3rd Grade ELA
80 Lessons
James C Bush Elementary School
Johnsburg, IL
Rural Environment
3rd Grade ELA
(6 Units, 80 Lessons)
Unit 5 - Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text(19 Lessons)
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 1 of 8: Chapters 1-33rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The journey begins! The students embark on a journey of understanding how a novel builds as they meet characters and are introduced to the setting in chapters 1-3 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 2 of 8: Chapters 4-63rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 4-6 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 3 of 8: Chapters 7-103rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 7-10 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 4 of 8: Chapters 11-143rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 11-14 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 5 of 8: Chapters 15-173rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 15-17 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 6 of 8: Chapters 18-213rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 18-21 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 7 of 8: Chapters 22-253rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 22-25 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Day 8 of 8: Chapters 26-Coda3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The journey concludes! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they finish the novel, reading chapters 26, 27, and the Coda in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day One: Prepare for Launch!3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The students begin an inquiry-based planet research project.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Two: Researching with Digital and Print Sources3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The students begin reading informational text in digital and print forms about the planet they're researching. They answer questions that they generated and take brief notes on notecards.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Three: Researching with Digital and Print Text3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The students continue reading informational text in digital and print forms about the planet they're researching. They answer questions that they generated and take brief notes on notecards.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Four: Researching with Digital and Print Text Continued3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The students complete reading informational text in digital and print forms about the planet they're researching. They answer questions that they generated and take brief notes on notecards.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Five: Word Choice Day!3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:Creative words and phrases fly like shooting stars as the students brainstorm, and use resources to locate amazing adjectives, similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, and idioms.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Six: Begin Rough Drafts3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:Following a checklist, the students create their rough draft, and edit to make their writing better.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Seven: Rough Drafts Take Two3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
Big Idea:The students complete their planet report rough drafts today!
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Eight: Final Drafts3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:It's final draft day! Your astronomers are almost finished. They take their time, a little less than a light year, and polish up their final drafts.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Nine: Text Features and Publishing3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:Your astronomers create out of this world nonfiction text features to finish their report.
Cosmically Cool Planet Research! Day Ten: Space Museum3rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The students participate in a "Space Museum". They share information about their planets, reports, and space prop display with each other, and another classroom of students.
Text and Text Features: Critiquing and Redesigning Day 1 of 13rd Grade ELA» Unit:Out of this World! Exploring Enriching Literature and Cosmically Cool Informational Text
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Big Idea:The students read informational text, make connections of the support between text and features, and choose a page in the book to redesign for better understanding.
