Third grade students will identify and discuss facts and details from expository text and draw conclusions using textual evidence in learning stations.

Students will explore cause and effect relationships by creating different representations of a cause or an effect from a given scenario.

Students participate in an activity where they must link cause and effect statements using transition words. The lesson is designed with English learners in mind, and it includes instructional strategies designed to provide comprehensible input, such as visuals and collaborative learning.
 

Students will analyze multiple texts on the same topic to identify the text structures used and find each author’s purpose.

Students will focus on context clues in a vocabulary lesson.

Students will be able to identify cause and effect relationships using an expository text.

Students collaborate in small groups to discuss their peers’ poetry and assess the poetry according to the student-created rubric. The rubric assesses students’ ability to make meaningful connections to the poetic devices in their poetry. Through collaboration, they are building a culture of receptiveness among their peers.

The students will watch the teacher model how to create a summary, and then work in groups to create a summary from an expository text.

The students will read and summarize expository text using a graphic organizer to aid the process.

In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to make inferences about the structure and elements of poetry, and provide textual evidence to support their understanding.

Students will identify explicit cause and effect relationships using keywords and phrases while reading relevant informational texts aligned with technology and current events.

Students will use a checklist to peer edit a composition. They will check for coherence through the proper use of transition words and conjunctions.

Students will discover the necessary components of a complete sentence and use the complete subject and complete predicate in their own writing through a process called ratiocination.

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The lesson will support students’ writing a first draft of a personal narrative story by providing opportunities to listen to their previously recorded story, review their (graphic organizer) draft web, and add sticky notes with further details to their webs.

Students look for meaning in poems using poetry tools and work in groups to identify how parts of poems fit together to give a message. They then independently infer the message from a poem their teacher reads.