Students distinguish between physical and mental action verbs and identify how they drive a narrative forward.
A 3rd-grade ELA lesson focused on reading a narrative passage and answering comprehension questions in the style of the NYS ELA exam. Students explore the theme of overcoming a challenge through the story of a girl facing her fear of the high dive.
Summative assessment on RI.3.1 using a comprehensive extreme weather passage.
A collaborative review and guided practice session preparing for the final assessment.
Students learn to generate their own questions and locate answers within a text about hurricanes.
Focused practice on answering explicit questions using a reading passage about tornadoes.
Introduction to RI.3.1 and building foundational skills for finding evidence in weather-related texts.
A week-long series of warm-up activities focusing on historical biographies and RI.3.1 standards to prepare students for end-of-grade testing.
A cumulative review and formal assessment of dictionary navigation and entry analysis skills.
Focuses on the anatomy of a dictionary entry, specifically how to identify and choose between multiple definitions based on sentence context.
Introduction to the physical and digital structure of a dictionary, with a deep dive into using guide words for rapid word location.
A collection of worksheets designed to help students write structured biographical paragraphs about historical figures using mind maps and sentence starters. Each worksheet features a unique theme tailored to the figure's profession.
Students identify antonym clues to understand what a word is NOT, using contrasting pictures to solve the vocabulary puzzle.
Students use synonym clues to find words that mean the same thing as the unknown word, using pictures to match similar concepts.
Students explore example clues, where a sentence provides specific instances of a word to help reveal its meaning, paired with helpful visual supports.
Students learn to identify definition clues in sentences where the meaning of a tricky word is explained directly, using illustrations to confirm their findings.
A lesson focused on narrative sequencing and logical flow through the lens of mystery and suspense stories. Students analyze transition words, cause and effect, and character development to reorder scrambled narratives.
