In this unit, students will build stamina and the routine of writing by drafting and creating personal narratives. Students will also build their writing skills by creating their own imagined stories and responding to and continuing stories written by others. Students will include introductions, dialogue, transition words, sensory details, and closings in their writing pieces.
A. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; clearly organize an event sequence.
B. Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
C. Use transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
D. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events.
E. Provide a conclusion or sense of closure that follows the narrated experiences or events.
W.WP.3.4. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
A. Identify audience, purpose, and intended length of composition before writing.
B. Consider writing as a process, including self-evaluation, revision and editing.
C. With adult and peer feedback, and digital or print tools such as a dictionary, thesaurus, and/or spell checker, find and correct errors and improve word choice.
SL.PE.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
A. Explicitly draw on previously read text or material and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
B. Follow agreed-upon norms for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
C. Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
D. Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
SL.UM.3.5. Use multimedia to demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
L.WF.3.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of encoding and spelling.
L.WF.3.3. Demonstrate command of the conventions of writing including those listed under grade two foundational skills.
L.KL.3.1. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.