Third Grade Reading, Language, Writing - Unit 4C, Leadership (Presidents)

Following the Common Core Curriculum Map for Third Grade Unit 4 from Commoncore.org, this two week unit focuses on the theme Leadership.

Activities for reading, language, poetry and writing are included for these third grade standards: RI.1, RI.2, RI.3, RI.4, RI.5, RI.6, RI.9, RI.10, RF.3.a, W.1, W.2, W.5, W.6, W.7, W.10, SL.1, SL.3, SL.6,, L.1.c, L.2, L.3, L.4.d, L.6

Suggested integration: social studies unit on Citizenship.

Literary Texts:
Informational Text: So You Want to Be President (St.George) Exemplar Text, Smart About the Presidents (Buller)
Biographies about Presidents

***Texts not included


This packet has 44 pages, 8 pages of Teacher Information (Unit outline and activity directions), 30 pages of student activities and 5 answer keys.

Reading activities:
-Predict and Confirm for 2 books
-Compare and Contrast Teams (comparing 2 books on same topic)
-Presidential Questions, research about a president of choice

Art Discussion:
-Presidential Portraits

Poems:
-George Washington by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet

Language activities: Suffixes, -able, -ful, -less, -ness, -ly, -y, -er, -or
-Suffix picture cards and word cards
-3 activities with picture and word cards
-3 practice worksheets, 2 suffixes per page
-Suffix Stars and Stripes review

Writing Activities
-President Biopoem using research notes

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