Long range plans (ELa and Math) 2011-2012 Third grade Watkins

Week of:

Reading Workshop

writing
Set up writers notebook Class mission statement Name acrostics Writing process

Word Study
WWW procedures 1. spelling pretest 2. student names

Math
* Procedures * Benchmark * Addition and Subtraction Review/Games

Introduce Reading Workshop Choosing and returning books How we choose books Making good book choices Reading Workshop Making Connections Sharing text Abandoning books Fiction v. nonfiction Reading Workshop Characteristics of fiction Characteristics of nonfiction Reading Records

August 17-19

August 22-26

Writing process Capitalization/punctuation Fall writing prompt

a 1. short a 2. long a (a_e)

Spelling Words: name, whale, ask, replace, female, snap, fast, flame, skate, past WWW: again, because, could

Place Value Unit 1 (24 days) * Unit Activating Strategy * place value through 999,999 Place Value Unit 1 * reading and writing numbers in standard and word form * expanded form Place Value Unit 1 * comparing numbers * ordering numbers

August 29Sept. 1

Complete sentences Sentence frames Subjects/predicates Proper nouns Barebone sentences Kinds of sentences Compound sentences

i 1. short i 2. long I (i_e)

Spelling Words: thin, slide, clip, size, spill, spider, invite, forgive, swim, hike WWW: favorite, have, into

No School Sept. 5 (Labor Day)

Sept. 5-9

o 1. short o 2. long o (o_e)

Spelling Words: wrote, crop, joke, spot, broke, code, flop, clock, stove, closed WWW: off, people, said

September 12-16

Paragraphs Expanding sentences (prepositions) Commas (dates/places)

u 1. short u 2. long u (u_e)

Spelling Words: club, huge, June, hunt, chute, student, drum, computer, rule, use WWW: they, until, very

Place Value Unit 1 * ordering numbers * rounding numbers

September 19-23

Small moment Singular/plural nouns

CVCe review 1. short vowels 2. long vowels

Spelling Words: mast, wide, skin, crab, nose, slice, safe, scrape, divide, lonely WWW: want, who

Place Value Unit 1 * rounding numbers * review * Test Addition and Subtraction Unit 2 (28 days) * Unit Activating Strategy * Addition and Subtraction game rotations * properties of addition Addition and Subtraction Unit 2 * estimating * regrouping addition and subtraction

September 26-30

Small moment Expanding sentences (adverbs) Narrative transitions

final /k/ 1. ck 2. ke 3. k
Spelling Words: shake, stack, spoke, lock, click, book, quick, poke, dislike, backpack WWW: review

October 3-7

Small moment Expanding sentences (adjectives) Possessives/pronouns

long a 1. ai 2. ay 3. a_e 4. homophones

Spelling Words: state, chain, spray, tail, today, tale, behave, brace, afraid, birthday WWW: to, too, two

Teacher Work Days

October 10-14

(13-14)

Small moment Expanding sentences (when/why)

long o 1. oa 2. ow 3. o_e
Spelling Words: know, roast, choke, float, stroke, elbow, rode, close, throat, throw WWW: pretty, prettier, prettiest

Addition and Subtraction Unit 2 * regrouping 2-3 digit subtraction * subtraction across zeros Addition and Subtraction Unit 2 * subtraction across zeros * odd/even outcomes * missing numbers in equations Addition and Subtraction Unit 2 * patterns * making change * fewest possible coins

October 17-21

Special plural nouns Poetry diamante

long u 1. oo 2. ui
Spelling Words: smooth, choose, juice, balloon, bruise, moon, suit, noodle, cruise, fruit WWW: exciting, getting, laughed, was

October 24-28

Writing directions Expository transitions

long e 1. ee 2. ea
Spelling Words: sweep, clean, sleep, heat, peach, between, meal, leaf, speech, green WWW: city, community, countries, schools

