room teachers 

    • Shared Reading/Author Studies

    • flexible grouping based on MAP scores

  • Reading Topics/Skills

    • Character Traits​/Analysis

    • Sequencing

    • Point of View

    • Nonfiction text features

    • Nonfiction text structures

    • Folk tales

    • Responding to Reading 

    • Drama

    • Poetry

    • Figurative Language 

    • Novel Studies 

    • Context Clues

 

Writer's Workshop

 

  • Mini-lesson (10-15mins)

    • focuses on a specific strategy or skill 

    • Lucy Calkins

  • independent work time (35mins)

    • ​working through the writing process

    • teacher/peer conferring

    • assisted writing

  • share time (5 mins) 

    • time to share our hard work

  • Writing Units

    • Personal Narratives​

    • Opinion Writing

    • Biographies

    • 5 paragraph essays 

    • Extended written response 

    • Dinosaur Informational books

Words Their Way

 

  • differentiated word study groups 

  • variety of sorts to complete every 2 weeks 

    • word sort choice board (iPad apps)

    • speed sort

    • sentence writing 

  • Understanding of words is demonstrated through

     sort activities that require explanation and higher

     order thinking

 Math

 

  • enVision Math 2.0

    • Solve and Share​

    • Visual Learning 

    • Guided Practice 

    • Independent Practice

    • Mathematical Problem Solving

    • Lesson quick checks

    • Center Games

    • Online Games

    • Pearson Realize Platform 

    • Practice Buddy 

    • Adaptive homework

  • NWEA MAP/Common Core Alignment 

    • Operations & Algebraic Thinking​

    • Numbers & Operations in Base Ten

    • Numbers & Operations in Fractions

    • Measurement & Data 

    • Geometry

 

  • MATH Rotations 

    • Teacher Time (At the Carpet)

    • At Your Seat (IXL/Compass Learning/XtraMath) 

  • Math Flex Groups 

    • 40 minutes 4 days a week based on NWEA MAP scores​

    • Flexible grouping 

 

 

Themes

 

Social Studies

  • Communities/Maps

  • United States of America

  • Landforms

  • Biographies

 

Science

  • Severe Weather 

  • Dinosaurs and Fossils

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