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Third Grade Skills Unit 7: What’s in Our Universe? Unit PlanThird Grade Skills Unit 7: What’s in Our Universe? Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
3rd
Subjects
Science
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Duration
28 days
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Third Grade Skills Unit 7: What’s in Our Universe?

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This Third Grade Skills Unit 7: What’s in Our Universe? unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What’s in Our Universe? (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 7 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 7 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 7 (.pdf)
  • Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 7 (.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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Over four weeks, third graders participate in lessons that boost spelling, grammar, reading, and writing skills. Scholars explore spelling patterns, suffixes, singular and plural possessive nouns, quotations, and conjunctions. Read-alouds take pupils through the universe. A research paper delves deep into the topic of astronomy. Lessons begin with reading, go into skills practice, and end with take-home materials.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, conjunctions, suffixes, singular nouns, possessive nouns, research reports, research writing, the writing process, the universe, the sun, the earth, the solar system, planets, stars, galaxies, constellations, astronomy, quotation marks, quotations, plural possessive words

Instructional Ideas

  • Plan extra time in the day for take-home materials to be completed
  • Display finished research reports at Open House

Classroom Considerations

  • The seventh unit in a Core Knowledge series of 11
  • Requires ample prep time to make the many copies needed and gather other materials
  • Have a projection device handy for viewing documents

Pros

  • Pausing points offer assessment opportunities
  • Time for the enrichment and remediation is embedded into the unit's timeline

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.3.4 RI.3.5 RI.3.7 RI.3.9 RI.3.10 RF.3.3.b RF.3.3.c RF.3.3.d RF.3.4.a W.3.1.a W.3.2.a W.3.4 W.3.5 W.3.6 W.3.10 SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.b SL.3.1.c SL.3.1.d L.3.1.h L.3.1.i L.3.2.c L.3.2.d L.3.2.f L.3.2.g L.3.4.b L.3.4.d L.3.5.b

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