Journeys Reading Program
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Student eBook Volume 1
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Journeys Grammar Snap Videos 3rd Grade
Unit 1 Lesson 1 - A Fine, Fine School
Genre: Humorous Fiction
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy:Summarze
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy:
Unit 1 Lesson 2 - The Trial of Cardigan Jones
Genre: Humorous fiction
Target Skill: Drawing Conclusions
Target Strategy: Infer / Predict
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Compound Words
*Review: these, those
*Challenge: surprise, decide
Read Alouds
"Sequoyah"
Guided Reading Books
Grammar
Unit 1 Lesson 3 - Destiny's Gift
- Unit 1 Lesson 4 - Pop's Bridge
Genre: Historical fiction
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Infer / Predict
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategies: Base Words
*Review:cold, most
*Challenge: tomorrow, sailboats
Grammar
Common and Proper Nouns
Social Studies Connection
- landmark
- Google Earth images of Golden Gate Bridge
- Download Google Earth
- Bixby Bridge - Big Sur
Science Connection
beam bridge
- Unit 1 Lesson 5 - Roberto Clemente,
Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Grammar
Social Studies Connection
Science Connection
Read Alouds
The Tennessee Tornado (Wilma Rudolph)
Guided Reading Books
Unit 2 Lesson 6 - Max's Words
Read Alouds
The Storytelling Stone
Connection to Poetry: Poems that Slither, Walk, and Fly
Guided Reading Books
Unit 2 Lesson 7 - What Do Illustrators Do?
Read Alouds
Louis Braille: Boy Inventor
Jack Draws a Beanstalk
Guided Reading Books
Unit 2 Lesson 8 - The Harvest Birds
Genre: Folktale
Target Skill: Conclusions
Target Strategy: Infer / Predict
Essential Question: How can readers figure out the message in a story?
Big Idea: We communicate in many ways.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Multiple Meaning Words
Read Alouds
Sweet Berries
The Farmer and the Dream
Guided Reading Books
Science Connection
zanate birds
harvest
- Unit 2 Lesson 9 - Kamisihibai Man
- Read the Story
- Written and Illustrated by Allen Say
- Spelling Words and Phonics Activities for the Week
- Genre: Realistic Fiction
- Target Skill: Cause and Effect
- Target Strategy: Monitor / Clarify
- Essential Question: How can a new invention
- cause people's lives to change?
- Big Idea: We communicate in many ways.
- Spelling and Vocabulary Games
- Vocabulary Strategy: Dictionary /
- Glossary Entry
- Vocabulary Cards
- Spelling Cards
- Vowel dipthongs ow, ou
- Social Studies Connection
- history of Kamishibai
- Read Alouds
- The Magic Art of Mime
- The True Story of Kamishibai
- Guided Reading Books
- Before theTalkies
- Tall Tale Tuesday
- The Kabuki Kid
- Manny's Story
- Unit 2 Lesson 10 - Young Thomas Edison
Unit 3 Lesson 11 - Jump
Genre: Biography
Target Skill: Fact and Opinion
Target Strategy: Question
Essential Question: How can you tell what an author thinks about a topic?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes -y, -ful, -ous
Science Connection
Michael Jordan Dunks
Unit 3 Lesson 12 - The Science Fair
Written by:Susan Wojcechowski
Illustrated by: Susanna Natti
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy: Visualize
Essential Question: How do characters
affect a plot of a story?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Grammar
Homophones
Unit 3 Lesson 13 - Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend
Genre: Legend
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate
Essential Question: How might people change after facing a challenge?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones / Homographs
- Sequoyah
- Trail of Tears
- Legends
Unit 3 Lesson 14 - Aero and Officer Mike
Genre: Informational text
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Summarize
Essential Question: Why do authors write different kinds of texts?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.
Social Studies Connection
Unit 3 Lesson 15 - The Extra-Good Sunday
Written by: Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by: Tracy Dockray
Genre: Humorous fiction
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy: Infer / Predict
Essential Question: What clues in a story help you understand its characters?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Using a Thesaurus
Read Alouds
Guided Reading Books
Unit 4 Lesson 16 - A Mr. Rubbish Mood
Genre: Humorous fiction
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Monitor/Clarify
Essential Question: Why do some authors
write funny stories?
Big Idea: Our world is an amazing place!
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
*Review: buy, year
*Challenge: earring, compare
Grammar
Adjectives and Adverbs
Read Alouds
Science Connection
- recycling
- rainforest
Social Studies Connection
Unit 4 Lesson 17 - The Albertosaurus Mystery
Genre: Informational Text
Target Skill: Conclusions
Target Strategy: Visualize
Essential Question: How can you
figure out ideas the author
doesn't state directly?
Big Idea: Our world is an amazing place!
