1. Literacy Instruction: Grade 3
By Christine Bell

2. New Curriculum 21st Century Student Outcomes (P21 skills)
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New Curriculum
21st Century Student Outcomes
(P21 skills)
Common Core Standards
Digital Environment

3. New Curriculum How do we get students to persevere?
How do we get students to transfer perseverance of video games to school?
Engagement

4. New Curriculum Rigor: Not harder work or more problems! Brain sweat
Cognitively demanding
Worthy of student’s time
Takes longer to complete- more than one day
Relevant
Accessible
Responsive- based on student scores

5. New Curriculum Important Timelines:
All teachers will have laptop or IPad
All students will have laptop or IPad (1:1 instruction)
MSA~ do NOT prepare students for the MSA!
PARCC~ Learning/Baseline year
PARCC~ Scores will count/matter 

6. Understanding by Design (UbD)
3 Stages:
Desired Results~ Transfer goals, meanings, essential questions, knowledge & skill.
Evidence~ Performances and products that will reveal evidence of meaning-making and transfer.
Learning Plan~ Activities, experiences, and lessons that will lead to desired results and success.

7. Curriculum~ Grade 3 Year Round Theme~ Investigations
Unit 1 Theme~ Character Traits
Units 2-6 are being written
Each unit is 6-8 weeks long

8. Literacy Units
Each unit begins with a Diagnostic Event to form student groupings.
Broken into 2 Learning Segments.
After segment 1, give Progress Monitoring activity.
After segment 2, give Culminating Event.
Rubrics
No more Short Cycles or Benchmarks… RUMOR

9. Balanced Literacy Framework
Reading and Writing~
Modeled
Shared
Guided
Independent/self-selected

10. Daily Lessons~ Shared Learning Experience (SL)
Times differ each day.
Some SL can last more than one day.
Modeled= Begin each week with a new song/poem. Use each day.
Our choice

11. Daily Lessons~ Shared Learning Experience (SL)
Modeled= Read Aloud/Mentor text
One copy per teacher
Who is Roald Dahl?
Shared= Students read text with teacher
Enough for the entire class
James and the Giant Peach

12. Daily Lessons~ Shared Learning Experience (SL)
Guided= Small group (SG)
Students read ability-level books
Scaffolding (below)
Teacher Choice
18 copies
Enormous Crocodile
Enrichment (on)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Acceleration (above)… NO GT label
10 copies
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

13. Daily Lessons~ Shared Learning Experience (SL)
Independent=
Students complete Meaningful Independent Work on their ability level
Anchor Activities
Independent reading
Centers/stations?

14. Miscellaneous Topics Word Study= Words Their Way
If not sure how to use it, “keep doing what you’ve been doing.”
Recommended to use during SG.
MAP is still given this year but not sure about the following years.
DIBELS is optional.
Essential Questions being posted when targeted.
Weekly Learning Goals found at the top of the Weekly Planner also are posted and students should be aware of the instructional goals.

15. Miscellaneous Topics Phonics= Benchmark Phonics
Not purchased for grade 3 because according to Common Core, students should not need phonics in 3rd grade.
Can use Phonics kits because they are in building.
Recommended to use during SG.
Will be available online.
K= Start Up
1st= Build Up
2nd= Spiral Up
Pre/Post Assessments
32 Units for each grade

16. Miscellaneous Topics Phonics Can use Open Court
Don’t need to hang up Sound/Spelling cards?
Can use FCRR.org

17. Miscellaneous Topics Embedded Assessments are NOT optional.
The curriculum is a suggested guide so we can make changes.
Lexile Levels can be converted to Grade Level Equivalent and Guided Reading Levels.
WIKI space open to share materials?
After unit survey for teachers.

18. Miscellaneous Topics
Committee is in place to review/revise report cards.
What do we grade=??
Trying to get a company for electronic performance tracking.
During 1st-2nd weeks of school you can ease into small groups so you can practice rules/routines, especially for small group.

19. Miscellaneous Topics Unit 2= Non-Fiction.
Students are not expected to read James and Giant Peach independently.
Books do not go home with students.
HW= ?
Enormous Crocodile should take a week to read.
Up to 1 hour of SG time per day.
Meet with all 3 groups daily.
HM for extra resources.

20. Miscellaneous Topics Grammar is embedded in curriculum
Might need to supplement.
HM English.
Acceleration activities were created by GT office.
Anchor activities are supposed to take several days.
Anchor activities are optional.
Need Reading Response Journals.
100 Book materials can be used but not mandated by county.
Usernames/Passwords= print from EASI for each student (no more 3c, 3).