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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

Usage and Mechanics

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?

Punctuation Power

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 1

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