5 School Lesson Plan
Dates: March 17 – March 21
3rd Grade READING
Objective & TEKS
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 3.13A,C,D
Obj: We will analyze, make inferences, and
draw conclusions about expository text and
provide evidence to support our
understanding.
Product: I will analyze, make inferences, and
draw conclusions about expository text and
provide evidence to support my
understanding.
Procedure
Interactive Read Aloud: The Power of Magnets
from Journeys Unit 6 Lesson 27.
-Using your (TEKS 3.13A,C,D ), you will need to
prepare deep comprehension questions,
discussion stems, or opportunities for students to
share their thinking during the read aloud.
-Prepare sticky notes with the questions and
place them on the appropriate page in a Student
Book you will use for your IRA. (There are
questions on pg.92 of your CLLG.)
-- Create the Informational Text Anchor Chart
with your students. Your Anchor chart should
include a working definition, noticings (author’s
purpose, graphic features, text features, main
idea, details, text structure, facts, and opinions)
and book examples you complete using your
IRA mentor text. Use CLLG pg.108 if help is
needed.
(see handouts for details)
Students read independent informational
selections from Journeys or the leveled readers
from your adoption. 3rd grade has a TON of
informational texts listed on pgs 112-121 in the
CLLG.
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 3.13A
Obj: We will identify the main idea or facts
that support the main idea.
Product: I will identify the main idea or facts
that support using the graphic organizer and
my independent text.
Minilesson: Main Idea
–USE Main Idea
Lesson Overview for
Expository Text
(see handouts for details)
Text: : The Power of Magnets from Journeys
Unit 6 Lesson 27
-Create the Main Idea Anchor Chart with your
students.
 Use preplanned stopping points to
determine the main idea of paragraph(s)
and then the entire selection using the
Main Idea graphic organizer with your
students
(see handouts for details)
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 3.13C
Obj: We will identify explicit cause and effect
relationships among ideas in texts.
Product: I will identify explicit cause and
effect relationships among ideas in text.
(You will need to print off “Moose on the
Move” selection from the website for
independent text)
Students use their independent informational
text to complete the Main Idea graphic
organizer in their Reader’s Notebook or on the
handout provided.
Minilesson: Cause and Effect
Text: “Frogs at Risk”
-Create the Cause and Effect Anchor Chart with
your students.
(see handouts for details)
 You will need to print off the “Frogs at
Risk” selection from the website to use
as your mentor text
 Have filled in 1 cause and model/work
with students to locate effect, also have
filled in 1 effect and model/work with
students to locate the cause
 Its important for the students to be able
to go both directions on the chart
Students use their independent informational
text to complete the Cause & Effect graphic
organizer in their Reader’s Notebook or on the
handout provided..
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 3.13D
Obj: We will use text features (e.g. guide
words, topic, and concluding sentences) to
locate information, make and verify
predictions about contents of text.
Product: I will use text features (e.g. guide
words, topic, and concluding sentences) to
locate information, make and verify
predictions about contents of text by using
the graphic organizer and a collection of
informational texts.
Minilesson: Text Features
Introduce text features by showing this YouTube video
on text features: Text Feature Lesson (click on this link
OR download the video from our website under
STAAR Lesson Plans) This video is 9 minutes long. If
you do not feel you have the time to watch this lesson
with your students, proceed to the minilesson and
anchor chart
-Create the Features of Informational/
Expository Text Anchor Chart with your
students using the examples from the handouts.
(see handouts for details)
***PLEASE REFER TO DETAILED
HANDOUT: Features of
Informational/ExpositoryText.***
Students complete the Features of
Informational/ Expository Text student page in
cooperative groups or partners using a social
studies or science textbook, informational
leveled readers, Journey’s informational texts,
and/or any other informational text.
***YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE COPIES OF
THE student pages, depending on how you
choose to structure this activity!***
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Genre: Informational Text
TEKS: 3.13A, 3.13C, 3.13D
Obj: We will understand, make inferences,
and draw conclusions about informational
texts.
Product: I will use make inferences, draw
conclusions about informational texts by
understanding what it looks like on STAAR.
Minilesson: Bridging to STAAR-What it looks
like on a Test
-Add STAAR stems to previously created
anchor charts
(Journeys Texas Assessment Preparation Book
has good short selections with questions stems
that match that are good for bridging. 3.13A
pg.81, 3.13C pg.77, 3.13D pg.101-102)