Clair Hoey's List: Common Core - Third Grade

Students are questioned about the words in a text on a daily basis, but what about the images? Pictures can help increase students' understanding of the text, topic, or story. In this multisession lesson designed for struggling readers, students are guided through a viewing of David Wiesner’s Tuesday, a wordless picture book. As students view the images, they are asked four different types of questions about the pictures. The questions range in difficulty from those with answers that can be found in the text to those that require inferences. Students learn to categorize questions by the four question types and use pictures to help them better understand a story. Students then apply what they learned to an independent reading of Istvan Banyai's Zoom. Students complete a worksheet with a series of questions about the story and then reflect on the usefulness of the questioning strategy

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes) (A series of two lessons).

Reading and interpreting the non-narrative nonfiction article, "The Boston Tea Party" by Michael A. Signal (A series of five lessons).

Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings (A series of two lessons).

Interpreting a narrative writing prompt, brainstorming topics and drafting and revising a narrative response in the 3rd grade for the prompt: Sometimes, even the best of friends can disagree. Think about a time you and a friend had a disagreement. What did you disagree over? What happened? Now write a story about a time you and a friend had a disagreement (A series of seven lessons).

nterpreting a narrative writing prompt, brainstorming topics and drafting and revising a narrative response in the 3rd grade for the prompt: You are in your classroom with your teacher and classmates. Suddenly, your principal makes an announcement that there is a surprise in the cafeteria. Write a story that tells what happens next (A series of seven lessons).

Reading and responding to text-dependent questions by gathering evidence from the text and text features, organizing ideas, and writing an evidence-based response in the 3rd grade (A series of eight lessons).

Brainstorm, plan, and write an argumentative essay in the third grade (A series of seven lessons)

Brainstorm, plan, and write an argumentative essay in the third grade (A series of seven lessons)

Understanding what a syllable is, counting syllables in a word, practicing breaking words into syllables, in isolation and in the context of a text (A series of two lessons).

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, including decoding multisyllable word (A series of five lessons)

Know final -econventions for representing long vowel sounds (A series of four lessons).

Using the syllable chart to understand closed syllables, types of vowel sounds, identifying and decoding words with 2 closed syllables, in isolation and in the context of a text (A series of six lessons)

Decoding Cle words (A series of four lessons).

Using the syllable chart to understand and identify open syllable types, idenfying and decoding words with 3 syllables, including a mix of open and closed syllable types, in isolation and in the context of a text (A series of five lessons)

Using different strategies to read texts with dialogue with expression and prosody (A series of seven lessons).

Decoding words with the r-controlled syllables ar, er, ir, ur, and or in isolation and in the context of a text (A series of ten lessons).

Noticing and using punctuation to fluently read passages, including reading with periods, commas, exclamation points, and colons. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension (A series of 5 lessons).

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes) by segmenting and blending three and four phoneme words (A series of eight lessons).

Reading, analyzing, and gathering information and evidence from informational texts and using that information to write an informational text. This set draws on three texts about the science behind animal camouflage (A series of twelve lessons).