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Third Grade Skills Unit 9: The Age of Exploration Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 9: The Age of Exploration Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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3rd
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English Language Arts
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Duration
21 days
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

Third Grade Skills Unit 9: The Age of Exploration

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  • CKLA Unit 9: Third Grade Skills—The Age of Exploration (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 9 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 9 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 9 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 9 (.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 Age of Exploration is the theme of a unit designed to boost third-grade ELA skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, examine words with prefixes and suffixes, build sentences with linking words, and use comparative and superlative adjectives. Read-alouds center the theme and bring context to skills work.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, linking words, prefixes, writing sentences, sentences, suffixes, adjectives, comparative adjectives, superlative adjectives, explorers

Instructional Ideas

  • Plan social studies lessons about explorers to add to the interdisciplinary approach
  • Keep applicable papers in interactive journals 
  • Update focus walls to reflect the new units' concepts

Classroom Considerations

  • The ninth unit in a series of 11 by Core Knowledge created for third graders
  • Browse the "Lesson at a Glance" sections to view what materials are needed

Pros

  • Provides assessments to gauge proficiency
  • Includes time for remediation and extension

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.3.4 RI.3.7 RI.3.10 RF.3.3.a RF.3.3.b RF.3.3.c RF.3.3.d RF.3.4.a W.3.1.c W.3.2.b W.3.2.c SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.d L.3.1.a L.3.1.g L.3.1.i L.3.2.f L.3.4.b L.3.4.d L.3.5.b

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