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Grade 3

• Language

  • 3.L.1
  • 3.L.1.a
  • 3.L.1.b
  • 3.L.1.d
  • 3.L.1.e
  • 3.L.1.f
  • 3.L.1.g
  • 3.L.1.h
  • 3.L.1.i
  • 3.L.1.j
  • 3.L.2
  • 3.L.2.a
  • 3.L.2.d
  • 3.L.3
  • 3.L.3.a
  • 3.L.3.b
  • 3.L.4
  • 3.L.4.a
  • 3.L.4.b
  • 3.L.4.c
  • 3.L.4.d
  • 3.L.5
  • 3.L.5.a
  • 3.L.5.b
  • 3.L.5.c
  • 3.L.6

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • 3.RF.3
  • 3.RF.3.a
  • 3.RF.3.b
  • 3.RF.3.c
  • 3.RF.3.d
  • 3.RF.4.a
  • 3.RF.4.b
  • 3.RF.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • 3.RI.1
  • 3.RI.2
  • 3.RI.3
  • 3.RI.4
  • 3.RI.5
  • 3.RI.6
  • 3.RI.7
  • 3.RI.8
  • 3.RI.9

• Reading: Literature

  • 3.RL.1
  • 3.RL.2
  • 3.RL.3
  • 3.RL.4
  • 3.RL.5
  • 3.RL.6
  • 3.RL.7
  • 3.RL.9
  • 3.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 3.SL.1
  • 3.SL.1.a
  • 3.SL.1.b
  • 3.SL.1.c
  • 3.SL.1.d
  • 3.SL.2
  • 3.SL.3
  • 3.SL.4
  • 3.SL.5
  • 3.SL.6

• Writing

  • 3.W.1
  • 3.W.1.a
  • 3.W.1.b
  • 3.W.1.c
  • 3.W.1.d
  • 3.W.2
  • 3.W.2.a
  • 3.W.2.b
  • 3.W.2.c
  • 3.W.2.d
  • 3.W.3
  • 3.W.3.a
  • 3.W.3.b
  • 3.W.3.c
  • 3.W.3.d
  • 3.W.4
  • 3.W.5
  • 3.W.6
  • 3.W.7
  • 3.W.8
  • 3.W.10

• Writing Foundational Skills

  • 3.WF.1
  • 3.WF.1.a
  • 3.WF.1.b
  • 3.WF.3
  • 3.WF.3.a
  • 3.WF.3.b
  • 3.WF.3.c
  • 3.WF.3.d
  • 3.WF.3.d.1
  • 3.WF.3.d.2
  • 3.WF.3.e
  • 3.WF.3.e.1
  • 3.WF.3.e.2

Arizona ELA Standard: 3.RI.2

Determine the main idea of a text; recount and paraphrase the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Main Idea and Details

Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.

Gr 1-8

Power in Autumn

Autumn was once powerful because of the harvest. What gives Fall its power now?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Gr 1-8

Great Sloths – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about great sloths back into the correct order?

Gr 1-8

The Great Sphinx – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about The Great Sphinx back into the correct order?

Gr 2-8

Rainclouds – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about rain clouds back into the correct order?

Gr 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Gr 1-8

What Happens In Your Brain When You’re Worried or Afraid

Allison Edwards explains how blood flow in your brain affects your decision-making

Gr 1-8

Introducing Universal Theme of Change

Everything changes. But how does it change? Students brainstorm dozens of examples and boil them down to one big idea.

Gr 1-8

Introducing Universal Theme of Power

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Automobiles – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about automobiles back into the correct order?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Trains – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about trains back into the correct order?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Earthquakes – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about earthquakes back into the correct order?

Gr 2, 3, 4, 6, 8

Analyze Paragraphs: Baseball

Three paragraphs about baseball. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Paragraphs: Cucumbers

Three paragraphs about cucumbers. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Paragraphs: Empire State Building

Three paragraphs about the Empire State Building. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Paragraphs: Tomatoes

Three paragraphs about tomatoes. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

Analyze Paragraphs: Wolverines

Three paragraphs about wolverines. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Gr 1-8

Paradox: Rebuilding A Ship

What if we completely rebuild something slowly? What if we completely rebuild it all at once? Is it still the same thing?

Gr 1-8

Paragraphs: Systems of Sentences

Blow up a paragraph into individual sentences. Now reassemble it. The clues hiding in each sentence will surprise you.

Gr 1-8

Paradox: Crocodile Dilemma

A crocodile makes a deal. But the deal creates a paradox. Can your students untangle a 2,000-year-old logic puzzle?

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 🌻 Details

Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.

Gr 1-8

Writing Summaries in Haiku

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.

Gr 1-8

Teach Non-Fiction Writing Structure With Fractals

Did you ever notice that the structure of an essay is very similar to the structure of a paragraph? Hmm…

Gr 1-8