Standards

Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

• Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of materials.

• People apply critical thinking skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

• Throughout history, humans have used literature as a record of their experiences.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

• Why do we need to understand what we read or hear? How do we use strategies and skills to understand a variety of materials?

• What is critical thinking? Why is critical thinking important? How do we apply critical thinking skills?

• How and why do humans use literature to record their experiences? How has history influenced literature and vice versa?

Standards
Must be Mastered by End of Year Must be Introduced Other Standards & E-skills

Fluency

At the end of quarter two, students will be able to read 250 of these sight words. Other words will be learned from phonics, spelling and vocabulary programs to total the expected 1000+ words.
Adjust reading pace according to difficulty of text.

Vocabulary
Understand and use vocabulary essential to text.

Comprehension
1.b Summarize text passages.
1.c Identify main idea, and find information to support particular ideas.
1.d Draw inferences using contextual clues.
1.g Use word recognition skills and resources (for example, phonics, context clues, picture clues, reference guides, roots, prefixes and suffixes of words) for comprehension.

Writing: Writes for a Variety of Purposes
Write in a variety of modes such as personal narrative, friendly letters, and expository pieces.
Write summaries demonstrating understanding of main idea and supporting details.
        Use graphic organizers to identify main ideas and supporting details. 
        Summarize for a variety of purposes.
        Use the writing process with guidance from teacher.
        Develop a five sentence paragraph.

Writing:  Conventions, Mechanics, and Grammar  3^rd Grade Writing Rubric
        Use correct grammar.
        Write in complete sentences.
        Write legibly.
        Use dictionary and thesaurus.
        Use subject-verb agreement.

        Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives in writing.
 

During the 2007-2008 school year,  Literacy Resource Teachers and classroom teachers will be correlating textbook pages to the emphasized standards for each month. Also, teachers will be developing District 11 Diamond Lessons for each quarter.
 

Reading Programs

Writing Programs

Lessons