TCSD Pacing Guide September-January-3rd Grade
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Skills (Fundations, Spelling) |
Orientation Key Concept - Review of Blends and Digraphs
Unit 1 - Week 1 Key Concept - Closed syllables concept; ck and tch
Unit 1 - Week 2 Key Concept - Glued sounds and exceptions to closed syllables
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Unit 2 - Week 1 Key Concepts: Plurals and suffixes
Unit 2 - Weel 2 Key Concepts: 111 Rule and the spellings of 'ed' sounds
Unit 2 - Week 3 Key Concept: 111 Rule
Unit 3 - Week 1 Key Concept: Vowel consonant e syllable, multi syllabic words
Unit 4 - Week 1 Key Concept: Review vowel consonant e exception |
Unit 4 - Week 2 Key Concept: Review spelling rules
Unit 11 - Week 1 Key Concept: Teaching the contractions for 'not' and 'is'
Unit 11 - Week 2 Key Concept: Contractions for are, would, have, had and will
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Unit 5 - Week 1 - Key Concepts: Teaching schwa
Unit 5 - Week 2 Key Concepts: Teaching 'et' spelling at the end of the word
Unit 6 - Week 1 Key Concepts: Open syllables and y as a vowel, soft 'c' and soft 'g'
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Unit 6 - Week 2 Key Concepts: Schwa in an open syllable, and open syllable exceptions
Unit 6 - Week 3 Key Concepts: Teach schwa with an open syllable with an 'i'
Unit 7 - Week 1 Key Concept: Teach y and suffix spelling rule
Unit 7 Week 2 Key Concept: Pluralizing words ending in y
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Literacy Learning (Domains/Modules) |
ELA - Module 1 - Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn Unit 1 - Seeking the Power of Reading 2 Weeks Mid Unit 1 Assessment - Collaborative Discussion Skills
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ELA Module 1 - Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn Unit 2 - Building the Power of Reading - 3 - 4 Weeks
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Module 1 - Becoming A Close Reader and Writing to Learn Unit 3 - Librarians Around the World - 5 - 8 Weeks Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Librarians Around the World: Answering Text-Dependent Questions End of Unit 3 Assessment: Assessing Books Around the World: On-Demand Informative Paragraph About a New Country |
Module 1 - Becoming A Close Reader and Writing to Learn Unit 3 - Librarians Around the World 5 -8 Weeks Mid-Unit 3 Assessment Librarians Around the World: Answering Text-Dependent Questions End of Unit 3 Assessment: Assessing Books Around the World: On-Demand Informative Paragraph About a New Country
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Module 2 - Researching to Build Knowledge and Teach Others Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Learning About Culture Through Literacy and Inofmrational Texts - 3 Weeks Mid Unit 1 Assessment: Reading for Key Details Recording Form: Chapter 6 of Dragon of the Red Dawn End of Unit 1 Assessment: On-Demand Writing of a Researched-Based Informational Paragraph
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Writing |
Memoir - Personal Narrative Writing
Beginning of the Year Writing Benchmark |
Persuasive Paragraph
New York State Module - Nasreen's Secret School
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Module 1 - Unit 3 - Informative Paragraph About a New Country Persuasive Paragraph -
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Module 1 - Unit 3 Informative Paragraph About a New Country Persuasive Paragraph
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Module 2B - Writing an Informative Paragraph
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Vocabulary |
Lesson 1 - Week 1
Lesson 2 - Week 2
Lesson 3 Week 3
Week 4 - Cumulative Review - Lesson 1, 2, 3
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Lesson 4 Week 5
Lesson 5 Week 6
Lesson 6 Week 7
Week 8 - Cumulative Review of Lessons 4, 5, 6
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Lesson 7 - Week 9
Lesson 8 - Week 10
Lesson 9 - Week 11
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Week 12 - Cumulative Review Lessons 7, 8, 9
Lesson 10 - Week 13
Lesson 11 - Week 14
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Lesson 12 - Week 15
Week 16 - Cumulative Review - Lessons 10, 11, 12
Week 17 - Lesson 13
Week 18 - Lesson 14
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Grammar |
Commn Core Module 1 Language Standards: L.3.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spellling when writing
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies L.3.6. Acquire and use accurate and grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases
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Common Core Module 1 Language Standards: L.3.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies L.3.6. Acquire and use accurate and grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases |
Common Core Module 1 Language Standards: L.3.2. Demonstate command of the conventions of standard English capitalizations, punctuation, and spelling when writing
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies L.3.6. Acquire and use accurate and grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases |
Common Core Module 1 Language Standards: L.3.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalizations, punctuation, and spelling when writing
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies L.3.6. Acquire and use accurate and grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases |
