Instruction in our classroom meets or exceeds South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards. Third-grade students are enthusiastic and willing to try just about anything. Therefore, South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards use these characteristics to advance the reading, writing and inquiry skills of children. Learning to read fluently has a ripple effect. It stimulates future learning and offers important exposure to new words. Fluency allows the reader to focus on comprehending the text rather than figuring out the individual words. Achieving fluency is particularly essential at this age since the focus after the third grade is reading to learn not learning to read.
Please note: It is so important that a child read fluently and with understanding before entering the fourth grade that Act 284 of 2014 requires retention in the third grade unless certain reading requirements are met.
Summary: "It was a dark and stormy night..." Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on a tesseract.
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Language: English | Copyright: 1962
Collaborative Literacy is a comprehensive ELA curriculum designed to develop independent readers, writers, and critical thinkers using three components: Making Meaning, Book Clubs, and Being a Writer.
Making Meaning provides research-based, whole-class reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction using increasingly complex texts across a wide range of genres. Our 3rd grade program also offers complete support for daily independent reading, the development of social skills, and regular student-teacher conferences.
Unit 1: The Classroom Community (4 weeks)
Unit 2: Strategy Development and Generating Independent Thinking (5 weeks)
Unit 3: Fiction (5 weeks)
Unit 4: Narrative Nonfiction (4 weeks)
Unit 5: Expository Nonfiction (4 weeks)
Unit 6: Persuasive Nonfiction (4 weeks)
Unit 7: Drama (4 weeks)
Book Clubs utilize best practices for small-group reading with both teacher-led lessons and guidance for creating and sustaining student-led book clubs. Lessons are designed to deepen conversations through the development of social skills that facilitate small-group interactions.
Being a Writer intrinsically motivates students through choice and independence. Students are introduced to a wide range of genres through diverse text and exemplary writing. Integrated social skills development gives students the tools needed to respectfully confer with one another while developing ideas and sharing writing samples. Lessons in grammar, mechanics, and conventions occur during the revision and proofreading phases. By nurturing ideas and assisting with editing only as needed, Mr. Peltier is able to support students in the development of authentic writing pieces for various purposes and audiences.
Unit 1: The Writing Community (3 weeks)
Unit 2: The Writing Process (2 weeks)
Unit 3: Genre: Personal Narrative (4 weeks)
Unit 4: Genre: Fiction (6 weeks)
Unit 5: Genre: Expository Nonfiction (6 weeks)
Unit 6: Genre: Functional Writing (3 weeks)
Unit 7: Genre: Opinion Writing (3 weeks)
Unit 8: Genre: Poetry (2 weeks)
Unit 9: Revisiting the Writing Community
Note: Students should read AT HOME for at least 20 minutes EVERY DAY!
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