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Harper Collins Children's Books

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Overview:

This teaching guide features discussion questions and writing activities for The Giving Tree; Don’t Bump the Glump!; A Giraffe and a Half; Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back; Where the Sidewalk Ends; and Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? Each story includes classroom discussion and suggested teaching activities.

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English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	17. Use grade-level academic and domain-specific vocabulary in writing. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 17. Academic vocabulary Domain-specific vocabulary Writing Knowledge: 17. Students know: Academic vocabulary is language that is more formal than spoken language. Domain-specific vocabulary refers to words that are used specifically in school subject areas, like math, science, and social studies. Academic, domain-specific vocabulary words should be used in writing to clearly communicate ideas. Skills: 17. Students are able to: Use third grade-level academic and domain-specific vocabulary words in writing. Understanding: 17. Students understand that: Using academic and domain-specific vocabulary words in writing makes their writing more interesting and helps to clearly communicate their message.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	33. Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 33. Personal narrative Fictional narrative Logical plot Sequence of events Characters Transitions Closure Knowledge: 33. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made up story. A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end) and provides a sense of closure as an ending. A narrative story describes the actions, thoughts, and feelings of the characters. Narrative transitions indicate when and where the story is occurring. Skills: 33. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and details that describe how the characters feels, acts, and thinks. Use appropriate transitions in narrative writing. Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure. Understanding: 33. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure. Because narrative writing describes a chronological sequence of events, it includes transitions that indicate the time and place in which the story is occurring. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	36. Demonstrate knowledge of the rules of standard English grammar including punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling appropriate for third grade. a. Use articles a, an, and the correctly. b. Identify the role of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction within a sentence and explain the type of the information it conveys. c. Form plural nouns, verbs, and possessives, including irregular plural nouns and verbs. d. Use simple abbreviations, including days of the week, months of the year, titles, units of metric and customary measurement, street names, and state names. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 36. Demonstrate Knowledge Rules of standard English grammar Punctuation Capitalization Sentence formation Spelling 36a. Articles 36b. Identify Role Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Pronoun Preposition Conjunction Information Conveys 36c. Form Plural noun Plural verb Plural possessives Irregular plural nouns Irregular plural verbs 36d. Simple abbreviations Knowledge: 36. Students know: Standard English grammar and spelling conventions. Punctuation marks and their appropriate usage. Capitalization rules for standard English. Complete sentences have a subject and predicate and end with an ending punctuation mark. 36a. The articles a, an, and the come before a noun to show if it's specific or general. The is used to refer to specific or particular nouns. A and an are used to refer to a non-specific, general noun. A is generally used before nouns that start with a consonant sound. An is generally used before nouns that start with a vowel sound. 36b. There are different types of words within a sentence, and each word provides a particular type of information. The role of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction within a sentence. 36c. A plural shows there is more than one of something. An -s or -es suffix is added to the end of regular nouns and verbs for subject-verb agreement and to form plurals. Possessives show ownership and an apostrophe is used in the formation of possessives. A plural possessive is used when a plural noun has ownership, or possession, of something. Some nouns and verbs do not follow the regular pattern when forming a plural. 36d. An abbreviation is a shortened version of a whole word and it will usually have a period at the end of the shortened version. Skills: 36. Students are able to: Demonstrate knowledge of the rules of standard English grammar. Use appropriate punctuation. Use correct capitalization. Form sentences correctly. Spell third grade level words correctly. 36a. Correctly use the articles a, an, and the in writing. 36b. Identify a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction in a sentence. Explain the type of information nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions provides in a sentence. 36c. Form plural nouns, verbs, and possessives in writing. Form irregular nouns and verbs in writing. 36d. Form correct abbreviations for days of the week, months of the year, titles, units of metric and customary measurement, street names, and state names in writing. Understanding: 36. Students understand that: There are rules to forming grammatically correct sentences in standard English. When writing, they must use punctuation correctly, capitalize appropriate words, form complete sentences with subject-verb agreement, and spell the words that are appropriate for third graders. 36a. Articles are a part of speech that can come before a noun to indicate if the noun is specific (Bring me the book) or general (Bring me a book.) A is usually used before nouns that start with a consonant sound, while an is usually used before words that start with a vowel sound. 36b. Each word in a sentence plays an important role in conveying meaning. A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea and tells who or what the sentence is about. A verb expresses an action or a state of being and tells what the noun is doing. An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun and tells attributes of the noun. An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or adverb, and provides more description about another word in the sentence. A pronoun can be used in place of a noun. A preposition is placed before a noun or pronoun to create a prepositional phrase that modifies (changes the meaning of) another word in the sentence. A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses and indicates the relationship between the joined units; there are coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. 36c. There are standard English grammar conventions to make nouns, verbs, and possessives plural, and following these conventions helps make their writing clear. Some nouns and verbs do not form plurals in a regular way. 36d. Abbreviations can be used in place of whole words when writing.

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A Giraffe and a Half, Dont Bump the Glump, fiction, Lafcadio the Lion Who Shot Back, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros, writing

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