English Language Arts Grade 3 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (3.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 3.R.5:

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (RL & RI)

• Annotate Text in Google Docs
  Students learn how to annoate text in Google Docs.
• From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
  Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
  Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then youand they can be confident that they understand it.
• Informative Writing Lesson Plan
  This is a lesson plan template created by an elementary teacher. It is meant to guide students on how to find the main idea and key details and eventually use it to write an informative paragraph. Remix this template if you use it for your purposes.When you edit each section, add how your students will use the lesson plans.Overwiew Image Citation: https://clipart-library.com/journal-writing-cliparts.html (from a free clipart site.)Photo also found at: http://www.artvex.com/browse.php?p=School
• Note Taking: Enhancing the Ability to Comprehend Nonfiction Text
  This article describes the importance of teaching students the strategy of note taking and includes a template for use with elementary students.
• Unplugged Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer (Ch. 5 - Hardware of a Computer)
  This is a computer science lesson plan created by educators in the South Sanpete School District. After reading Chapter 5 of Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer, students will describe the different components of a computer?s hardware by explicitly referring to the text. Next, students will act as different parts of a computer. The lesson is designed for third grade and includes modifications for grades K-5.
• Winter
  This lesson is designed for beginning writers to develop an understanding of opinion/persuasive writing. Students will examine a piece of work written by an author using opinion writing. Students will be guided through how to use a graphic organizer to help organize their writing and to assure all the proper elements have been included in their opinion writing. Students will be able to demonstrate competency towards standard by generating written or pictorial responses."Winter" by Sarah Mitchell, February 2022, Public Domain.

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