Newton Conover City Schools Instructional Guide
2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
Essential Questions
Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and
skills to read and write.
Objective 1.01
Apply phonics and structural analysis to decode
words (e.g., roots, suffixes, prefixes, less common
vowel patterns, syllable breaks).
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Objective 1.02
Apply meanings of common prefixes and suffixes to
decode words in text to assist comprehension.
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Objective 1.03
Integrate prior experiences and all sources of
information in the text (graphophonic, syntactic, and
semantic) when reading orally and silently.
Objective 1.04
Increase sight vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
*Scott Foresman Reading
Street Basal
*Accelerated Reader
How do you use phonics to -word part
decode words?
-compound word
*Making Words
-consonants
*Mountain Language
-syllables
(Th)
*Root Word Jeopardy
*SRA (Sh)
How do you apply
meanings of common
prefixes and suffixes to
decode words?
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ReUnMisPre-ed
-ing
-ment
-ness
Root word
How do you use your own
experiences to help you
understand the passage or
story you are reading?
- How do you use what you
already know to understand
what you read?
- What strategies can be used
-Synonym
increase sight, reading, and writing -Antnonym
*Mountain Language
(Th)
*Prefix/Suffix Families
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*Literature Circles
*Book Talks
*Cloze Activities
*Word Banks
*Word Wall
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3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
writing vocabulary through:
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vocabulary?
wide reading.
word study.
listening.
discussion.
book talks.
book clubs.
seminars.
viewing.
role play.
studying author's craft.
Objective 1.05
Use word reference materials (e.g., dictionary,
glossary) to confirm decoding skills, verify spelling,
and extend meanings of words.
Objective 1.06
Read independently daily from self-selected
materials (consistent with the student's independent
reading level) to:
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Essential Questions
increase fluency
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
*Personal Dictionary
*Readers Theater
*Literature Circles
- How do you use reference
materials correctly?
- How can you explain to a partner
what you are reading
independently?
- guided words
-multi-meaning words
-Theasaurs
-Glossary
-Wikipedia
-encyclopedia
-definition
-atlas
*Dictionary Races
*Glossary Races
*Reading Logs
*Classroom Reading
Library
*Library Books
*Supplemental Reading
*Star Test
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2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
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Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
build background knowledge
extend vocabulary.
Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to
comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
Objective 2.01
Use metacognitive strategies to comprehend text
(e.g., reread, read ahead, ask for help, adjust reading
speed, question, paraphrase, retell).
Objective 2.02
Interact with the text before, during, and after
reading, listening, or viewing by:
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setting a purpose.
previewing the text.
making predictions.
asking questions.
locating information for specific purposes.
making connections.
using story structure and text organization to
comprehend.
- What strategies do you use to
comprehend text?
-How do you interact with the text
before, during, and after reading,
listening or viewing the text?
-How does this remind you of
something that happened to you
before?
-Based on this selection what do
you believe will most likely
happen next?
-context clues
-foreshadowing
-purpose
-selection
-text
-predict
-title
-subtitle
-subheading
-italics
-bold print
-footnote
-introduction
-section
-phrase
*Scott Foresman Reading
Street Basal
*Accelerated Reader
*Kathy Bumgarner
Literacy Strategies
*Graphic Organizer
*Story maps
*NC Thinking Skills
*Written Responses
*Oral Retellings
*Journal responses
*KWL
*Story maps
*Activities for any Novel
(AIG Lending Library)
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3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
Objective 2.03
Read a variety of texts, including:
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fiction (short stories, novels, fantasies, fairy
tales, fables).
nonfiction (biographies, letters, articles,
procedures and instructions, charts, maps).
poetry (proverbs, riddles, limericks, simple
poems).
drama (skits, plays).
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
-selection
-passage
-caption
-foreshadowing
-paragraph
-category
-summarize
-timeline
-compare
-contrast
-genre-various types of
genre
-How do you compare and contrast -autobiography
different genres?
-category
-poet
-folk tale
-tall tale
-dialogue
-legend
-instruction
-consumer
-recipe
-scene
-setting
-myth
-science fiction
-realistic fiction
-ingredient
-What are some characteristics of
various genre?
*Leveled Books
*Content Area Reading
*Genre Bingo
*I have, who has
*Genre Bulletin Board
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Objective 2.04
Identify and interpret elements of fiction and
nonfiction and support by referencing the text to
determine the:
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author's purpose.
plot.
conflict.
sequence.
resolution.
lesson and/or message.
main idea and supporting details.
cause and effect.
fact and opinion.
point of view (author and character).
author's use of figurative language (e.g.,
simile, metaphor, imagery).
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
-stanza
-verse
-rhyme
-dialogue
-How can you use reading
strategies to identify and interpret
elements of fiction and nonfiction?
