Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
Content/Skills
2. Recount stories, including
Folktale, central
fables, folktales, and myths
message
from diverse cultures;
determine the central message,
lesson, or moral and explain
how it is conveyed through key
details in the text. Literature
3. Describe characters in a
story (e.g., their traits,
motivations, or feelings) and
explain how their actions
contribute to the sequence of
events Literature
Assessment
Notes
Selection assessment
NM Weekly State Prep
Character traits,
Sequence of events
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
Resources
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
4.Determine the meaning of
general academic and domainspecific words and phrases in a
text relevant to a grade 3 topic
Literature
Content/Skills
Context clues
5. Use text features and search
tools (e.g., key words, sidebars,
hyperlinks) to locate information
relevant to a given topic
efficiently. Informational
Text features(reading
a chart)
6. Distinguish their own point of
view from that of the author of a
text. Informational
Point of view
Assessment
Culminating Activity:
Brainstorm classic stories
they would like to research
such as myths, fairy tales,
and legends. Pick one of
the stories and research its
origin and how it changed
over time. Record findings
on a pamphlet or poster
board. Be sure to include
examples of text features
and story elements
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
Resources
Notes
Paired Selection “What’s for Lunch?”
pg. 304
Use context clues to define
highlighted vocabulary on pg 304-305
Practice reading chart on pg. 305 to
better understand the text.
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
3. Know and apply grade-level
phonics and word analysis skills
in decoding words.
Foundational
Content/Skills
Assessment
Spelling Test
Resources
Notes
Transparency 26
Transparency 29
RF.3.3 pages 297C-297D
3a Identify and know the
meaning of the most common
prefixes and derivational
suffixes. Foundational
4. Read with sufficient accuracy
and fluency to support
comprehension. Foundational
(wk1) Weekly Fluency
Passage “Play Ball”
(wk2)”Plant Art”
4a. Read grade-level text with
purpose and understanding.
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
Foundational
4b.Read grade-level prose and
poetry orally with accuracy,
appropriate rate, and
expression on successive
readings. Foundational
4c. Use context to confirm or
self-correct word recognition
and understanding, rereading
as necessary. Foundational
5. With guidance and support
from peers and adults, develop
and strengthen writing as
needed by planning, revising,
and editing. (Editing for
conventions should
demonstrate command of
Language standards 1-3 up to
Content/Skills
Assessment
(wk1) prefixes
(wk2)r-controlled
syllables
apply phonemic
awareness and
phonics to decode
unknown words
Notes
RF.3.4b page 304A
prefixes
fluency and accuracy
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
Resources
Respond to story writing prompt:
How does culture affect the different
versions of stone soup? Write a two
chunk paragraph comparing and
contrasting the two versions.
*Note to teacher- read aloud another
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
Content/Skills
Assessment
Resources
and including grade 3)Writing
version of Stone Soup (bookroom).
2. Determine the main ideas
and supporting details of a text
read aloud or information
presented in diverse media and
formats, including visually,
quantitatively, and orally.
Listening and speaking
Find main idea to “Family Feast” ,
“What’s for lunch, or any other text
1a.Explain the function of
nouns, pronouns, verbs,
adjectives, and adverbs in
general and their functions in
particular sentences.
Language
2a.Capitalize appropriate words
in titles. Language
Context clues, selfcorrecting, rereading
Grammar adjectives test
page 130
Adjectives and articles pages 126-130
L.3.1a page 309G
Writing process
Topic and concluding
statements,
supporting details,
temporal words
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
Notes
L.3.1 page 383G
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
Content/Skills
Assessment
Resources
Notes
Black History Month
Mixtures and solutions
Main idea,
supporting details,
visual and oral
presentation
Adjectives
Capitalize proper
nouns, titles
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
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Portales Municipal Schools
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Reading and Language Arts
Quarter: 4: Unit 13
Storytellers: Stone Soup 2
Week Cycle March 17.
March 28
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Essential Questions for this Quarter: What details help you make inferences about characters, their relationships, and plot events?
Standards
Content/Skills
Assessment
Literature Skill, Grammar Skill, Phonics Skill, Culminating Activity, Weekly Fluency
Stone Soup/Cook-a-Doodle -Doo!
Resources
Notes
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