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Third Grade Skills Unit 4: Stories of Ancient Rome Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 4: Stories of Ancient Rome Unit Plan
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Core Knowledge Foundation
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3rd
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English Language Arts
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Duration
28 days
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

Third Grade Skills Unit 4: Stories of Ancient Rome

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  • CKLA Unit 4: Third Grade Skills—Stories of Ancient Rome (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 4 (.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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A unit covering stories of Ancient Rome examines spelling rules, suffixes, verbs, quotation marks, writing, and dictionary skills. Lessons follow a similar routine; reading, skills practice, and extension activities, followed by take-home materials. Assessments highlight pupils' strengths and areas to address.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

ancient rome, spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels, verb tenses, suffixes, Grammar, irregular verbs, quotation marks, reading, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, Writing, dictionary skills

Instructional Ideas

  • Combine ELA periods with Social Studies
  • Allow pupils to use hard copies and digital reference tools

Classroom Considerations

  • The fourth unit in an 11-unit series created by Core Knowledge
  • Set aside prep time to make copies and gather lesson-specific materials

Pros

  • The standards alignment chart details which Common Core standards each lesson addresses
  • A table of contents makes locating lessons easy

Cons

  • None

Common Core

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

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