October 31November 4

Writing directions Run on sentences

Addition and Subtraction Unit 2 * fewest possible coins * Review Spelling Words: next, breath, check, head, * Test sled, bread, vest, dead, deck, weather * Spiral Review
WWW: their, theyre, there

short e 1. e 2. ea 3. homophones

November 7-11

Writing directions Word choice Commas in a series

long u 1. ew 2. ue 3. prefixes/suffixes
Spelling Words: grew, cruel, fuel, blew, chew, jewel, Tuesday, true, clue, crew WWW: discover, recycle, hopeless, beautiful

Multiplication Unit 3 * introduction to multiplication * strategies for multiplication * word problems * 0s and 1s (properties) Multiplication Unit 3 * 5s and 10s * 3s and 4s * Review strategies/Quiz

Writing directions

November 14-18

long i 1. igh 2. y
Spelling Words: night, deny, tight, supply, daylight, July, flight, dry, shy, light WWW: enough, journal, lets before

Fall Break (23-25)

November 21-25

Friendly letter Commas in addresses abbreviations

Review spelling and WWW

WWW: first, went, when

Multiplication Unit 3 * 6s, 7s,

November 28December 2

book report quotation marks summarizing

-ed/-ing 1. short vowels 2. base words/endings

Spelling Words: picked, packed, tricking, stocking, jumped, hunting, flocked, hurting, selling, helped, blocked WWW: terrible, trouble, write, everybody, everything

Multiplication Unit 3 * 8s, 9s, 11s, and 12s * Review * Test

book report

December 5-9

-ed/-ing 1. long vowels 2. base words/endings

Spelling Words: baking, hiked, choking, stroked, amusing, abused, accusing, faced, cubed, noting WWW: anyone, are, hidden, our

Division Unit 4 * Math Benchmark * relationship between mult./division * strategies for division

December 12-16

book report comparative and superlative adjectives

-sh/-ch 1. plurals adding s/-es 2. contractions

Spelling Words: dishes, churches, brushes, chefs, lunches, smashes, checks, ships, branches, shops WWW: cant, dont, wont, wouldnt

Division Unit 4 * strategies for division cont.d

January 2-6

poetry free verse & cinquains

ou
Spelling Words: south, trouble, mouth, tour, hour, country, youth, count, found, group WWW: about, especially, except, friendly

Teacher Work Day (13)

verbs mini unit

January 9-13

verbs of be helping verbs

double the final consonant 1. short vowels

Spelling Words: drummer, hopped, pinned, snappy, shipped, bragging, shopped, budding, clapped, quitting WWW: what, knew, new, know

Division Unit 4 * strategies for division cont.d * Review * Test Fractions Unit 8 * Intro. to fractions * fractions (part of a whole)

MLK Day (16)

verbs mini unit cont.d

January 16-20

helping verbs irregular verbs

compound words
Spelling Words: carpool, something, flashlight, upset, snowstorm, somebody, airplane, butterfly, afternoon, supermarket WWW: no, myself, probably

Fractions Unit 8 * fractions (part of a set) * relationship to the whole * fractions (number line) Fractions Unit 8 * fractions greater than 1 * Review * Test

January 23-27

Research paper Review types of sentences Paragraphing

Prefixes/suffixes 1. prefixes (un-, re-) 2. suffixes (-ful, -ly, -er)

Spelling Words: friendly, review, unstable, remark, helpful, healthier, carefully, unfriendly, happier, careful WWW: really, then, usually

January 30February 3

Research paper Sentence variety

aw, au
Spelling Words: lawn, fault, crawl, autumn, straw, astronaut, caught, draw, Santa Claus, fawn WWW: governor, one, your, didnt

Data and Probability Unit 7 * range * ways to display data * organizing data

February 6-10

Research paper Verb review

Research paper Prepositional phrases

Presidents Day (20)

