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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.RL.3

Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Think Like A Historian

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Writing Sample: A Christmas Carol (Cold)

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Characters Dressed as Other Characters for Halloween

What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

The Personalities of Rocks

What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?

More Specific than “Smart”

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Showing A Character’s Trait

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

Content Imperatives: Contribuition

Pull on one thread and watch the whole topic move. Contribution asks: what single factor is quietly shaping everything else?

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Elements of The Fantasy Genre

Every fantasy story has patterns hiding underneath the magic. Once your students see the elements, they’ll spot them everywhere — and use them in their own writing.

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Better Stories Part 2: Types of Conflict

If your students’ stories are packed with endless ninja fights or arguments between frenemies, it’s time to expose them to a wider range of conflicts.

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.