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English Language Arts — Grade 3
Goal 2, Objective 2.08
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Beans and how they grow
- The students will incorporate computer skills, math, and literature with books such as: Miss Rumphius and The Reason for a Flower.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
- By Betty Black.
- Cause and effect
- Students will identify and interpret cause and effect as expressed in poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Rochelle Mullis.
- "Kid-Created" Biographies
- In this lesson plan, the students will create biographies on the people they know best-- their teachers! The students will use various skills to collect information, organize details, publish the biographies and present the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Gregg Farr, Lynn Beatty, and Tricia Freeze.
- Positively Poetry: Part 6
- Students will be learning about and writing limericks. Since limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern and word count, the students will work in partners to create their own limericks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Maribeth Warren, Pam Purifoy, and Tracy Dagenhart.
- Visualizations: Black poet, Langston Hughes
- Third grade or fourth grade students will have an opportunity to read and appreciate selected poetry of the African-American poet, Langston Hughes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- By Floanna Long.
Lesson plans on the web
- 3, 2, 1...Blast off! Vocabulary instruction using a virtual trip to the moon
- Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts and Science)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Book clubs: Reading for fun
- In this lesson, small groups of students create, organize, and run book clubs in order to promote reading for fun. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Bridging literature and mathematics by visualizing mathematical concepts
- Math-related, informational books, Actual Size and If You Hopped Like a Frog provide the focus for this lesson, which connects reading, writing, math, and science. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using comic books to teach onomatopoeia
- This lesson uses comic strips to introduce students to onomatopoeia, words that imitate the natural sound associated with an action or an object. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Choosing clear and varied dialogue tags: A mini-lesson
- Students explore the use of dialogue tags such as “he said” or “she answered” in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Composing cinquain poems with basic parts of speech
- Students learn to compose original cinquain poems in this lesson that follows a unit on parts of speech. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- The connection between poetry and music
- In this lesson, students listen to poems read aloud and discuss the rhythm and sound of poetry. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Creating family timelines: Graphing family memories and significant events
- Students explore family memories, interview family members, and create a timeline of important events in their lives. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Daily book boost
- Each day at the end of their independent reading time, students give “book boosts,” one-minute raves about books they’ve read. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dancing minds and shouting smiles: Teaching personification through poetry
- In this lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dear Librarian: Writing a persuasive letter
- Inspired by the actions in Beverly Cleary’s book Emily’s Runaway Imagination, in this lesson plan, students write to their school librarian, requesting that a specific text be added to the library collection. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Developing inferential comprehension through DL-TA and discussion webs
- Uses the narrative text Granddaddy's Gift by Margaree King Mitchell to help students improve their inferential comprehension, prediction, and discussion skills. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Developing students' critical thinking skills through whole-class dialogue
- After reading a story, students answer an open-ended question about an issue that could have multiple perspectives. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dr. King's dream
- Students learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. through photographs, speeches, and a brief biography. They create picture books about their own dreams of freedom for Americans today. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies)
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Figurative language awards ceremony
- Students use their background knowledge of figurative language to explore texts to find their favorite examples of similes, metaphors, and personification. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE