Students will create a collection using objects, participate in a read-aloud, create another collection using sight word cards, and present their collections to the class.

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

Students will participate in stations with board games that reinforce rhyming, onset, and rimes, and blending.

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

Students will focus on context clues in a vocabulary lesson.

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

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 use alphabet cards to create consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words and encode and decode given CVC words.

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 engage in activities that allow them to take a book walk and use criteria to choose a good-fit book, use strategies to self-monitor their own comprehension while independently reading, and use partner talk criteria to reflect on their strategies collaboratively. 

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.