Grade 3 Unit 1
- 1. Isaac School District No.5 ELAS Thematic Unit Overview Grade 3 – Unit 1 2012-2013 Unit 1: Stories Worth Telling Again and Again DURATION: Six Weeks Students commence the school year by reading stories that are worth telling and retelling. Students read the tales of grandparents, and they become familiar with the tradition of “trickster stories” across multiple cultures. They read a Langston Hughes poem, and review the parts of speech through Ruth Heller’s World of Language books. The students engage the text in multiple ways. They write stories they want to preserve; they also build upon their knowledge of geographical settings of folktales from previous grades as they research the cultural backgrounds of the trickster tales. They dramatically interpret a poem by Langston Hughes. Essential Questions: Vocabulary: author noun Why do we hand stories down to the next character motivation problem generation? character traits pronoun collective noun revising How do we choose which stories to editing shared research preserve? the fool solution generational stories the trickster Essential Learning: illustrator trickster tales internet search verb Students understand that some stories are narrative writing verb tense timeless because they tell of values and morals that are relevant to all people. Distributed Resources Aligned to Unit 1: More Stories Julian Tells (Cameron & Strugnell) Through Grandpa’s Eyes (Maclachlan & Ray) Sign of the Beaver (Speare) Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Noun (Heller) Mine, All Mine: Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs (Heller) A Book About Pronouns (Heller) Underlined vocabulary indicates Tier II word. 1