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-entertain
-inform
-persuade
-climax
-moral
-theme
-mood
-topic
-narrator
-personification
-simile
-metaphor
-onomatopeia
-alliteration
-idiom
-summarize
-author
-narrator
-illustrator
-reader
-analogy
-speaker
-context clues
-chronological order
*Kathy Bumgarner
Literacy Stations and
Strategies
*Oral Discussions
*Thinking Maps
*Graphic Organizers
*Learning Well Reading
Comprehension Games
(Th)
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Objective 2.05
Draw conclusions, make generalizations, and gather
support by referencing the text.
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
-characteristics
-What conclusions can you draw
from the text and what do you base
these conclusions on?
Objective 2.06
Summarize main idea(s) from written or spoken
texts using succinct language.
-How can you explain and discuss
the main idea of a selection?
Objective 2.07
Explain choice of reading materials congruent with
purposes (e.g., solving problems, making decisions).
-What is the purpose of reading
this particular text at this time?
Objective 2.08
Listen actively by:
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facing the speaker.
making eye contact.
asking questions to clarify the message.
asking questions to gain additional
information and ideas.
-context clues
-infer
-theme
-topic
-supporting details
-main purpose
-mostly about
*Written or spoken
responses
*Thinking Maps
*Graphic Organizers
*Response Journals
*Explore internet
*Thinking Maps
-dialogue
-What strategies can you
implement to be an active listener?
*Story Tapes
*Guest Speakers
*P.A. Announcements
*Response Journal
*Retelling/Summarizing
Notes
Newton Conover City Schools Instructional Guide
2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
*Scott Foresman Reading
Street Basal
Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the
use of oral language, written language, and media and
technology.
Objective 3.01
Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama
using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes
by:
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considering the differences among genres.
relating plot, setting, and characters to own
experiences and ideas.
considering main character's point of view.
participating in creative interpretations.
making inferences and drawing conclusions
about characters and events.
reflecting on learning, gaining new insights,
and identifying areas for further study.
-How can you compare and
contrast the different genres?
-inference
-reflect
-interpret
-How is the main character (s) in
this selection like you or someone
you know?
*Literature Circles
*Reading Contracts
*Tic-Tac-Toe Boards
*Kathy Bumgarner
Literacy Strategies
*Venn Diagram
*Thinking Maps
*Graphic Organizers
-How can you creatively interpret
the selection or text?
-What can you infer about the
characters and the events in the
selection?
-How can you support your
conclusion about the selection?
-How do you reflect on your
learning from the selection or text?
Objective 3.02
Identify and discuss similarities and differences in
events, characters, concepts and ideas within and
-How are characters, concepts,
events, and ideas similar and
-similar
-different
-compare
*Venn Diagram
*Thinking Maps
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3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
across selections and support them by referencing
the text.
Objective 3.03
Use text and own experiences to verify facts,
concepts, and ideas.
Objective 3.04
Make informed judgments about television
productions.
Objective 3.05
Compare and contrast printed and visual information
(e.g., graphs, charts, maps).
Objective 3.06
Conduct research for assigned and self-selected
projects (with assistance) from a variety of sources
(e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people,
libraries, databases, computer networks).
Essential Questions
different?
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
-contrast
*Reflections
*Learning Logs
*Response Journals
-How can your personal
experiences and the text help you
understand this passage?
*T.V.
-What is the author’s purpose in
the television production?
-How do you use graphs, maps,
and charts to compare and contrast
printed information?
-scale
-compass rose
-legend
-longitude
-latitude
*Create a graph/chart
*Venn Diagram
*Thinking Maps
Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to
create oral, written, and visual texts.
*Wax Museum
*Publish Books
*Perform Plays
*Graphic Organizers
*Christmas Around the
World
*Scott Foresman Reading
Street Basal
Objective 4.01
*Reader’s Theater
-How do you use a variety of
sources to conduct a research
product?
Notes
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2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
Read aloud grade-appropriate text with fluency,
comprehension, and expression.
Objective 4.02
Use oral and written language to:
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present information in a sequenced, logical
manner.
discuss.
sustain conversation on a topic.
share information and ideas.
recount or narrate.
answer open-ended questions.
report information on a topic.
explain own learning.
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
-How can you demonstrate
*Peer Reading
effective presentation skills when
*Coral Reading
reading aloud to an audience?
*Timed Readings
*Participation Readings
*Tape Recording
*KWLH Charts
-What strategies can you use to
*Literacy
explain what you have learned?
Stations/Centers
*Response Journals
Objective 4.03
Share written and oral products in a variety of ways
(e.g., author's chair, book making, publications,
discussions, presentations).
-What are some ways you can
share your writing and oral
products with others?
Objective 4.04
Use planning strategies (with assistance) to generate
-What planning strategies can you
*Bare Books (to create
books)
*Author’s Chair
*Perform literacy works
*Peer Readings
*Display Writings
*Publish Books
*Thinking Maps
*Empowering Writers
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2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
topics and to organize ideas (e.g., drawing, mapping,
discussing, listing).
