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August-October
A. Unit Overview:
My long-range plan will be focused on the first nine weeks of the 2016 school year. My
cooperating teacher was provided with the district pacing guide. All third grade teachers at
Mathews Elementary use the pacing guide to stay on track and cover all needed material. For
English Language Arts we cover reading, writing, and word study. Each is addressed in the
pacing guide, as well as a list of read alouds and mentor texts. The yellow and green coded
sections of the pacing guide are for the first nine weeks.
B. Unit Goals:
Throughout this unit, students will build a reading life and focus on crafting true stories.
To do this, we will be using unit one of Lucy Calkins reading and writing. Each unit is split into
bends. Unit one of reading has three bends: Making a Reading Life, Understanding the Story,
and Tackling more Challenging Words. Each of these bends work together to help students
understand why they read and how to understand a story while reading. Unit one of writing has
four bends: Writing Personal Narratives with Independence, Becoming a Storyteller on the
Page, Writing with New Independence on a Second Piece, and Fixing Up and Fancying Up Our
Best Work: Revision and Editing. These writing bends come together to help the students
create true stories while also working on specific writing skills.
Students will also be concentrating on short vowel patterns words, long vowel pattern
words, and CV open syllable y words. Each week the students will focus on a word pattern and
study it intensely until it is mastered. Learning the word patterns is more beneficial than just
memorizing spelling words.
C. August/September Nine Weeks Unit: