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Third Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
21 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Third Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America

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This Third Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 10: Third Grade Skills—Living in Colonial America (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 10 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 10 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 10 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 10 (.pdf)
  • Consonant Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Vowel Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Spelling Cards (.pdf)
  • Wiggle Cards (.pdf)
  • Assessment and Remediation Guide (.pdf)
  • Fluency Packet (.pdf)
  • Individual Code Chart (.pdf)
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Over three weeks, third graders participate in lessons designed to boost spelling and grammar skills—adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns—and prefixes. Readings are themed to share stories about Colonial America.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, comparative adjectives, superlative adjectives, prefixes, adverbs, pronouns, subject pronouns, colonial america, reading, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, responding to reading

Instructional Ideas

  • Update pupils' unit portfolios, adding assessments and completed work
  • Reference a focus wall that showcases the units' concepts, vocabulary, and images

Classroom Considerations

  • The tenth unit of 11 in Core Knowledge's series for third graders
  • The "Lesson at a Glance" sections list materials needed

Pros

  • The unit provides lots of detail, helps calendars, and teaching tips 
  • Lessons follow a similar routine

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.3 RL.3.5 RL.3.7 RL.3.10 RI.3.2 RI.3.4 RI.3.7 RF.3.3.a RF.3.3.c RF.3.3.d RF.3.4.a W.3.1.c W.3.2.b W.3.2.c SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.c SL.3.1.d L.3.1.a L.3.1.f L.3.1.g L.3.2.f L.3.4.b L.3.4.d L.3.5.b

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