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Third Grade Skills Unit 6: Gods, Giants, and Dwarves Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 6: Gods, Giants, and Dwarves 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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Resource Type
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Duration
14 days
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

Third Grade Skills Unit 6: Gods, Giants, and Dwarves

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  • CKLA Unit 6: Third Grade Skills—Gods, Giants, and Dwarves (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 6 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 6 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 6 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 6 (.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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The halfway mark of a series offers final skills practice in spelling patterns, suffixes, and building sentences with conjunctions in preparation for assessments that gauge proficiency. Remediation and enrichment follow the test results alongside fictional readings of Norse myths about gods, giants, and dwarfs.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, suffixes, conjunctions, sentences, writing sentences, reading, responding to reading, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, fiction, myths, gods

Instructional Ideas

  • Add assessments to portfolios, review progress, and plan future lessons accordingly 
  •  Share test results with parents and guardians 
  • Offer brain breaks between assessments

Classroom Considerations

  • Unit six in a series of 11 by Core Knowledge—previous units must be taught to prepare for this unit's assessments
  • Review materials to confirm what needs to be printed, copied, and collected

Pros

  • The unit scaffolds information nicely toward assessment, enrichment, and remediation
  • Offers an interdisciplinary approach combining ELA and social studies—Norse myths from Scandinavia 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.3.7 RL.3.8 RL.3.9 RL.3.10 RI.3.4 RI.3.7 RI.3.9 RF.3.3.b RF.3.3.c RF.3.3.d RF.3.4.a RF.3.4.b W.3.2.c SL.3.1.a L.3.1.a L.3.1.h L.3.1.i L.3.2.f L.3.4.b L.3.4.d L.3.5.b

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