updated 2-19-15
Library Curriculum Connections At-A-Glance
DC –Digital Citizenship, IL-Information Literacy,
Grade 3, Unit 5 Theme: Those Amazing Animals -What makes each animal unique?
Literature Selection
Penguin Chick
by Betty Tatham
illustrated by
Helen K Davie
Genre
Main Selection
Informational
Text/ Expository
Paired Selection
Literary
Text/Poetry
WK THEME
Antarctic Life
Animal Homes
by Ann O. Squire
Main Selection
Informational
Text/ Expository
Paired Selection
Informational
Text/ Expository
WK THEME
Animal Homes
Call of the Wild
Time For Kids
Informational
WK THEME
Animals on the Move
Main Selection
Informational
Text/ Expository
Technology / Media
McGraw Hill
Tx Treasures
pp 273 I-J
MEDIA LITERACY IL, DC
News as it happens..
How is written word use
for digital news? TERMS
graphics, DL paintbrush
and fill tools, color
palette, scanner
(Google Drawing) practice
using tools and scanning
IC MM LESSON DL
Teamwork: teaming,
brainstorming, citizenship
traits, creating a Blend
Space (SEE Planner)
BrainPop login / password:
schoolname_1 /brainpop
IC LESSON Before the
House related book:
Collin McKinney (Strother)
CUR BIO McKinney
IC LESSON Has Plano
Always Looked Like it
Does Today? IC Print/
Online Resource (SEE
Planner) Plano, Texas: A
Local History (Wilson) DC
IC LESSON Regions &
Landforms (Community
Buddies) Students will
create a presentation of
Comprehension
Strategies and
Skills
Comprehension
Strategy:
Summarize
Skill: Main
Idea/Details
Skill: Sequence
Genre: Expository
Text, Fiction
Comprehension
Strategy: Analyze
Text Structure
Skill: Description
Skill: Main Idea
and Details
Genre: Expository
Text
Comprehension
Strategy: Analyze
Text Structure
Skill: Cause and
Effect
Skill: Description
Genre Nonfiction
Text Features/
Literary
Elements/
Study Skills
Rhythmic
Patterns and
Imagery
Day 4 Reading
LT: I can
understand how
characteristics of
poetry create
imagery
Directions
Reading LT- Day4
I can follow and
explain written
multi-step
directions
Skim and Scan a
Nonfiction Article
Wk 4, Day 4, Word
Study LT I can use
print and electronic
resources to find &
check spellings
DL–Digital Literacy
Writing
LT Topics
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics (Write Source):
Responsive Writing:
Responsive Paragraph;
Writing a Book Review
(Model, Prewriting)
Skills: Using Details, Letter
Writing Conventions,
Paragraph Indentions,
Adjectives
Writing/Grammar/
Mechanics: (Write Source)
Writing a Response
Paragraph; Writing a Book
Review for Fiction:
(Drafting, Revising, Editing,
Publishing, Reflecting)
Skills: Subject-Verb
Agreement, Verb Tenses,
Apostrophes
Writing/Grammar/Mechani
cs: (Write Source) Writing
Process, Writing Poems;
Rhyming Poem. Prewriting
Drafting, Revising, Editing:
Skills: Adverbs, Adjectives,
Transitions
Unit 5 Theme Related Library Resources
Integrated OC: Diversity OI: Social Studies
IC: OI Essential
Questions
UNIT 1
*Why do people
settle in a specific
place?
*How does
geography affect
the way people
live?
*How do customs
and celebrations
reflect the culture
of a community?
*How can
individuals make a
difference?
5th OI:
Social Studies
Unit 1 beginning February 23, 2015
K-5 Critical Vocabulary
and
Critical People, Events, Symbols,
and Historical Documents
(linked in Planner)
*Transfer
MIND MISSION
Teamwork – brainstorming
Oñate’s Orders – Juan de Oñate
Columbus Crew -- C. Columbus
Mary’s Marketing - entrepreneurs
Ford’s Focus – assembly line
*Should people
buy everything
they want?
SOCIAL STUDIES
Unit 1 Communities (25 days)
*Analyze , identify traditions of
culture past and present to gain
insight into the people
Country School - changes
*Evaluate decisions of the past
to see how they affect the present
Plano, TX
timelines related to historical
events—interpreting chronology
Years, decades, centuries
Heritage Farmstead Museum
*Examine places and regions to
identify patterns and relationships
*How do people
get the things they
need?
Individuals who helped shape
communities – Collin McKinney
prairie, colony, pioneer, settler,
_____________
UNIT 2
*How does
innovation affect
our lives?
*How can
individuals make a
difference?
