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Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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3rd
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Science
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Duration
21 days
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Year
2013
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Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals

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  • CKLA Unit 2: Third Grade Skills—Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 2 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 2 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 2 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 2 (.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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An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, prefixes, suffixes, Grammar, subjects, predicates, linking verbs, cvc words, the -ed ending, the -ing ending, complete sentences, sentence fragments, abstract nouns, nouns, compound sentences

Instructional Ideas

  • Update an ELA focus wall on showcasing this unit's concepts alongside a science focus wall
  • Add books about animals to the classroom library

Classroom Considerations

  • The second unit in a series of 11 by Core Knowledge
  • Requires prep time to make copies and collect materials 

Pros

  • The interdisciplinary approach combines ELA with science

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.3.4 RI.3.7 RI.3.9 RI.3.10 RF.3.3.a RF.3.3.c RF.3.4.a RF.3.4.b W.3.1.b W.3.2.b W.3.8 SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.d L.3.1.a L.3.1.c L.3.1.i L.3.2.e L.3.2.f L.3.4.b L.3.4.d

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