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Grade 3

• Strand 1

  • 3.1.A
  • 3.1.B
  • 3.1.C
  • 3.1.D
  • 3.1.E

• Strand 2

  • 3.2.A
  • 3.2.A.i
  • 3.2.A.ii
  • 3.2.A.iii
  • 3.2.A.iv
  • 3.2.A.v
  • 3.2.A.vi
  • 3.2.A.vii
  • 3.2.B
  • 3.2.B.i
  • 3.2.B.ii
  • 3.2.B.iii
  • 3.2.B.iv
  • 3.2.B.v
  • 3.2.B.vi
  • 3.2.B.vii
  • 3.2.C
  • 3.2.D

• Strand 3

  • 3.3.A
  • 3.3.B
  • 3.3.C
  • 3.3.D

• Strand 4

  • 3.4

• Strand 5

  • 3.5

• Strand 6

  • 3.6.A
  • 3.6.B
  • 3.6.C
  • 3.6.D
  • 3.6.E
  • 3.6.F
  • 3.6.G
  • 3.6.H
  • 3.6.I

• Strand 7

  • 3.7.A
  • 3.7.B
  • 3.7.C
  • 3.7.D
  • 3.7.E
  • 3.7.F
  • 3.7.G

• Strand 8

  • 3.8.A
  • 3.8.B
  • 3.8.C
  • 3.8.D

• Strand 9

  • 3.9.A
  • 3.9.B
  • 3.9.C
  • 3.9.D
  • 3.9.D.i
  • 3.9.D.ii
  • 3.9.D.iii
  • 3.9.E
  • 3.9.E.i
  • 3.9.E.ii
  • 3.9.E.iii
  • 3.9.F

• Strand 10

  • 3.10.A
  • 3.10.B
  • 3.10.C
  • 3.10.D
  • 3.10.E
  • 3.10.F
  • 3.10.G

• Strand 11

  • 3.11.A
  • 3.11.B
  • 3.11.B.i
  • 3.11.B.ii
  • 3.11.C
  • 3.11.D
  • 3.11.D.i
  • 3.11.D.ii
  • 3.11.D.iii
  • 3.11.D.iv
  • 3.11.D.v
  • 3.11.D.vi
  • 3.11.D.vii
  • 3.11.D.viii
  • 3.11.D.ix
  • 3.11.D.x
  • 3.11.D.xi
  • 3.11.E

• Strand 12

  • 3.12.A
  • 3.12.B
  • 3.12.C
  • 3.12.D

• Strand 13

  • 3.13.A
  • 3.13.B
  • 3.13.C
  • 3.13.D
  • 3.13.E
  • 3.13.F

TEKS ELA Standard: 3.6.A

establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

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

Founding The Colonies

13 colonies activities including a word search and task cards packed with facts. Plus, students will create their own colony with a name, story, and map!

Hero or Not A Hero?

Students will determine what makes a hero a hero.

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

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.

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?

Zig Zag Cipher (Codes Part 3)

Let’s try a cipher that doesn’t substitute new letters or shapes. We just mix things up.

Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)

Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!

Think Like An Author: Hemingway vs Dickens

What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?

Analyze Paragraphs: Tomatoes

Three paragraphs about tomatoes. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Writing Sample: Moby Dick

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

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Academic Love Letters

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

Create A Civilization: From Hunter Gatherers to Farmers

What happens when your civilization suddenly has a surplus of food? Think of the possibilities!

Content Imperatives: Origin

Take students back to the beginning by using the Content Imperative ⏺️ Origin.

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.

An App For A Historical Figure

What kind of an app could have helped Abe Lincoln accomplish his goals?

Asynchrony: Developing At Different Rates (For Students)

For students! In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.

Motivation and Moral Development

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

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?