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Grade 3

• Composition

  • C.3.1
  • C.3.1.a
  • C.3.1.b
  • C.3.1.c
  • C.3.1.d
  • C.3.1.e
  • C.3.1.f
  • C.3.2
  • C.3.2.a
  • C.3.2.b
  • C.3.2.c
  • C.3.2.d
  • C.3.2.e
  • C.3.2.f
  • C.3.2.g
  • C.3.3
  • C.3.3.a
  • C.3.3.b
  • C.3.3.c
  • C.3.3.d
  • C.3.3.f
  • C.3.4
  • C.3.5
  • C.3.6
  • C.3.7

• Language

  • L.3.1
  • L.3.1.a
  • L.3.1.b
  • L.3.1.c
  • L.3.1.d
  • L.3.1.e
  • L.3.1.f
  • L.3.1.g
  • L.3.1.h
  • L.3.1.i
  • L.3.2
  • L.3.2.d
  • L.3.2.f
  • L.3.3
  • L.3.3.a
  • L.3.3.b
  • L.3.4
  • L.3.4.a
  • L.3.4.b
  • L.3.4.c
  • L.3.4.d
  • L.3.4.e
  • L.3.5
  • L.3.5.a
  • L.3.5.b
  • L.3.5.c

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • RF.3.3
  • RF.3.3.a
  • RF.3.3.b
  • RF.3.3.c
  • RF.3.4.a
  • RF.3.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.3.1
  • RI.3.2
  • RI.3.3
  • RI.3.4
  • RI.3.5
  • RI.3.6
  • RI.3.7
  • RI.3.8
  • RI.3.9
  • RI.3.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.3.1
  • RL.3.2
  • RL.3.3
  • RL.3.4
  • RL.3.5
  • RL.3.6
  • RL.3.7
  • RL.3.9
  • RL.3.10

KAS ELA Standard: RL.3.3

Describe characters in a story, including but not limited to their traits, motivations, actions or feelings, and how they affect the plot.

Too Much or Too Little of a Character Trait

The trait that makes a hero heroic is the same trait that makes a villain villainous. There’s just too much of it, or too little.

Analyze Character Change

A character can act one way at the beginning of a story and surprise you by the end. Students gather the clues and name the change.

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.

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.

Do Narrators Have Too Much Power?

Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story’s narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?

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.)

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

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

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

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

Motivation and Moral Development

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

Romeo and Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Twelfth Night Summary

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nothing could possibly go wrong with a love potion on the loose!

Better Stories Part 5: Plot Structure

Ever read a student’s story that was just event after event after event and then a very sudden ending? They lack an understanding of a plot’s structure. With the help of Finding Nemo, I break down how to set up a well-structured plot.

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.