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion). d. Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrase L.3.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. a. Choose words and phrases for effect. b. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English L.3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. b. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns. c. Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood). d. Form and use regular and irregular verbs. e. Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses. f. Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.* g. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified. h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
L.3.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Capitalize appropriate words in titles. b. Use commas in addresses. c. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue. d. Form and use possessives. e. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness). f. Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position- based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words. g. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
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Science |
Measuring Matter Administer beginning of the year Assessment- 2 Days
Investigation 1 - The First Straw Part 1 - Measurement Reasoning - 3 Days
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Continue Investigation 1 - The First Straw
Part 2 - The Standard Unit 3 Days Part 3 - Estimate and Measure 2 Days
Part 4 - Measure Around 3 Days |
Investigation 2 - Facts of Matter Part 1 - States of Matter 2 Days Part 2 - A Matter of Volume 3 Days |
Continue Investigation 2 - Fact of Matter
Part 3 - Weighty Matters 3 Days Part 4 - Soaking Sponges 2 Days
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Investigation 3 - Changing Matter Part 1 - Measuring Temperature 2 Days Part 2 - Melting and Freezing 4 Days Part 3 - Evaporation and Condensation 3 Days |
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Social Studies |
3.1 Geographic regions have unifying characteristics and can be studied using a variety of tools. 3.2 The location of world communties can be desribed using geographic tools and vocabulary. 3.3 Geographic factors often influence where people settle and form communities. People adapt to and modify their enviroment in different ways to meet their needs. 3.7 Governments in communities and countries around the world have the authority to make and the power to enforce laws. The role of the citizen within these communities or countries varies across different types of governments.
3.8 The concept of universal rights suggests that all people should be treated failry and should have the opportunity to meet their basic needs.
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3.3 Geographic factors often influence where people settle and form communities. People adapt to and modify their enviroment in different ways to meet their needs. |
3.3 Geographic factors often influence where people settle and form communities. People adapt to and modify their enviroment in different ways to meet their needs. |
3.3 Geographic factors often influence where people settle and form communities. People adapt to and modify their environment in different ways to meet their needs. |
3.4 Each community or culture has a unique history, including heric figures, traditions, and holidays. 3.5 Communities share cultural similarities and differences across the world. 3.6 Communiites from around the world interact with other people and communities and exchange cultural ideas and practices. 3.7 Governments in communities and countries around the world have the authority to make and the power to enforce laws. The role of the citizen within these communities or countries varies across different types of governments. 3.9 Communites meet their needs and wants in a variety of ways, forming the basis for their economy. 3.10 Each community develops an economic system that addresses three questions: what will be produced, how will it be produced and who will get what is produced? |
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Mathematics |
Placement Assessment - 1 Day Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten Topic 1: Numeration 9 Days Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten Topic 2: Number Sense: Addition and Subtraction 10 Days Fall Regional Local Math Benchmark - 3 Days
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Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten Topic 3 -Using Place Value to Add and Subtract - 11 Days Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Topic 4 - Meanings of Multiplication - 6 Days Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Topic 5 - Multiplication Facts: Use Patterns - 8 Days
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Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Topic 6 - Multiplication Facts: Use Known Facts - 10 Days Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Topic 7 - Meanings of Division - 7 Days |
Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Topic 8 - Division Facts - 10 Days Review |
Domain: Numbers and Operations - Fractions Topic 9: Understanding Fractions 9 Days Domain: Numbers and Operations - Fractions Topic 10: Fraction Comparison and Equivalence 10 Days
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Mentor Texts |
The Summer My Father Was Ten Night of the Moonjellies Memory String Rain School Nasreen's Secret School That Book Woman The Librarian of Basra
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Thank You Mr. Falker The Boy Who Loved Words The Incredible Book Eating Boy Should There Be Zoos
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That Book Woman My Librarian is a Camel Waiting for Biblioburro
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That Book Woman My Librarian is a Camel Waiting for Biblioburro |
Magic Tree House #37 Dragon of the Red Dawn Exploring Countries: Japan Article: Discovering Culture |
