Books Nonfiction Reading Power, Adrienne Gear Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Nonfiction Text, Tony Stead Measures of Understanding – Reading Informational: [Sample Performance Tasks from Appendix B of the Common Core State Standards] Assess using reading passage and questions from 2011 Massachusetts Grade 3 Reading Comprehension Assessment “Pack Horse Librarians” Measures of Understanding – Writing: Student Exemplars from Appendix C of the Common Core State Standards. Student writings are annotated to show what students did well. Genre specific rubrics to score writing Prompt specific writing scored with NJ Registered Holistic Scoring rubric Unit 2: Topic: CCSS: Standards that are to be mastered by the end of the unit. Projected # of days RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story.
Interdisciplinary Connections: Science (The science in sports) / Social Studies (The Trail of Tears / Community Helpers) Technology Integration: (fables for students teach theme/moral) Key Vocabulary: Journeys Unit 3 Weekly Lists and theme, fable, moral, folktale, myth, central message, chapter, scene, visualize, infer, fact, opinion Key Writing Terms: stanza, linking words/phrases, idioms, homophones/homographs, figurative language Useful Sites: (various poems for discussion and interpretation, useful for teaching how some poems are organized into stanzas) (Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks) (Glossary of Key Terms and analysis of text complexity) (Samples of Student Writing) . (Scripts for Readers’ Theater) (Fables and Fairy Tales) (Lesson on literal and non-literal language using Amelia Bedelia) (Database of myths, folk tales, etc.) (Folktales, fables, and stories from around the world) Text Crosswalk: (Suggested texts for teaching fables) The Hungry Spider; The Tortoise and the Hare; Aunt Fox and the Fried Fish (Fables from around the world - analysis and writing lessons) Resources: Reading Literature Beyond Leveled Books, second edition, Karen Szymusiak, Franki Sibberson, and Lisa Koch The CAFÉ Book, Gail Boushey and Joan The Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 3: Daily Lessons-Monthly Units-Yearlong Calendar, Abi Gotthelf and Pam Allyn The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell A Curricular Plan for the Reading Workshop, Grade 3, Lucy Calkins (To access updated units free of charge, individuals may register or log in at www.readingandwritingproject.com) The Daily Five, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser The Fluent Reader, Timothy Rasinski Good Choice! Supporting Independent Reading and Response in K-6, Tony Stead Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell Guided Reading in Grades 3-6, Mary Browning Schulman The Inside Guide to the Reading-Writing Classroom, Leslie Blauman Teaching for Comprehending & Fluency: Thinking, Talking & Writing About Reading, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell Writing About Reading, Janet Angelillo
Board Lessons links: Key Vocabulary: Journeys Unit 4 Weekly Lists and character traits, compare, contrast, theme, point of view, cause, effect, author’s viewpoint, context clues Key Writing Terms: temporal words (such as before, after, next), closure, sequence of events, persuade Useful Sites: (Mapping characters across book series) (Writer’s workshop of study) (to be used with Journeys weekly stories/activities) (great website to supplement or differentiate to all styles of learners for reading and writing) (fun activities, enrichment for students) (games and activities to teach all aspects of Language Arts) Text Crosswalk: Reading - Journeys p. T58 – “Share and Compare Texts”; Writing – Journeys p. T59 “Extend Through Research”; Listening and Language – Journeys p. T59 “Listening and Speaking” Recommended Texts: Megan McDonald Read Aloud Books such as Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid (Candlewick Press, 2005) Judy Moody: Girl Detective (Candlewick Press, 2010) Judy Moody: And the not bummer Summer" (Candlewick Press, 2011) Judy Moody: And the bad luck charm (Candlewick Press, 2012) Resources: on Writing Guiding Readers and Writers, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell Making Revision Matter, Janet Angelillo Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children’s Literature K-6, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli Study Driven, Katie Wood Ray