February 20-24

Research paper Adjectives/adverbs

Data and Probability Unit 7 * organizing data * interpreting data * making predictions about populations wh Data and Probability Unit Spelling Words: when, who, where, wheel, 7 whiskers, white, wheat, what, which, whine * benefits of using bar WWW: something, sometimes, graphs, tables, and dot unhappiness plots * Intro. to probability * possible outcomes * using data to make predictions ph/gu Data and Probability Unit 1. silent letters 7 Spelling Words: photo, telephone, guide, * probability as 0 or 1 graph, dolphin, guitar, tongue, alphabet, * Review guard, guest * Test
Spelling Words: acorn, story, orbit, horse, decoration, evaporate, tornado, more, sport, normal, short WWW: buy, by, general WWW: won, winner, youre, doesnt

or

February 13-17

February 27March 2

Fairy tales Quotation marks review Transitions review

ey 1. long e 2. long a
Spelling Words: valley, disobey, chimney, grey, key, honey, donkey, money, they, key WWW: another, confusion, question

Measurement Unit 5 * Unit Activating Strategy * customary/metric units of length * measuring length in cm/in Measurement Unit 5 * customary/metric units of volume * measuring volume * customary/metric units of mass Measurement Unit 5 * measuring mass * relationship between customary and metric units * referents for customary and metric units * telling time to the nearest minute

Make Up Day (9)

Fairy tales

oe
Spelling Words: echoes, foe, aloe, oboe, toe, hoe, canoe, shoe, goes, sloe WWW: Im, its, its, thats

March 5-9

Fairy tales
Teacher Work Day (12)

kn/gn 1. silent letters

Spelling Words: knowing, knife, gnats, gnawed, knowledge, gnu, knots, gnome, kneel, knuckle WWW: threw, through, vacation

March 12-16

March 19-23

Poetry haiku & tanka couplets

ough
Spelling Words: though, enough, rough, cough, through, thought, drought, bought, brought, dough WWW: were, wear, where, with, were

persuasive essay compound sentences

March 26-30

wr 1. silent letters 2. a vs. an

Spelling Words: write, wreck, wrong, wrestle, wrist, wrinkle, wrap, wreath, wrench, written WWW: almost, always, also

Measurement Unit 5 * telling time to the nearest minute * Review * Test * Spiral Review Geometry Unit 6 * Unit Activating Strategy * attributes of circles * classifying polygons

Make up day (9)

April 9-13

persuasive essay pronoun review show v. tell

dge
Spelling Words: bridge, fudge, gadget, ledge, budget, dodge, nudge, hedge, pledge, wedge WWW: impossible, independent, lovable

Geometry Unit 6 * classifying triangles * combining and subdividing shapes Geometry Unit 6 * transformations * Review * Test Extending Multiplication Unit 9 * multiplying numbers by single and double digit factors * multiplying numbers by 10

April 16-20

persuasive essay a v. an

ink
Spelling Words: blink, think, rink, drink, shrink, pink, stink, wink, link, ink WWW: whether, weather, thought

persuasive essay

ti, si, ci
Spelling Words: nation, session, vision, facial, section, action, lotion, social, special, official WWW: whole, hole, right

April 23-27

April 30May 4

Pass review
Cursive cadg htp elf

elf 1. changing f to v (plurals) 2. pronouns

Spelling Words: elf, elves, self, myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, themselves, shelf, shelves WWW: Review

PASS REVIEW

May 7-11

PASS TESTING

None due to PASS

PASS TESTING

May 14-18

Cursive uyij krs owbv

est 1. adjectives 2. short vowels

Spelling Words: best, west, test, chest, quest, protest, western, suggest, invest, pest WWW: Review

* Math Benchmark * Review weaknesses from MAP/Benchmark test data

May 21-25

Cursive mn xzq

eigh
Spelling Words: eight, neighbor, height, weigh, freight, sleigh, neigh, eighteen, eighty, neighborhood WWW: Review

* Review weaknesses from MAP/Benchmark test data

Memorial Day (28)

May 28June 1

ABcs of third grade memory book

NONE Review Week * Candy lessons Administer final WWW spelling test and compare from the first week of school.