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Grade 3

• Language

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

• Reading: Fluency

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

• Reading: Informational

  • 3.RI.2
  • 3.RI.3
  • 3.RI.6
  • 3.RI.7
  • 3.RI.8
  • 3.RI.9

• Reading: Literature

  • 3.RL.2
  • 3.RL.3
  • 3.RL.4
  • 3.RL.5
  • 3.RL.9

• Speaking & Listening

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

CCSS 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’ Bedrooms

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?

A Character’s Playlist

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

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

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

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.

Not Like The Others: Charlotte’s Web

Four Charlotte’s Web characters. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

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.

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?

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!