Third Grade Level Concept Map 2012-2013

Campus: / Norton / Grade: / Third / School Year: / 2012-2013
1st Nine Weeks Aug.27-Oct.19 / 2nd Nine Weeks Oct.22-Dec.21 / 3rd Nine Weeks Jan.8-Mar.22 / 4th Nine Weeks Mar.25-June 6
Reading Skills / Launching Reader’s Workshop
Organize reader’s notebook, book logs, building schema, making connections, choosing “just right” texts, talking and listening, fix-up strategies, responding to reading, launching schema, fiction and non-fiction
Begin Plot Structures within Genre Studies / Continue Plot Structures within Genre Studies
Characteristics of fables, folk tales, fairy tale, legend, drama, and narrative poetry, compare and contrast settings, use story structure to develop comprehension and summarize stories, sequence plot
Inferring Through Character Analysis
Infer to make predictions, infer to determine cause and effect in character relationships, infer to draw conclusions, understand character relationships more deeply / Non-Fiction with Strategy Instruction
Explore literary elements of non-fiction, discover non-fiction text features, determine important information in non-fiction, summarize non-fiction text, identify main idea and supporting details of non-fiction
Author’s Purpose
Identify author’s purpose in non-fiction, draw conclusions to form fact and opinion, look at forms of media, compare/contrast biography and autobiography, humorous, concrete, and lyrical poetry / Read various types of poetry, appreciate the sounds of poetry, The reader will attend to the poet’s message. Compare and contrast poems, Establish book clubs, Establish, norms, routines, and rules for Book Clubs, Develop personal direction with a project of choice, Book projects, More practice using Non-Fiction questions in book clubs. Inroduce, model and practice Non-Fiction journal prompts to use for questioning.
Language Arts / Launching Writer’s Workshop
Introduce elements of writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, create Writer’s Notebook, complete sentences, ending punctuation
Begin writing Personal Narrative / Continue writing personal narratives
Develop small moment, present and past tense verbs, singular and plural nouns, common and proper nouns, subject-verb agreement, adjectives, create editing checklist, publish final draft and share
Writing to Develop Story Structure
Develop story that follows plot structure, revise leads and endings, add dialogue, paragraph breaks, combining short sentences, apostrophe / Informational Writing and Research
Think of good questions, take notes, use many sources, time order words
Persuasive Essays and Letter Writing
Choose a side to defend, write to persuade someone of stance on a social issue, piece of literature, develop multiple paragraphs / Literary Essays
Elaborate a claim about character or book read, support claim with evidence from text, develop multiple paragraph response to literature
Writing Poetry and Memoirs
Analyze poetry language, look for sensory images and details in poems, write various types of poetry, develop memoir based on significant memory in life, use grammar learned this year to edit drafts
Spelling / High Frequency Words, CVC Patterns, CVCe, Plurals: -s, -es, -ies, Open Syllables, Drop e, adding –ing, -ed words, Doubling consonants, Comparative adjectives –er, est, Dictionary Skills-Alphabetize to the 1st and 2nd letter / Irregular Plural Nouns, Change final y, Prefixes, Irregular Plural Nouns Ex. wolf, woman, Using prefixes, Using synonyms , Consonant digraphs, Homophones, Compound words, R-controlled vowels, Contractions, Dictionary Skill-Guide Words / Suffixes- en, ly, ment less, ion, Identifying root words, silent letters, common spelling patterns, soft g/j/ , soft c/s/, Word Structure ea, eap, eep, ear, eer, eu, oo, ew, Prefixes-im, in, Word Structures: ute, oot, oak, oke, one, oan, Words with same sound, spelled differently / Word Sorts ng, nk, Words with long a, e, I, o, u in spelling patterns, Final stable syllables –ble, -fle, -etc. syllables –ble, -fle, -etc. Word Patterns with long vowels, a, e, I, o, u, Words with able, and ible.
Math / Place Value
Compare, Order and Round Numbers
Addition, Choose an Operation, Compatible Numbers / Addition, Choose and Operation, Compatible Numbers
Subtraction, Choose an Operation, Compatible Numbers
Money
Time
Data and Graphs
Algebra Patterns
Multiplication, Tables and Area / Multiplication, Tables and Area
Division
2D Figures, Congruence and Symmetry
3D Figures
Measuring Length and Temperature
Fractions / Fractions
Probability
Multiply 2 Digit by 1 Digit
Measuring Weight, Capacity, Mass and Volume
Social Studies / Citizenship
Communities / Government
Economics
Celebrations / Inventors
Entrepreneurs
Map Skills / Physical Environments
Cultural Heritage
Science / Safety/Scientific Processes
Matter & Energy
Force and Motion /

Force and Motion

The Solar System

/ Patterns and Systems
Organisms and Environments / Earth Science

THIS IS A PLAN. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS.