Exploring Structure through Resource Materials

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Exploring Structure through Resource Materials

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Grade Levels
3rd Grade
Eligible Content
Big Ideas

Objectives
Students have been introduced to resource materials in earlier grades. They
are familiar with the uses of a dictionary, a thesaurus, and an encyclopedia.
This unit will build on their prior knowledge and expand their understanding.

Objectives
Students
will:
review when and how to use specific resource materials.
Students have been introduced to resource materials in earlier grades. They
explore ways that the use of resource materials enhances
areunderstanding.
familiar with the uses of a dictionary, a thesaurus, and an encyclopedia.
This unit will build on their prior knowledge and expand their understanding.
Students will:

Essential Questions

Related Academic Standards

Concepts
CC.1.2.3.A Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details

review
when
and how to use specific resource materials.
Why learn
new
words?

and explain how they support the main idea.

Competencies

explore ways
the usedo
of readers
resource
materials
What strategies
andthat
resources
use
to figureenhances
out unknown
understanding.
vocabulary?

CC.1.2.3.B Ask and answer questions about the text and make
inferences from text; refer to text to support responses.

How do learners develop and refine their vocabulary?

How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and

literary text?
Essential
Questions
CC.1.2.3.C Explain how a series of events, concepts, or steps in a
procedure is connected within a text, using language that pertains to
time, sequence, and cause/effect.
CC.1.2.3.F Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are

What is this text really about?

How does
with text provoke thinking and response?
Whyinteraction
learn new words?
What strategies and resources do readers use to figure out unknown
vocabulary?

Related Unit and Lesson Plans

Exploring a Dictionary
Exploring an Atlas
Exploring an Encyclopedia

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required for this unit.
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