Grade 3
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Language
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Reading: Foundational Skills
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Reading: Informational
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Reading: Literature
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Speaking & Listening
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Writing
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Writing Foundational Skills
Arizona ELA Standard: 3.RL.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language.
Author’s Voice: Rudyard Kipling
Every great author sounds like no one else. Students learn to hear an author’s voice with Beatrix Potter’s calm Peter Rabbit, then borrow Rudyard Kipling’s playful voice, turning a flat, boring passage into writing that sounds just like him. It is reading like a writer, and it is the kind of thinking your strongest readers are hungry for.
Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite
Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”