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Students
in third grade will be introduced to new words and literary
genres/texts during story time each week. Each week different
activities lend themselves to the incorporation of specific SPI's.
If you have questions
concerning anything with the MCE Media Center Curriculum, please contact me through the school
office.
Book location skills in Fiction and
Nonfiction
Use the SmartBoard to show shelf locations and Destiny to
remind students how to locate books using call numbers.
Review book location skills in Fiction
and Nonfiction
Read an excerpt from Ramona Quimby, Age 8
by Beverly Clearly
Read an excerpt from Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
| Read an excerpt from The Littles (Chapter 1-6) by Peterson | ||
| Show books by Betsy Byars and Judy Blume | Read a portion of Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. Show website of Judy Blume. | |
| Introduce the Parts of a Book 3.1.spi.3 | Discuss main idea, setting, characters, and plot 3.1.spi.4 | |
| Read a story. Identify the stated main idea. Identify the setting, characters, and plot (3.1.spi.4). | Write a brief summary of the main idea of the story (3.1.spi.11). | |
| Review Parts of a Book (3.1.spi.3). | Locate books on the shelves using Destiny, Smartboard, and list of books |
| Review fairy tales. | Discuss reliable information sources versus fairy tales and storybooks. SPI 3.1.15 and 3.2.14 | |
| Reading Is Fundamental | ||
| Dictionaries Unit.Show online dictionaries and locate print dictionaries. Review how to look up words. | Handout: Looking up Words |
| Show relationship between dictionaries and encyclopedias. Note the differences. | ||
| Look up concepts from the Social Studies wordlist in Encyclopedias. | ||
| Find reference material from the Tennessee Electronic Library that pertains to the Social Studies word list | ||
| Thanksgiving story and word puzzle. |
-- Read My name is Yoon by Helen
Recorvits. John Henry by Julius Lester
Discuss the similarities and differences of the two books.
-- Reading is Fundamental Each student will choose one book to keep. Please click on the link to read more about the RIF program.
-- Write a story about a person, real or fictional. Describe unusual features about the person or situations that your character encounters.
-- Christmas Break
--Welcome Back to School. Read!
-- Introduce "Reliable Sources of Information." Show Kids Infobits on TEL website. Discuss copyright laws and plagarism.
-- Discuss "Books and Newspapers" as reliable sources of information.
-- Discuss "Magazines and Websites" as reliable sources of information.
Black History Month
-- Using an Encyclopedia/Look up an assigned topic/Write down 5 facts.
-- Read My Red Balloon. Discuss the impact of a parent or loved one being away because of active duty.
-- Read Show Way by Jacqueline Woods. Show students different types of maps using the atlases. Excellent website by Woodson. http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com
-- Map awareness. Look at atlases, globes and maps.
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Reading
Is Fundamental and
Read Across America Day/Dr.
Seuss's birthday
.
-- Read Lost by David McPhail.
Look at different types of maps online and print.
Using the information about legends, maps and atlases,
students will draw a map showing how to get from the school to
their house.
-- Maps and
globes. Using the desk map provided, answer
questions on the SmartBoard.
-- Read Mudball by
Matt
Tavares. Show baseball books. Work on book
location skills in Fiction.
--
Book
location skills in nonfiction. Read Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa
by Erica Silverman.
POETRY MONTH
-- Read "Paul
Revere's Ride," in Once Upon a Poem:
Favorite Poems that tell Stories.
-- How to use a Telephone Directory.
SmartBoard activity.
-- TCAP Testing
begins on the 18th.
-- READ newspapers
and magazines.
-- All books
should be turned in.
-- Last week of
school
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