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GTYPS Grade 3 2024/2025 Instructional Overview

Semester 1 (16 Weeks) – Narrative Fiction Focus


(Fiction)

Class breakdown – 8 classes per week


2 Word Study (1 word-level mapping, 1 fluency)
1 UA – Word Study small groups/reading RTI
2 Reading/Writing
2 Use of English (Vocabulary, ties to reading and writing,
can have elements of science)
1 UA – Work catch-up/golden time/ect.

Reading objectives:
Review: Students have a deeper understanding and can
identify Story Elements plus more vocabulary in how to
report it. (plot/take place – look at RAZ language)
Students can sequence longer stories, can orally sequence
and via written work sequence a story. (beginning, middle,
end)
New: Students know very clearly the language of problem
and solution, can identify it in texts
Students know very clearly the language of lessons/morals in
a story, and can identify them in stories
Students have the basic language orally and written to
summarize a 3rd person narrative (tied to sequence)
Summative: Reading test? Rubric?

Writing objectives
Review: Students have a clear idea of proper sentence
grammar (uppercase, finger spaces, punctuation)
Students understand clearly the 6 writing steps and why they
are important.
New: Students will be able to develop and hone skills on
how to creatively build a story.
Students will learn what dialogue is and how to use it.
Students will be able to write a high-quality 3rd person
narratives. High quality means with a problem and solution,
Beginning/Middle/End, characters, setting, plot(events),
some dialogue, and elements of descriptive language.
Students learn how to story map (story board) and peer
review.
Students learn how to and the benefits of kind and
thoughtful feedback (TAGS?)
Students will share their stories and writings with others.
Summative: Grade final story writing with comprehensive
rubric – include for effort and attitude

Word Study objectives:


Review: short and long vowels, r-control, magic-e, vowel
teams, word mapping
New:
Review alphabet and vowel sounds/Introduction to 44
phonemes
Hard and soft sounds (c/g)
Long and short /oo/
Syllables (introduction using previously learned word study
words)
Oral and reading fluency skills
Summative: Final Word Study Dictation and fluency
assessment, Average of weekly dictations and classdojo
videos

Use of English objectives:


Review: Students will know/memorize the rules for regular
past tense verb conjugation and common irregular past
tense verbs
Students review and can identify parts of speech – nouns,
verbs, adjectives
Plural review (-s, is/are, was/were)
New: Students will build their adjective vocabulary and be
able to modify sentences to make them more descriptive.
Maybe – Introduction to similes?
Maybe – Some science/history related to narrative fiction?
Look at some of the oldest stories, their history, ect? Can
have cultural connection – looking at some Chinese stories
but through an English lens

Summative: Test?

UA objectives:
Students will be split into small groups based on data from
Diebels assessment and STAR reading focusing on lacking
phonics and reading skills.
Focus skills: fluency, decoding, encoding, phonemic
manipulation, close reading and reading comprehension
strategies. (Kristine will prepare and purchase many
materials of a “grab and go” sort.)
Generally good rules of thumb:
Switch up the groups as much as possible (don’t let students
think they are the “bad” group or “good” group.) -- Focus
on needed skills not overall level.
Small group lessons – 7-15 minutes MAX
Must have a formative assessment/exit ticket.
Meet with every student in small group at least once every 2
weeks. (thoughts?)
Semester 2 (14 Weeks) – Information
Report/Explanation Writing Focus (Non-Fiction)
Class breakdown – 8 classes per week
2 Word Study (1 word-level mapping, 1 fluency)
1 UA – Word Study small groups/reading RTI
1 Reading/Writing
1 Use of English (Maybe change to science if we give them
in-class time to make their dioramas/present)
2 Science
1 UA – Work catch-up/golden time/ect.

Science objectives:
Review: Students will review basic animal vocabulary.
Students will review habitat vocabulary and gain a deeper
understanding of habitats. (biomes?)
Students will review life cycles of basic animals and use
sequencing language to describe it.
New: Students will learn the vocabulary of the 6 main animal
groups (mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians, birds,
invertebrates) and can sort them.
Maybe – nocturnal and diurnal?
Students will gain a basic understanding of the food chain
and will understand and learn about the diets of different
types of animals - vocabulary
Summative: Diorama with video/or presentation

Reading objectives:
Review: What is Fiction/Non-Fiction, sort
Main Idea/Details with nonfiction texts (Extracting key
information from informational texts)
New: Identify and understand non-fiction text features
(headings, table of contents, subheadings, diagrams, ect)
Fact and opinion (Interesting facts for animal reports)
Understand how to summarize non-fiction texts (main idea),
understand how it is different from narratives (fiction), learn
summarizing skills

Writing objectives:
Review: Proper grammar, writing cycle
New:
Students will be exposed to and understand the differences
of fictional and nonfiction writing, and know what function
each has.
Students will be able to write a high-quality informational
report. High quality means with elements of nonfiction text,
what animal category it is, what is its habitat and diet, and
includes an element of explanation describing how their
animal gets its food. (maybe?)
Summative: Grade final report with comprehensive rubric –
include for effort and attitude

Use of English objectives:


New: How to present diorama language? Constructing
compound sentences related to the writing?

Word Study objectives:


Review: Syllables
New:
44 graphemes (Deeper) and sound symbols?
Schwa Sound
Silent Letters
Oral and reading fluency skills
Summative: Final Word Study Dictation and fluency
assessment, Average of weekly dictations and classdojo
videos

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