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Third Grade Skills Unit 8: Native American Storiess Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 8: Native American Storiess Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Duration
14 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Third Grade Skills Unit 8: Native American Storiess

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This Third Grade Skills Unit 8: Native American Storiess unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 8: Third Grade Skills—Native American Stories (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 8 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 8 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 8 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 8 (.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 interdisciplinary unit focuses on third-grade ELA skills and Native American stories. Over two weeks, scholars practice spelling patterns, work with plural possessive nouns and suffixes, and identify between its and it's. Readings share stories about Native Americans.

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Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, plural possessive words, possessive nouns, suffixes, plural nouns, its and it's, read-alouds, native americans, native american culture, native american history

Instructional Ideas

  • Plan the day when ELA and social studies combine to work with the unit's interdisciplinary approach
  • Check out additional Native American stories from the school library 

Classroom Considerations

  • The eighth unit in a Core Knowledge series of 11
  • Browse each lesson and confirm which materials are needed

Pros

  • Lessons' At a Glance section provides information to plan each lesson easily
  • Offers assessments to plan extension and remediation opportunities 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.3 RL.3.7 RL.3.10 RI.3.2 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 W.3.1.a W.3.2.a W.3.4 W.3.5 W.3.6 W.3.10 SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.d SL.3.4 L.3.1.a L.3.2.d L.3.2.f L.3.4.b L.3.4.d L.3.5.b

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