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Communities

Unit Overview

COMMUNITIES

  3rd grade
  8 lessons
  Students explore the concept of communities. Similarities and differences between types of communities are explored.
  Decoding strategies, developing vocabulary through text, developing and completing a graphic organizer, using context clues, inferring, comprehension strategies, identifying intended messages conveyed through media
  This unit consists of eight lessons. Students focus on the use of decoding strategies, developing vocabulary through text, developing and completing a graphic organizer, using context clues, inferring, developing and utilizing comprehension strategies during reading, and identifying the intended messages conveyed through media.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

  KWL/Vocabulary Dictionary Drill Word HTML (with links to documents)
Community Ripple Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Strategies to Infer Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Anticipation Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Visualizing Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Cloudy with a chance of meatballs - Part I Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Cloudy with a chance of meatballs - Part II Word HTML (with links to documents)
  What's the Weather Forecast? Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

What is a community?
What strategies can be used to figure out unknown words?
What are the different types of communities and what are their characteristics?
How do good readers make inferences?
How can I tell where information from the text belongs in a graphic organizer?
How do good readers visualize while reading?
How can we decode words by identifying affixes?
How can we identify the intended message conveyed in media?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

Summative Assessment  Summative Assessment Answer Key
   
 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

Students must be able to develop and apply decoding strategies to problem-solve regularly spelled one-or-two-syllable words when reading.

 

R1C    Students must be able to develop and apply decoding strategies to problem-solve regularly spelled one-or two-syllable words when reading.

 

Students must be able to apply decoding strategies to problem-solve unknown words when reading.

 

Students must be able to develop vocabulary by listening to and discussing unknown words in stories. Develop vocabulary through text using base words and classroom resources

R1E   Develop vocabulary through text, using base words, synonyms and antonyms, context clues, and a glossary and dictionary.

Students must be able to develop vocabulary through text using base words, synonyms and antonyms, context clues, glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus.

 

Students must be able, during reading, to develop and utilize strategies to self-question and correct, infer, predict and check using cueing systems (meaning, structure, visual)

 

R1G    Students must be able, during reading, to develop and utilize strategies to self-question and correct, infer, predict and check using cueing systems (meaning, structure, visual).

Students must be able, during reading to develop and utilize strategies to self-question and correct, infer, predict and check using cueing systems (meaning, structure, visual).

 

Students must be able to identify, with assistance, topics of messages and simple messages conveyed through oral and visual media

W3B    Complete a graphic organizer to identify important information from text.

Students must be able to use a note-taking system to organize information from written text and oral presentations

Student must be able to identify, with assistance, topics of messages and simple messages conveyed through oral and visual media

IL2       Identify intended messages conveyed through oral and visual.

Students must be able to identify and explain intended messages conveyed through oral and visual media

 


Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Division of School Improvement - Curriculum Services
Email: webreplyimprcurr@dese.mo.gov
Phone: 573-751-2625

Revised: July 20, 2006

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