This resource provides a week long lesson plan centered around Dr. Martin Luther King jr, and the book Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King jr, by Doreen Rappaport. This is a remix including a video link authored by Scholastic. The video can be used to introduce a lesson. https://goopennc.oercommons.org/courses/the-man-who-changed-america-martin-luther-king

Children create top hats out of paper by reading or listening to directions that use simple terms from geometry. After making the hat, they measure their heights with and without the hat, and then take a picture wearing the hat.

In this lesson, students use comprehension skills to discuss and respond to questions about a text.

This lesson encourages students' natural curiosity about spiders and builds on their prior knowledge. After a shared reading of Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin, students work cooperatively using a strategy called Fact–"Faction"–Fiction to identify what they know, gather information, and create their own multimedia diaries using PowerPoint. Although the topic example used here is spiders, this lesson is easily adaptable to any content area topic.

In this lesson, students use comprehension skills to discuss and respond to questions about a text.

In this lesson, students continue to build their reading skills and expertise about a specific freaky frog by reading about Freaky Frogs: "The Amazon Horned Frog."

In this lesson, students build their reading skills and expertise about a specific freaky frog by reading one section of the text Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures.

In this lesson, students continue to build their reading skills and expertise about a specific freaky frog by reading one section of the text Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures.

In this lesson, students will read about different kinds of frogs and use a different recording form for each lesson. Students also will have a vocabulary notebook that they use routinely throughout the unit.

In this lesson, students will actively read Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World using the suggested reading strategies. Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes a list of challenge words, active reading suggestions, and background information.

This resource contains resources that will help students understand that writers use different structures to organize nonfiction texts and that readers need to know a variety of reading strategies appropriate for the text and their purpose for reading such text. Reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading are shared as well as graphic organizers.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade ELA.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 3rd Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade English Language Arts. 

Using Wonders Literature Anthology and students Reading/Writing Companion, students will learn “What we know about Earth and its neighbors”.  Students will read about discoveries in space and how we learn more about our solar system.  After reading texts from Wonders using literature anthology and student reading writing companion, students will be placed in 9 groups (representing one planet each) and conduct research on their planet.  Students will create a one pager displaying a drawing or image of their planet with six facts (facts must include size, temperature, and an option of four other facts).  Students will then utilize Makey Makey to conduct an oral presentation of their project by coding and recording facts.  After completion, students will do a Gallery Walk to visit each planet while completing interactive guided note sheet in Google Slides.

In this lesson, students will use thematically related texts, organized from least to most complex, to gather a word bank of supporting details and content vocabulary about a concept. Then they use these words as a basis for writing acrostic poems, which support organization of information around a central idea, as the lines of an acrostic poem are held together by the topic or main idea spelled vertically.