Common Core Curriculum Grade 3 (Module 1): Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn - My Librarian Is a Camel: Bringing Books to Children around the World

This module uses literature and informational text such as "My Librarian Is a Camel" to introduce students to the power of literacy and how people around the world access books. This module is intentionally designed to encourage students to embrace a love of literacy and reading. There are 3 units in this module. Unit 1 explores the question ĺづWhy do people seek the power of reading?ĺăĺ In unit 2 students explore their own ĺづpowers of readingĺăĺ that help them access text. And unit 3 explores how geography impacts readersĺăĚă access to books.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

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Author: Journal Buddies Jill

Plot Diagram

The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive

Diamante Poems

This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive

6th Grade VI History Month Activity

This is an example of how teachers on a grade level can collaborate to create a Grade Level VI History Month Activity.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Dahlia Knowles

Everything CCSS "I Can" for K-8

A site where busy teachers can go to find current, relevant, meaningful and ready-to-go lessons, activities and resources that fit their classroom structure and meet national and state standards.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Cathy Henry, Jill McEldowney

Super Flip

Learn how to write an expository essay with opinion, reason and evidence while creating your very own comic strip! With superhero Captain Opinion and her sidekicks, Reason and Evidence, the viewer goes on a fun adventure into the world of opinions and the importance of supporting them with lots of reasons and evidence. Learning Objective: Have students write an expository essay that establishes a central idea in a topic sentence; includes supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and contains a concluding statement.

Material Type: Lesson

Forces of Gravity and Air Resistance

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect the motion of falling objects.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of Water

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Nutrition: What Your Body Needs

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Snake Jaws: Connecting Structure and Function

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how animals' physical characteristics, such as jaw structure, are directly related to the function they perform when the animal interacts with its environment.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Reproduction: One Goal, Two Methods

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the two basic forms of reproduction for the living things that practice them.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Florida's Everglades: The River of Grass

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Using the 3Rs to Help the Environment

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Surviving Winter

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Energy Transfer in a Roller Coaster

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

The Facts About Concussions

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Newton's Third Law: Action–Reaction

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Solving a Public Health Problem

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Walmart Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation