Having completed this unit, students will have worked to achieve the following Connecticut's Common Core of Learning Program Goals for Language Arts:
Common Core Standards – Literacy/Reading
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text
- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea
- Describe the relationship between a series of historical events
Common Core Standards – Literacy/Writing
- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly
- Introduce a topic and group related information together
- Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences
- Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally
- With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose
- With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing
- With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others
- Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic
- Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories
Common Core Standards – Literacy/Speaking and Listening
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on
grade 3 topics and texts
, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly
- Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others
- Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
