Grade 3 Year‐Long Teaching Goals for Third Grade Reading and Writing Workshop READING WORKSHOP Launching the Workshop Goals: Establish Reading Workshop routines, develop community, stamina, and enthusiasm, begin strategy instruction Strategies: Making Connections/Schema Visualization Essential Elements: • Introduce “Reading Is Thinking” • First Twenty Days of Reading Workshop • Establish Independent Reading Time ‐ Set up classroom library ‐ Self‐monitoring/Reading Log ‐ Reading responses ‐ Introduce stations (if applicable) COMPREHENSION & LITERARY ELEMENTS • Schema/Prior Knowledge • Making Connections • Visualization • Parts of a book • Literary elements • Retelling & summarizing GENRE • Introduce genre: fiction & nonfiction FLUENCY • Review and practice rate, expression, phrasing Assessments: MAP Running Records Oral reading fluency passages Reading Responses 1st Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: • Set up Writing Workshop routines(Opening Lesson, Writing Time, Closing and Sharing) • Establish classroom culture of writing • Developing writing enthusiasm and stamina • 6 Traits 6‐Traits: • Ideas • Organization • Word Choice Genre: • Expository Essential Elements: • First Twenty Days of Writing • Establishing Independent Writing Time • Setting up a writer’s notebook/folder • Ideas • Organization • Word Choice • Writing to a prompt Assessments: Grade Level Writing Samples ISAT Writing Prompt practice sample (Expository) Charleston Community Unit School District No. 1 Charleston, IL WORD STUDY Goals: Developing routines for word study, develop phonics skills on the developmental continuum Word Study Concepts/Skills: APPLY • Digraphs • Blends • Short vowel patterns DEVELOP • Long vowel patterns Other Word Study Strategies and Skills: • Homophone patterns • Synonyms • Antonyms • Vocabulary Essentials • Root words Assessments: Developmental Spelling Inventory Dolch Sight Words Sentence Dictation & Writing Samples Revised 3/09 Grade 3 2 Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP nd
READING WORKSHOP Goals: continue to develop deep comprehension through independence, stamina and enthusiasm for reading Strategies: Visualization (continued) Questioning Inferences Self Monitoring Essential Elements: COMPREHENSION & LITERARY ELEMENTS • Visualization (continued) • Questioning • Inferences ‐ Infer to predict ‐ Literary elements ‐ Theme/Mood ‐ Drawing conclusions GENRE • Text Structures • Nonfiction conventions/Text Features • Genre Study: Fiction and nonfiction, story, poem, fable, tall tale, essay, fairy tale (ISAT) FLUENCY • Review and practice rate, expression, phrasing Assessments: MAP Running Records as needed Assess oral reading fluency as needed Reading Response Goals: • Continue routines for Writing Workshop routines(Opening Lesson, Writing Time, Closing and Sharing) • Continue classroom culture of writing • Developing writing enthusiasm and stamina • Continue 6 Traits instruction 6‐Traits: • Ideas • Organization • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency Genre: • Expository • Narrative • Poetry • Types of writing genre Essential Elements: • Ideas • Focus • Organization • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency Assessments: Grade Level Writing Samples ISAT Writing Prompt practice sample (Expository) Publish 1‐3 piece Charleston Community Unit School District No. 1 Charleston, IL WORD STUDY Goals: Continue developing phonics skills, considering developmental levels Word Study Concepts/Skills: DEVELOP • Long vowel patterns • Other vowel patterns • R‐controlled vowels Other Word Study Strategies & Skills • Homophones • Synonyms • Antonyms • Easy prefixes and suffixes • Context Clues • Vocabulary Essentials Assessments: Dolch Sight Words Sentence Dictation & Writing Samples Writing Samples Revised 3/09 Grade 3 3 Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP RD
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Continue to develop independence and deeper comprehension Strategies: Continue work in all strategies Inferences continued Determining Importance Essential Elements: COMPREHENSION & LITERARY ELEMENTS • Inferences (continued) ‐ Author’s message & purpose ‐ Theme and mood (continued) ‐ Infer about literary elements • Determining Importance in Text ‐ Summary ‐ Main Idea & Supporting Details GENRE • Fiction Essentials • Text Features (Determining Importance) • Nonfiction Essentials • Review all genre FLUENCY Review and practice rate, expression, phrasing Assessments MAP ISAT Testing Running Records (as needed) Goals: • Continue routines for Writing Workshop routines(Opening Lesson, Writing Time, Closing and Sharing) • Continue classroom culture of writing • Developing writing enthusiasm and stamina • Continue 6 Traits instruction 6‐Traits: • Ideas • Organization • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Voice • Conventions Genre: • Expository • Narrative • Poetry Essential Elements: • Ideas • Focus • Organization • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Voice • Conventions • Assessments: Sample Grade Level Writing Samples ISAT Writing Prompt practice sample (Expository) Publish 1‐3 writings Charleston Community Unit School District No. 1 Charleston, IL WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study Concepts/Skills: APPLY • Long vowel patterns • Other vowel patterns • R‐controlled vowels DEVELOP • Complex consonants • Abstract vowels INTRODUCE • Abstract vowels • Doubling and e‐drop with ed & ing Other Word Study Strategies & Skills • Multiple Meaning Words • Prefix, Suffix, Root • Vocabulary Essentials Assessments: Developmental Spelling Inventory Dolch Sight Words Sentence Dictation & Writing Samples Revised 3/09 Grade 3 4 Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP th
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Continue to develop independence and deeper comprehension Strategies: Continue work with all strategies Synthesizing Essential Elements: • Review all reading strategies • Deeper meaning through discussion • Book Clubs COMPREHENSION & LITERARY ELEMENTS • Synthesizing ‐ Connect all strategies to make deeper meaning GENRE • Independent reading and discussion with variety of genre FLUENCY • practice rate, expression, phrasing Assessments: MAP Running Records (all students) Assess oral reading fluency Reading Response Goals: • Continue routines for Writing Workshop routines(Opening Lesson, Writing Time, Closing and Sharing) • Continue classroom culture of writing • Developing writing enthusiasm and stamina • Continue 6 Traits instruction Genre: • Expository • Narrative • Persuasive • Poetry Essential Elements: • Ideas • Focus • Organization • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Voice • Conventions Assessments: Grade Level Writing Samples ISAT Writing Prompt practice sample (Expository) Publish 1‐3 writings WORD STUDY Goals: • Continue developing phonics • Continue developmental instruction Word Study Concepts/Skills: APPLY • R‐controlled vowels • Long vowel patterns • Complex consonants DEVELOP • Abstract vowels • Doubling & e‐drop with ed & ing INTRODUCE • Other syllable juncture doubling Other word study strategies & skills: • High frequency word work • Vocabulary Essentials Assessments: Developmental Spelling Inventory (optional) Dolch Sight Words Sentence Dictation & Writing Samples Charleston Community Unit School District No. 1 Charleston, IL Revised 3/09