Objective 4.05
Identify (with assistance) the purpose, the audience,
and the appropriate form for the oral or written task.
Objective 4.06
Compose a draft that conveys major ideas and
maintains focus on the topic by using preliminary
plans.
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
use to generate topics and organize
ideas?
- How do you compose a well
written story?
Objective 4.07
Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and -How do you write: fiction,
drama selections using self-selected topics and forms nonfiction, poetry, and drama?
(e.g., poems, simple narratives, short reports,
learning logs, letters, notes, directions, instructions).
Objective 4.08
Focus reflection and revision (with assistance) on
target elements by:
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clarifying ideas.
adding descriptive words and phrases.
sequencing events and ideas.
combining short, related sentences.
*Write a letter for a
specific purpose
*Wee Deliver (Th)
-How can you identify the
purpose, the audience, and the
appropriate form for oral and
written task?
-How do you analyze and revise
your writing to improve the quality
of writing?
-brainstorm
-plan
-circle map
-tree map
-indent
-indent
*Empowering Writers
*Writing Diamond
*Thinking Maps
*Empowering Writers
*Writing Centers
*Empowering Writers
*Caught Grammar with a
Giggle
*Peer Editing
*Editor’s Checklist
*Conferencing
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2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
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Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
strengthening word choice.
Objective 4.09
Produce work that follows the conventions of
particular genres (e.g., personal narrative, short
report, friendly letter, directions and instructions).
Objective 4.10
Explore technology as a tool to create a written
product.
*Empowering Writers
*Conferencing
- How do you write: fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and drama?
*Computers
*Story Board Program
-How do you use technology to
create a written product?
Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language
conventions to communicate effectively.
Objective 5.01
Use correct capitalization (e.g., geographical place
names, holidays, special events, titles) and
punctuation (e.g., commas in greetings, dates, city
and state; underlining book titles; periods after
initials and abbreviated titles; apostrophes in
contractions).
Objective 5.02
Use correct subject/verb agreement.
-What capitalization and
punctuation do you need to use in
your paper?
-indent
-colon
-quotation marks
-parenthesis
-Why is it important to use correct
-subject
-verb
*Scott Foresman Reading
Street Basal
*Mountain Language
(Th)
*Caught Grammar with a
Giggle
*Mountain Language
(Th)
*Caught Grammar with a
Giggle
*Conferencing
Daily Oral Language
*Skill Focus
*Caught Grammar with a
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Objective 5.03
Demonstrate understanding by using a variety of
complete sentences (declarative, imperative,
interrogative, and exclamatory) in writing and
speaking.
Objective 5.04
Compose two or more paragraphs with:
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Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
subject/verb agreement?
-agreement
Giggle
-adjective
*Mountain Language
-noun
(Th)
-subject
-predicate
-declarative
*Skill Focus
-How can you demonstrate a
-imperative
*Caught Grammar with a
variety of complete sentences in
-interrogative
Giggle
your writing and speaking?
-exclamatory
*Daily Oral Language
*Mountain Language
(Th)
-elaborate
*Compose paragraphs
-How do you present information
*Color code paragraphs
in a detailed, organized way?
*Empowering Writers
topic sentences.
supporting details.
appropriate, logical sequence.
sufficient elaboration.
Objective 5.05
Use a number of strategies for spelling (e.g., sound
patterns, visual patterns, silent letters, less common
letter groupings).
Objective 5.06
Proofread own writing for spelling and correct most
misspellings independently with reference to
-What strategies can you use to
spell words?
-Why is it important to proofread
your own writing?
*Word wall
*Sound out Syllables
*Spelling Instruction
*Sparkle
*Spelling Dictionaries
*Word Wall
Notes
Newton Conover City Schools Instructional Guide
2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
resources (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, word walls).
Objective 5.07
Edit (with assistance) to use conventions of written
language and format.
Objective 5.08
Create readable documents with legible handwriting
(manuscript and cursive).
Websites: (some websites to use)
www.lauracandler.com
www.funbrain.com
www.schoolexpress.com
www.edhelper.com
www.kathybumreading.com
www.teachertube.com
www.internet4classrooms.com
www.learnnc.com
www.ncwiseowl.com
www.studyisland.com
-How do you edit your own
writings?
-How do you use good
handwriting to create a readable
document?
*Empowering Writers
*Conferencing
*Caught Grammar with a
Giggle
*Mountain Language
(Th)
*Writer’s Workshop
*Empowering Writers
*1970s Cursive Video
(Th)
*Publishing/Writing
Center
*Learning Logs
Interactive Whiteboard Sites
http://technology.usd.259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm#ESL
http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/smart_favorites.html
Notes
Newton Conover City Schools Instructional Guide
2008-2009
3rd Grade Language Arts
Objective
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
Resources
(not a complete list of vocabulary words)
Notes