Literature Selection
Wilbur’s Boast
by E B White
illustrated by
Garth Williams
(title reads Wilbur’s
Boost in Planner—
incorrect)
Genre
Main Selection
Literary
Text/Fantasy
Paired Selection
Literary
Text/Fable
Technology / Media
regional information using
print, online resource, and
textbooks—share using
presentation choices in
Planner IL, DL DC
IC LESSON A Global
Perspective- IL Around
the World-GoogleEarth
IC LESSON Adapting to
the Environment
Digital camera, Google
Earth: PhotoStory,
PowerPt, BlendSpace
presentations – how
communities changeadaptions or modifications
to physical environments
WK THEME
Unusual Animal
Talents
Comprehension
Strategies and
Skills
Text Features/
Literary
Elements/
Study Skills
Writing
LT Topics
Write Source
Comprehension
Strategy:
Monitor
Comprehension
Skill: Draw
Conclusions
Skill: Cause and
Effect
Genre:
Nonfiction,
fiction
Personification
and Moral
Reading LT I can
Writing/Grammar/Mechani
cs: (Write Source)
The Writing Process,
Writing Poems (continued)
Limerick, Clerihew,
5 W's Poem, List Poem
Skills: Adjectives,
Prepositions/Phrases
Comprehension
Strategy:
Monitor
Comprehension
Skill: Compare
and Contrast
Skill: Draw
Conclusions
Genre:
Nonfiction,
Fiction
Foreshadowing
Writing/Grammar/Mechani
cs: (Write Source)
The Writing Process /
Responding to a Poem:
(Prewriting, Drafting,
Revising, Editing, Publishing)
Skills: Paragraph Indention
Review/ Assess
Description
Main Idea
Draw Conclusions
Compare &
Contrast
Cause & Effect
Review/ Assess
Personification
Rhythmic
Patterns
Imagery
Multiple-Step
Directions
Foreshadowing
Writing/Grammar/Mechani
cs: (Write Source)
Creative Writing:
Imaginative Stories (Model,
Prewriting, Drafting,
Revising, Editing)
Extension: Creating a Play
Skills: Pronouns,
Punctuating Dialogue
(cont’d p.2)
understand
characteristics of a
fable and identify
examples of
personification
Reading LT
I can use
foreshadowing
clues to make and
confirm predictions.
I can describe
characteristics of
myths.
Main Selection
Informational
Text/ Expository
Paired Selection
Literary
Text/Myth
WK THEME
Survival and
Adaptation
Show What You
Know
Library Activities:
Comprehension,
Word Study,
Drama, Genre
Study, Poetry
WK THEME
Review and Assess
Poetry
Wk 6, Day 4 DC
Reading LT I can
understand how
communication
changes from one
media genre to
another…how
design techniques
used in media
influence message
IC LESSON: Here’s the
Scoop 5 Areas of
Researching a company –
SEE Planner Do the World
a Flavor event—students
create an ice cream flavor
and market it / create an
ad IL, DL, DC
IC MM LESSON:
Entrepreneurs Who Mean
Business research:
PebbleGo BIO Websites of
entrepreneurs &
businesses, Wal-Mart,
Famous Amos, Mary K,
Hershey, Ford IL, DC
IC LESSON Shark Tank
Transfer Task –DL, DC
students create
business plan &product
presentation, ad, model
McGraw–Hill TexasTreasures, TE Grade 3; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, WriteSource
*How does the
free enterprise
system affect our
lives?
5th OI:
Social Studies
Unit 1 beginning February 23, 2015
campaign, slogan, Daniel Boone
philanthropist James L Thomas
Comparing how people in different
communities adapt to the
physical environment
Reading maps using geographic
tools –hemisphere, Equator,
Prime Meridian, map scale,
contiguous
ECONOMICS
IL, DL, DC
Unique Animals of
the Southwest
by Tanya Lee Stone
IC: OI Essential
Questions
Unit 2 Economics (17 days)
earning, spending, saving, and
donating
Goods & services, needs & wants
Income, budgets, donations,
goods, services, scarcity,
good citizenship, credit, interest,
charitable giving
Free enterprise system, wage,
hourly wage, income, human
capital, profit, Free Market
Entrepreneurs: Wallace Amos,
Henry Ford, Mary Kay Ash, Milton
Hershey, Milton Hershey II, Sam
Walton and How a business
operates –Ben & Jerry Ice Cream
Read Across America
Monday, March 2, 2015
National Library Week
April 12-18, 2015
Engineers Week
February 22-28
February – Black History Month
March -- TX History Month
-- Women’s History Month
April
--National Poetry Month