Library Six Weeks At-A-Glance Theme Related Library Resources
Grade 3 Unit 5 Theme: Those Amazing Animals -What makes each animal unique? Integrated OC: Diversity OI: iKnow Diversity
Genre /
Technology / Media /
Comprehension Strategies and Skills /
Text Features/ Literary Elements/
Study Skills
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Writing
LT Topics /
IC: OI Guiding Questions /
5th Six Weeks OI:
iKnow Diversity
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Penguin Chick
by Betty Tatham
illustr. by
Helen K Davie / Main Selection
Informational Text/ Expository
Paired Selection
Literary Text/Poetry /
McGraw Hill
Tx Treasures
pp 273 I-J
MEDIA LITERACY
News as it happens..
How is written word use for digital news?
TERMS
graphics
paintbrush tool
fill tool
color palette
scanner
practice using tools and scanning
IC Lesson:
Entrepreneurs Who Mean Business research:
Websites of entrepreneurs / businesses, WalMart, Famous Amos, Mary K, Hershey, Ford
IC Lesson
What’s My Environment?
animal environments
Globio site
IC Lesson
Ladybugs, Frogs, Oh My!
Classroom lesson will use Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar
IC Lesson:
Here’s the Scoop
5 Areas of Researching a company – SEE Planner / Strategy
Summarize
Skill: Main Idea and Details
Spiral Review
Sequence / Rhythmic Patterns and Imagery / LTs: content and structure of a response paragraph.: Writing: details, quotations
Writing a Book Review: Fiction-
Selection, details
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How is our world dependent on diversity?
How is diversity important to the
economic growth of communities? / SCIENCE
Investigation &Reasoning
Skills
Organisms & Environment
Structures & functions,
habitats / survival
adaptation
Inherited traits & learned
behaviors
Life cycles, metamorphosis
SOCIAL STUDIES
Diversity
Economics
earning, spending, saving, and
donating
Goods & services
supply & demand
assembly lines
taxes & regulation
scarcity, allocation
Budgets, scarcity, Free Enterprise System
Free Market - USA
Entrepreneurs: Wallace Amos,
Henry Ford, Mary Kay Ash, Milton Hershey, Sam Walton
How a business operates
I Wonder Activities:
Social Studies
· Interview business people in Plano to learn more about the free enterprise system.
· Write a letter to a bank to learn more about spending and saving. Ask them to send you information that you can share with the class
· Research to learn about young entrepreneurs. Create a poster or digital presentation telling about the person.
Science
· Create and illustrate a book comparing life cycles of a variety of animals and insects.
· Invent an animal or plant and show its special adaptations.
· Create a skit with a plant and an animal as the main characters explaining how their structures and functions help them survive in their environment.
· Research an unusual plant or animal then create a television advertisement about the plant or animal.
A new grade level science vocabulary list and a K-5 social studies glossary has been added under the RESOURCES tab.
Animal Homes
by
Ann O. Squire / Main Selection
Informational Text/ Expository
Paired Selection
Informational Text/ Expository / Strategy
Analyze Text Structure
Skill: Description
Spiral Review
Main Idea and Details / Directions / Book Review: Drafting
Revising: sentence variety
Using the right word
Editing,
verb tense, apostrophes Publishing (evaluation)
Call of the Wild
Time For Kids Informational / Main Selection
Informational Text/ Expository / Strategy
Analyze Text Structure
Skill: Cause and Effect
Spiral Review
Description / Skim and Scan a Nonfiction Article / LTs: content and structure of a rhyming poem
plan, draft, revise, edit
Creative writing: Poems
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising, Editing: adverbs, modeling sentences, parts of speech, spelling
Wilbur’s Boast
by
E B White
illustrated by
Garth Williams / Main Selection
Literary Text/Fantasy
Paired Selection
Literary Text/Fable / Strategy
Monitor Comprehension
Skill: Draw Conclusions
Spiral Review
Cause and Effect / Personification
and Moral / Creative Writing - Poems:
Limerick
Clerihew
5 Ws poem
List poem
Unique Animals of the Southwest
by Tanya Lee Stone / Main Selection
Informational Text/ Expository
Paired Selection
Literary Text/Myth / Strategy
Monitor Comprehension
Skill: Compare and Contrast
Spiral Review
Draw Conclusions /
Foreshadowing / Responding to a Poem
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising,
Editing
Publishing
Show What You Know Spiral Review
-Cause & Effect
-Sequence
-Draw Conclusions
-Homophones
-Directions /
Poetry
/ Review/ Assess
Description
Main Idea
Draw Conclusions
Compare & Contrast
Cause & Effect / Review/ Assess
-Personification
-Rhythmic Patterns
-Imagery
-Multiple-Step Directions
Foreshadowing / LTs Content and structure of short stories and plays
Imaginative Stories
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising and editing
pronouns, dialogue
Imaginative stories
creating a play
McGraw–Hill TexasTreasures,, TE Grade 3; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, WriteSource