Blaine 3rd Grade English Language Arts Map

The unit plans below are aligned vertically across grade levels and with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

1st Trimester

September
Skill/Stragegy
focus

October

November

-Schema
-Making Connections

Daily 5: Launching the Daily 5

Reading with
Meaning

Digging Into Thinking Strategies

Focus on Schema

CAF: Launching the CAF sequence

-Non-Fiction text features

-Main Idea
-Determine Importance
Nonfiction Genre Study
Focus on Questioning and Determining
Importance

Monthly Plan: chapter 3 pg 76-78

Lesson 1:
Lesson 2:
Lesson 3:
Lesson 4:
Lesson 5:
Lesson 6:
Lesson 7:
Lesson 8:
Lesson 9:

Check for Understanding

Cross Checking
Tune into Interesting Words
Read Appropriate-Level Texts
Monitor and Fix-up
Voracious Reading-fluency
Voracious Reading- Vocabulary
Use Prior Knowledge to Connect with Text
Make a Picture or Mental Image

Monthly Plan: Chapter 7 pg 150-152

Anchor Texts: The Relatives Came, Hazels

Amazing Mother, Ira Sleeps Over, Oliver Button
is a Sissy, Amazing Grace

***All future CAFE lessons are based on the needs of the

students

Comprehension
Toolkit

Monitor Comprehension
Lesson 1: Follow Your Inner Conversation
Anchor text: How Many Days to America?
Lesson 2: Notice When You Lose Your Way
Anchor text: Celbrating the Day of the Dead p.55 Toolkit
texts 2-3
Lesson 3: Read, Write, and Talk

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Activate & Connect

Lesson 4: Follow the Text Signposts

Anchor text: How Does it Work? (Rigby Big

Book)

Ask Questions
Lesson 7:- Question the Text
Anchor text: The Mary Celeste
Lesson 8:- Read to Discover Answers
Anchor text: Turn it Off pg. 56 Source Book
Lesson 9:- Ask Questions to Exp Thinking
Anchor text: The Story of Ruby Bridges

Determine Importance
Lesson 18:- Target Key Information
Anchor text: Buried Alive pg. 93 of Source
Book
Lesson 19:- Determine What to Remember
Achor text: Buried Alive pg. 93 of Source Book
Lesson 21:-Construct Main Ideas from Det.
Anchor text: Racing for Life pg. 125
Source Book

Blaine 3rd Grade English Language Arts Map

The unit plans below are aligned vertically across grade levels and with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Big Book

Tell Me a Story

How Does it Work?

The Big Fitz (November/December)

Close Reading

Reggie the Reader

Head Count

Coral Reef Goes Digital

Assesment

Making Friends with Pizza

Look Whos Talking

Trouble in the Amazon

DOLCH Sight
Words

Recognize first 300 Dolch Sight Words

Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives

Parts of Speech

Lucy Calkins
Writing Unit

Regular and irregular nouns, abstract nouns

(ex: childhood), regular and irregular verbs,
simple verb tenses
Crafting True Stories
Narrative

Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent

agreement, coordinating and subordination
conjunctions
The Art of Information Writing
Informational

Speaking, Listening and Language standards are embedded in unit guides and addressed through use Student Engagement strategies
Content Area Connections
Cultures in Our Community

Northwest Coast Native Americans

& Cultures of North America

Social Studies

Science

Working Draft May 2016

Sound

Blaine 3rd Grade English Language Arts Map

The unit plans below are aligned vertically across grade levels and with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

2nd Trimester
December

January

February

Skill/Stragegy
focus

-Non-Fiction text features

-Main Idea
-Determine Importance

-Inferring
-Asking Questions

-Summarizing
-Synthesizing

Reading with
Meaning

Nonfiction Genre Study

Focus on Questioning (continued) and
Determining Importance

Book Clubs
Focus on Asking Questions and Inferring

Book Recommendations
Focus on Synthesis
Pg. 169-170

Monthly Plan: Chapter 6 pg 118 - 121

Anchor texts: Where Are You Going Manyoni?, The Royal
Bee, Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky, How Many
Days to America?, Miss Maggie

Comprehensio
n Toolkit

Determine Importance (cont.)

Infer Meaning
Lesson 10: Infer the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words
Anchor text: The Old Woman Who Named Things
Lesson 11: Infer with Text Clues
Anchor text: Firefighting Through the Ages pg. 38 Toolkit
Texts 4-5
Lesson 12: Tackle the Meaning of Language
Anchor texts: Moon and Secrets pg. 36-37 Source book
Lesson 13: Crack Open Features
Anchor texts: Community Life pg. 38-39 Source book and
Understanding Electricity pg. 40-41 Source book
Lesson 14: Read With a Question in Mind
Anchor text: The Top of the World: Climbing Mount
Everest

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Anchor texts: Smoky Night, The

Alphabet Tree, The Story of Jumping
Mouse

Summarize and Synthesize

Lesson 23: Think Beyond the Text
Anchor text: Women of the Negro
Leagues pg. 46 Toolkit Texts 4-5
Lesson 24: Read to Get the Gist
Anchor text: The Many Faces of Masks
pg. 80 Source Book

Blaine 3rd Grade English Language Arts Map

The unit plans below are aligned vertically across grade levels and with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Close Reading

No Close Read this Month

The Raft

Amra and the Skateboard

Assessment

Mini CBA: Cactus Jam

How Bout Them Apples?

A Day on the Slopes

Parts of Speech

Simple Verb Tenses

Coordinating & Subordinating Conjunctions

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Writing Unit

The Art of Information Writing

Speaking, Listening and Language standards are embedded in unit guides and addressed through use Student Engagement strategies

Content Area Connections

Social
Studies

Northwest Coast Native Americans

& Cultures of North America Continued

Science

Water

3rd
Trimester

Working Draft May 2016

Blaine 3rd Grade English Language Arts Map

The unit plans below are aligned vertically across grade levels and with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Skill/Stragegy focus

Reading with
Meaning

March

April

May/June

Poetry

Authors Purpose

Biography Unit

Poetry Genre Study;

Focus on Sensory Images
Pg. 98-99
Anchor texts: Night in the Country,
Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky, The
Magic Fish, Color Me a Rhyme, City Dog
& Country Frog

Close Read

See ELA representative for list of

materials and resources

Bats

From Seed to Plant

(TDQ)

Tops and Bottoms

Smarter Balance Interim Assessment

-Informational

Mini CBA: Mrs. Mack

Winter-Time
Prefixes, Affixes, Suffixes,

Root Words

Review

Assessment

Parts of Speech

Writing Unit

Changing the World

Persuasive Speeches, Petitions and Editorials

Biography Research Project

Speaking, Listening and Language standards are embedded in unit guides and addressed through use Student Engagement strategies

Content Area Connections

Social Studies
Science

Working Draft May 2016

Plants