English Language Arts Grade 3 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Writing (3.W)

Students will learn to write for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences using appropriate grammar/conventions, syntax, and style.

Standard 3.W.2:

Write informative/explanatory pieces to examine a topic that conveys ideas and information clearly, link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases, and provide a concluding statement.

• Class Pet Persuasive Essay
  This Class Pet Persuasive Essay is a fun engaging activity because students will be making a Spark Adobe Video as the cumutative assessment. The lesson plan goes through each step following the writing process of brainstorming, writing a rough draft, editing, revising and then a publish video. Graphic organizers are provided along with resources such as youtube, Utah Online Library, Wonderopolis, and google search articles, for students to use for information.
• Communities and Their Environment
  In this lesson students will write a research report about communities and how they use their environment. Students will use CultureGrams from the Utah's Online Library to complete their research. Main Thumbnail was found at: "The group of children, 1909" by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.
• 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
• Planet Research Project
  This is a lesson plan where students write an informational paragraph about a planet and create a project in Apple Keynote with pictures, audio and labels about the facts they found researching a planet. 
• Third Grade Writing Lesson #2 / Science Prompt
  Students will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines. They will then write a detailed description of that gadget.

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