Using Wonders text and their Reading/Writing Companion, students will learn about the importance of landmarks and monuments to determine how they help us understand our country’s story.  After being provided with a list of monuments,landmarks and national parks, students will select one national park or monument to conduct guided research (students will be provided with an interactive Google Slide to assist in each step).  After conducting guided research, using a rubric students will create a virtual postcard using the Canva platform. *The formative assessment will include students making a virtual postcard using Canva. Students may not know what a postcard is. To help students connect, it would be a great idea to provide students with a postcard and allow them to mail it to a family member, or to another 3rd grade classroom. 

Students are introduced to the four types of local government by watching a parade slide show. Students research the services, roles, and duties of the four types of local government creating a local government guide. Students celebrate local government by role playing government officials or employees in a parade around school.

In this lesson, students independently apply close reading skills they have been building.

Students enjoy using the almanac and it is a great way to teach social studies and information skills like how to interpret a table or graph as well as ELA skills like how to scan for information. 

 Using Wonders text and their Reading/Writing Companion, students will learn why people immigrate to new places. Students will learn the difference in primary and secondary resources and why it is important to know where to get information. After reading texts from Wonders, students will use Google Earth to explore the places mentioned in the text and complete a Padlet discussing what they notice and wonder about the different locations. Students will be given an interactive note taking sheet on Jamboard to utilize as they read “The Castle on Hester Street”. Students will once again use Google Earth to explore Ellis Island as they begin to read “Next Stop, America!” and will complete a PearDeck text feature hunt. This will lead to a formative assessment where students will use FlipGrid to create a journal entry portraying themselves as an immigrant coming to America in the 1800’s.

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.

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.

Students will learn to find main idea in a nonfiction text about endangered rhinoceroses. Main idea should be taught prior to this lesson using reading strategies. Students should already know main idea is what the text is mainly about in one sentence. Students should be able to locate the main idea in the topic sentence, heading, last sentence of the text, and know it may be found in text features. This lesson was developed by Ashley Wondra as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson, "Skim, Scan, and Scroll," taken from a research skills unit, is a step towards students completing a written research report. Here, students learn to read informational text, looking for supporting details. After the skills of skimming and scanning printed and electronic texts are modeled by the teacher, students practice the skills on their own.

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. 

Students return to the classroom to find out that their class library has been destroyed. In order to find out who destroyed the class library, students must become "detectives" and observe the crime scene and read/listen to the main suspects' alibis to solve the Seussical Mystery.

This is the activity for the Seussical Mystery Inferencing task. Students work in cooperatives groups using their inferencing skills to solve the mystery.

Graphic organizers, anchor charts, and lesson ideas are included to teach text structure, which refers to how authors organize information in a text.

This lesson introduces students to using informational text features to learn vocabulary. Students are introduced to vocabulary notebooks.