Readygen: G3 U1 Modules a and B Vertical Standards Map Templatenot FINAL

ReadyGEN: G3_U1_ Modules A and B_Vertical Standards Map TemplateNOT FINAL

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GRADE 3 – UNIT 1 OBSERVING THE WORLD AROUND US
MODULE A / MODULE B
Anchor and Supporting Texts / Anchor and Supporting Texts
The Case of the Gasping Garbage 460L
Supporting Texts
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco 630L
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies 630L / At the Root of It 690L
Supporting Texts
Let’s Classify Organisms 860L
The Moon Seems to Change by Franklin M. Branley 470L
Student Resources / Poetry Collection / Student Resources / Poetry Collection
Poetry
●“Rhyme” by Elizabeth Coatsworth
●“magnifying glass” by Valerie Worth
●“Brother” by Mary Ann Hoberman
/ Poetry
●“Roots” by Douglas Florian
●“Under the Microscope” by Lee Bennett Hopkins
●“Summer full moon” by James Kirkup
●“The moon is a white cat”
Standards Highlights / Standards Highlights
Questions
Characters
Narrative technique / Main ideas
Texts features
Explanations
GOALS / GOALS
Readers will be able to show how a character’s motivations affect the sequence of events of a story.
Writers will be able to use character’s dialogue, feelings, and sensory details to explain the sequence of events in a story and lead to a solution.
Learners will be able to show how close observation helps to understand and know characters and actions.
/ Readers will be able to identify comparisons, contrasts, and changes over time, by closely reading sentences, paragraphs, and text features and across texts about the same topic.
Writers will be able to use research-based facts and text features to convey main ideas and details about a topic that changes over time.
Learners will be able to use observational skills to understand how things change over time.
Big Ideas and Content Connection / Big Ideas and Content Connection
Close Observation
Problem Solving
Change over Time
Science Content Connection
Science and Engineering Practices Analyze and interpret data to make sense [of phenomena using logical reasoning.
Cross-Cutting Concepts Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified and used to explain change. / Observing change over time
Close observation in all subject areas
Enduring Understandings / Enduring Understandings
Readers understand characters’ motivations and actions in stories.
Writers understand that characters’ actions impact the sequence of events in a story.
Learners understand that close observation helps to identify problems and find solutions. / Readers understand main ideas by looking closely at the facts and details used to support them.
Writers understand how to convey information about main ideas and details through text features and illustrations .
Learners understand how close observation can explain how and why things in the world change over time.
Essential Question(s) / Essential Question(s)
Reading: How do readers understand and explain characters’ actions in stories?
Writing: How do writers use specific sensory details, dialogue, description to advance the sequence of events in a story? / Reading: How do authors use compare/contrast to help readers understand information?
Writing: How do writers use signal words to identify compare/contrast?
Sample Unit Writing Activities / Sample Unit Writing Activities
1. Students will track the character traits, motivations, feelings of one of the characters in The Case of the Gasping Garbage. Students will use the information they collect to write a character sketch on one of the characters.
2. Students will write a story similar to Thunder Cake, based on one’s own experiences. This story will be about a time when fear turned into courage; when a problem is solved by using one’s best thinking. Students will include their motivations and feelngs to explain/describe their actions.
3. Students will share opinions of the characters in anchor texts. What character seems like a great decision maker and why? / 1. Students will use what they learned about a main and important idea from the reading of At The Root Of It to closely examine a part of nature. They will sketch the item and create 2-3 questions they would like to answer. Students will conduct brief research in which they answer their questions.
2. Students will create a “Discovery Channel” science skit about one of the subjects read about in this module. Students will create informational visuals that can accompany their skit such as key word cards, graphs, or sidebars of fun and important facts.
3. Students will compare and contrast two informational texts on the same topic and offer an opinion as to which best explains the information.
PBA Description / PBA Description
Task: Narrating Our World
Students will observe a busy area, just as the characters in Case of the Gasping Garbage, (i.e. the library, cafeteria, playground, etc.) and take notes on the people, events and environment.
Students will use their observations to write an original narrative story featuring characters and settings from their world. Although students’ stories will be based on their observations, some details including specific dialogue and background information may be imagined.
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/ or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
d. Provide a sense of closure.
Students will share their writing with the class as part of an author celebration. / Task: In the News!
Students will write an informative/explanatory news article on one living thing. The topics will be selected by the students.
a. Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
c. Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
d. Provide a concluding statement or section.
Standards Addressed / Standards Addressed
RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RL.3.3 Describe the characters in a story (e.g. their traits, motivations and feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.3.5 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
W.3.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/ or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of
characters to situations.
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
d. Provide a sense of closure.
W.3.4 With guidance andsupport from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to the task and purpose (Grade specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above)
W.3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3 on pages 28 and 29.)
SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.3.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL.3.6 Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. / RI.3.2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RI.3.5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
RI.3.7. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, how key events occur).
W.3.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
a. Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
c. Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
d. Provide a concluding statement or section.
W.3.4 With guidance andsupport from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to the task and purpose (Grade specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above)
W.3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3 on pages 28 and 29.)
SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.3.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL.3.5 Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pacd: add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
PBA Target Standards / PBA Target Standards
W.3.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/ or characters;
organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of
characters to situations.
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
d. Provide a sense of closure. / W.3.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
a. Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
c. Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
d. Provide a concluding statement or section.