3rd Grade ELA
138 Lessons
Moya Elementary
Phoenix, AZ
Student Environment:
Urban
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3rd Grade ELA
(17 Units, 138 Lessons)
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In preparation for our Biography Tea project, students explore various books about famous people to locate specific elements.
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Students conducted a mini-research project by reading a biography about a notable person in preparation for more extensive research for our Biography Tea.
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Students learn about plagiarism and how to avoid it. They create a step book in order to take brief notes as they conduct research on a famous person.
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Students apply what they have learned in the previous three lessons to begin researching their famous person for the Biography Tea.
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Students continue applying what they have learned in the previous four lessons to conduct research about their famous person for the Biography Tea.
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Students continue gathering information to learn about their chosen famous person and write an informational essay. In this lesson, they focus on interesting facts.
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Students apply what they have learned in previous note-taking lessons to continue researching their famous person for the Biography Tea using an encyclopedia.
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I took students to the computer lab where each had access to a laptop computer. I started the lesson by reminding students that researching involves gathering information from multiple sources.
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Students have concluded five days of research. They gathered information from multiple print and digital sources about a famous person of their choosing. It is time to write the informative essay.
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Students apply what they have learned in previous lessons about conjunctions to produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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Students make corrections to their informational essay about a famous person they have been working on in preparation for the Biography Tea.
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Students use a word processing program to type their biography report for the final stage of the writing process.
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Students are assessed on their written informative essay about a famous person for the Biography Tea
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Students write speeches as they take on the persona of their famous person for our Biography Tea.
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Students recite the speeches they have written for the Biography Tea.
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Students work to create a display board about the life of their famous person for the Biography Tea.
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Students take on the persona of their famous person to tell about their life and accomplishments and answer questions from the audience.
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