Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
1. Ask and answer questions to
demonstrate understanding of a text,
referring explicitly to the text as the
basis for the answers. (Literature)
4. Determine the meaning of words and
phrases as they are used in a text,
distinguishing literal from non-literal
language. (Literature)
7. Explain how specific aspects of a
text’s illustrations contribute to what is
conveyed by the words in a story (e.g.,
create mood, emphasize aspects of a
character or setting). (Literature)
Content/Skills
Assessment
Asking and answering
questions to analyze Story
Structure and increase
comprehension
Vocabulary, Comprehension
Thesaurus, synonyms
Analyzing Text Features –
Captions
Resources
Notes
Student Reader
Textbook/Earth Smart
Build Vocabulary
Understanding using the 5Day Vocabulary. Read “Play
Ball!” analyze the meaning of
unknown words using context
clues. p.68-69
“Earth Smart” captions and
illustrations: With a partner
students will cover up caption
and describe to their partner
what is happening in the
picture. Students will uncover
the caption to check if they
are correct.
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
1. Ask and answer questions to
demonstrate understanding of a text,
referring explicitly to the text as the
basis for the answers (Informational
Text)
Content/Skills
Assessment
Recall Text Details
Unit 1 and 2 CC Assessment
Selection Assessment
Resources
Notes
Listen to Read Aloud – “The
Name of The Tree”. Student
will answer teacher questions
using the look back strategy.
Use supporting details from
the story to locate the main
idea; Complete main idea
graphic organizer
New Mexico weekly Test Prep
2. Determine the main idea of a text;
recount the key details and explain how
they support the main idea.
(Informational Text).
Main Idea
Read Text Selection – “Earth
Smart”. Demonstrate
comprehension by locating
supporting details from text to
support answers regarding
Main Idea. Use graphic
organizer to record main idea.
Students state main idea in
five words or less
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
Content/Skills
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the
most common prefixes and derivational
suffixes.
b. Decode words with common Latin
suffixes.
c. Decode multi-syllable words.
d. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled
words. (Foundational Skills).
4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency
to support comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and
understanding.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression
on successive readings
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct
word recognition and understanding,
rereading as
necessary. (Foundational Skills).
Decoding and reading multisyllabic words, (wk1)Long a
Vowel,
Assessment
Spelling Test
(wk2)Long I vowel
(wk1) Fluency passage – “One
Birthday for All”
Resources
Notes
Literacy Work Station Flip
Charts
Transparency 3
Transparency 5
RF.3.3 67A-67B
RF.3.3 pages 113C- 113D
(wk2) Fluency passage “Babe”
RF3.4b 73A
Read with phrasing,
expression to support
comprehension
Using fluency and expression,
partner read leveled readers
practicing decoding long a
words, multi-syllabic words
and checking for
understanding.
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
1. Write opinion pieces on topics or
texts, supporting a point of view with
reasons.
a. Introduce the topic or text they are
writing about, state an opinion, and
create an organizational structure that
lists reasons. (Writing).
4. With guidance and support from
adults, produce writing in which the
development and organization are
appropriate to task and purpose.
(Grade-specific expectations for writing
types are defined in standards 1–3
above.) (Writing)
Content/Skills
Recalling text Details, point
of view, opinion
Assessment
Culminating Activity: Student
researches “Wolves” using the
internet and encyclopedia.
Student will choose the topics:
wolf habitats, diet,
adaptations and behaviors.
The student will generate a
paragraph using supporting
details along with illustrations
or captions to explain their
findings.
Resources
Notes
Jane Schaffer vocabulary,
color coded one chunk
paragraph descriptive or
narrative 4 pt. response.
Writing prompt: Goodwillie
Environmental School is
friendly to the environment.
Use 3 concrete details from
the story that explains how
they help our planet Earth.
Identify topic using
illustrations facts and details
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
7. Conduct short research projects that
build knowledge about a topic.
(Writing).
3. Ask and answer questions about
information from a speaker, offering
appropriate elaboration and
details. (Speaking & Listening).
6. Speak in complete sentences when
appropriate to task and situation in
order to provide requested
detail or clarification. (See grade 3
Language standards 1 and 3 on pages 28
and 29 for specific expectation).
(Speaking & Listening).
Content/Skills
Assessment
Resources
Notes
Research , use technology
Speaking, listening,
explaining and expanding
Within the culminating
activity, student will present
their findings in detail.
Students will ask and answer
questions throughout the
presentation.
Staying on Topic
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
1. Demonstrate command of the
conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing and
speaking.
a. explain the function of nouns,
pronouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives,
and adverbs in general and their
functions in particular sentences
h. use coordinating and subordinating
conjunctions
i. Produce simple, compound, and
complex sentences(Language)
4. Determine the meaning of words and
phrases as they are used in a text,
distinguishing literal from non-literal
language. .(Language – Vocabulary
Acquisition and Use)
a. Identify new meanings for familiar
words and apply them accurately, (e.g.,
knowing duck is a bird and learning the
Content/Skills
identify types of sentences
(WK 1) subjects and
predicates. (WK 2)
compound sentences
Assessment
Grammar workbook page to
assess subjects, predicates,
and compound sentences
Vocabulary, Comprehension
Suffixes er, est
Resources
Notes
Weekly Fluency “A Messy Job”
Practice identifying subjects,
predicated and compound
sentences in their grammar
workbooks.
(WK 1) 111G
(WK 2) 145G
L.3.1a page 77K
L.3.1h page 145G
Build Vocabulary
Understanding using the 5Day Vocabulary.
Read “The Wolves of Winter!”
Informational Text-Expository
and analyze the meaning of
unknown words using context
clues. p.79A-79B.
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 1- Unit 2 Let’s Learn:
Earth Smart 2 Week Cycle
Sept. 3- Sept. 13
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Question for this Quarter: What do all of the
Standards
verb to duck).
b. Use most frequently occurring
inflections and affixes (e.g.,-ed, -s, re-,
un-, pre-, -ful,-less) as a clue to the
meaning to an unknown word.
Content/Skills
Assessment
Resources
Notes
L.3.4d
Use a glossary
d Use glossaries or beginning
dictionaries, both print and digital, to
determine or clarify the precise meaning
of key words and phrases. Language
Natural Resources
Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
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