3-Language

3rd Grade — Language Arts

Reading and writing are taught explicitly during dedicated times each week. We use Lucy Calkins Writing and Collaborative Classroom Making Meaning in third grade.

Reading

Making Meaning

• The Reading Community
• Visualizing – Poetry and Fiction
• Making Inferences – Fiction
• Wondering/Questioning – Narrative Non-Fiction and Expository Non-Fiction
• Using Text Features – Expository Non-Fiction
• Determining Important Ideas – Expository Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Drama

Approaches to Learning

• Collaborative Classroom Making Meaning
• Guided reading
• Read alouds
• Shared reading
• Independent daily reading

Writing

Units of Study

• Crafting true stories
• Information writing
• Arctic animal report
• Fairy tales

Being a Writer

• The writing community
• The writing process
• Personal narrative
• Fiction
• Expository nonfiction / functional writing
• Opinion writing
• Poetry

Approaches to Learning

• Handwriting Without Tears
• Generate ideas
• Write drafts
• Select draft to develop
• Analyze and revise
• Proofread
• Write final version and publish