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffix -ly
*Review: nice, place
*Challenge: excited, gigantic
Grammar
Adjectives and Articles
Read Alouds
Guided Reading Books
Science Connection
- Fossil Butte Natonal Monument
- Thermopolis, WYOMING
Unit 4 Lesson 18 - A Tree is Growing
Genre: Informational Text
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Target Strategy: Question
Essential Question: How can pictures and
labels give you more information?
Big Idea: Our world is an amazing place!
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Categorize and Classify
*Review: black, thank
*Challenge: correct, question
Grammar
Using the Verb Be and Helping Verbs
Science Connection
- trees
Unit 4 Lesson 19 - Dogzilla
Genre: Humorous fiction
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Summarize
Essential Question: How can one event lead to a series of adventures?
Big Idea: Our world is an amazing place!
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes pre-, re-, bi-
*Review: blew, foot
*Challenge: loose, jewel
Grammar
Social Studies Connection
Habitats
Unit 4 Lesson 20 - Life on the Ice
Written by: Susan E. Goodman
Illustrated by: Michael J. Doolittle
Genre: Informational Text
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
Target Strategy: Infer / Predict
Essential Question: Where are main ideas often found in non-fiction text?
Big Idea: Our world is an amazing place.
*Review: someone, cannot
*Challenge: scorekeeper, everybody
Grammar
Social Studies Connection
Read Alouds
The Raven: An Inuit Myth
Science Connection
- global warming
- Arctic
- Antarctic
Unit 5 Lesson 21 - Two Bad Ants
*Review making, stopped
*Challenge: freezing, scared
Genre: fantasy
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy: Monitor / Clarify
Essential Question: What might the problem be in a story about ants?
Big Idea: There are many reasons to
take a journey.
Vocabulary Strategy: Base Words
Unit 5 Lesson 22 - The Journey:
Stories of Migration
Genre: informational text
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Visualize
Essential Question: How are different animals' lives
alike and different?
Big Idea: There are many reasons to take a journey.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes in-, im-
Social Studies Connection
Fables
Unit 5 Lesson 23 - The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman
Genre: fantasy
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate
Essential Question: What happens if you tell story events out of order?
Big Idea: There are many reasons to take a journey.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Dictionary skills
Social Studies Connection
Write a friendly letter
Unit 5 Lesson 24 - Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves
Genre: realistic fiction
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Question
Essential Question: Why might a writer tell a
story about a faraway place?
Big Idea: There are many reasons to take a journey.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Dictionary
Vocabulary
Unit 5 Lesson 25 - Mountains:
Surviving Mt. Everest
Genre: informational text
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Target Strategy: Infer / Predict
Essential Question: How are headings, maps,
and diagrams helpful to readers?
Big Idea: There are many reasons to take a journey.
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Analogies
Vocabulary
Unit 6 Lesson 26
Long Article:
Spelling Words and
Phonics Activities for the Week
(narrative nonfiction)
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate
Essential Question: How can you figure out the main ideas in a text?
Big Idea: To reach a goal takes hard work.
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffix - ion
Vocabulary Cards
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Analogies
Grammar
Writing Quotations
Unit 6 Lesson 27
Long Article:
Essential Question: How can an invention cause peoples' lives to change?
Big Idea: To reach a goal takes hard work
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Summarize
Spelling Words and
Phonics Activities for the Week
Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs/Homophones
Vocabulary Cards
Short Article: Electromagnets and You
Poetry: Science- hover car / Magnet
Unit 6 Lesson 28
Long Article:
Becoming ANYTHING He Wants to Be
Erik Weihenmayer-Blind Climber
Spelling Words and
Phonics Activities for the Week
Target Skill: Fact and Opionion
Target Strategy: Visualize
Essential Question: How do facts help shape our opinions of people
Big Idea: To reach a goal takes hard work
*Review: was, draw
*Challenge: sought, naughty
Grammar
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary Strategy: Word Roots
Vocabulary
Unit 6 Lesson 29
Long Article: A New Team of Heros
US Youth Soccer - ODP
Spelling Words and
Phonics Activities for the Week
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy:
*Review: flower, people
*Challenge: whistle, character
Grammar
Monitor/Clarify
Essential Question:
How do facts help shape our opinions of people
Big Idea: To reach a goal takes hard work
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Social Studies Connection
Short article: C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N
Unit 6 Lesson 30
Long Article: Saving Buster
Target Skill: Conclusions/Generalizations
Target Strategy: Question
Spelling Words and
Phonics Activities for the Week
Essential Question: What helps you make decisions about a character?
Big Idea: To reach a goal takes hard work.
*Review: away, want
*Challenge: awhile, beyond
Grammar
Correct Pronouns
Social Studies Connection
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