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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.W.1.a

Introduce the topic or text, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

Order to Chaos: Dominoes or Dam?

Sometimes outside forces turn order into chaos. But sometimes chaos comes from within.

Earth’s Layers: Who Contributes The Most?

Earth’s layers will disagree about which one contributes the most to the planet’s success.

An Under-Appreciated Planet

Students write from the point of view of the most under-appreciated planet.

Order and Chaos Hide Inside Each Other

Chaos can contain order. Order can contain chaos! Is chaos ever truly random?

Holiday Shuffle – Day vs Date

Wouldn’t some holidays be better on a certain day of the week? Should Thanksgiving have a set date?

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Natural Disasters Tournament

Earthquake vs. hurricane. Tsunami vs. wildfire. Students set the criteria, argue their case, and crown a champion. Warning: it gets heated.

Robot Writing: Acropolis

One painting of ruins. Three robots. Three pieces of writing. Who wrote it best?

Robot Writing: Orchestra

Read three pieces of writing from three different robots based on a beautiful painting and decide who wins!

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Introducing Universal Theme of Conflict

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

Horde Chess Variant

What if one player had, say, 32 pawns?

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

Impostor Syndrome

How high-performing students can often feel like they aren’t really that great.

Order Can Be Natural or Constructed

When is order natural and when is it designed by people?

Improving Presentations 2: Planning The Outline

After watching some great presenters, let’s outline your presentation!

Academic Love Letters

What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?

Teaching Criticism

For Teachers

Ask students to go beyond “I don’t like it” and form critical opinions based on a set of criteria. Students can produce written arguments or turn their opinion into oral presentations.

Better Stories Part 1: The Big Idea

We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: “structure increases creativity.” I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.