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Grade 3

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 3.C.1
  • 3.C.1.A
  • 3.C.2.A

• Language Usage

  • 3.LU.1
  • 3.LU.1.A
  • 3.LU.1.D
  • 3.LU.2
  • 3.LU.2.B
  • 3.LU.2.D

• Research

  • 3.R.1
  • 3.R.1.B
  • 3.R.1.C
  • 3.R.1.D
  • 3.R.1.E

• Reading Informational Text

  • 3.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 3.RL.1
  • 3.RL.1.B
  • 3.RL.1.C
  • 3.RL.2
  • 3.RL.2.D

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 3.RV.1
  • 3.RV.1.C
  • 3.RV.1.E
  • 3.RV.1.G

• Writing

  • 3.W.1
  • 3.W.1.B
  • 3.W.1.C
  • 3.W.1.D
  • 3.W.2
  • 3.W.2.A
  • 3.W.3
  • 3.W.3.A
  • 3.W.3.B

Virginia ELA Standard: 3.W.3.A

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising for quality of ideas, organization, sentence fluency, and word choice.

Introducing Systems

Introduce Systems by testing the claim “systems need all of their parts to work.”

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.

Writing A Thanksgiving Letter

What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?

Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 1

‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.