Instructional Calendar for:

 

Languge Arts Third Grade

2007-2008

 

1st Quarter (44)

2nd Quarter (47)

3rd Quarter (48)

4th Quarter (43)

SEPTEMBER 3-7

 

NOVEMBER 5-9

NOVEMBER 12-16

JANUARY 28 – FEB 1

 

APRIL 14-18

(Sept 3 Labor Day)

Reading:  “What Good Readers Do.”; Identify story elements; character, setting; reading workshop procedures

Writing:  Introduce Friday Letter Writing

 

(Nov 5 Teacher Workday)

(Nov 6 Conference Day)

GR:   Inference ; connections; Folk

         Literature unit

WS:  Present tense verbs

WW:  Story writing; quotation marks

          Friday Letter

 

GR:  Biographies/Nonfiction

WW:  research biography report

          Begin informational writing

WS:  Suffixes

 

 (April 14 Teacher In-service / Wkdy)

 

GR:  Practice of learned strategies

        SOL Review

WW:  review of punctuation

WS:  Compound Words

 

SEPTEMBER 10-14

NOVEMBER 12-16

 

FEBRUARY 4-8

APRIL 21-25

GR; Identify story elements; character, setting;  reading workshop procedures

WW:  Complete Sent; subj. pred.

          Introduce Writing Process

          Friday letter

Word Study:Frequently Mispelled words

 

(Nov 12 – Veterans Day)

GR:  Folk Literature Unit

        Figurative Language

WW:  Subj-Verb Agreement

         story writing; quotation marks

WS: Verbs

 

 

GR:  Main Idea/Details

        Read for Information

WW:  Research report

WS: Prefix

 

 

GR:  Practice of learned strategies

SOL PREP/Review  & teaching test taking strategies

WS:  possessives

WW:  review of punctuation

SEPTEMBER 17-21

NOVEMBER 19-23

FEBRUARY 11-15

APRIL 28- MAY 2

 

GR: story elements; character, setting, problem, solution

WW.   4 Kinds of Sentences

            Friday Letter

WS:  Frequently Mispelled words

 

 

GR: - Folk Literature

         Figurative Language

WW: - Review of verbs; story  writing

WS – none

(Nov 22-23 Thanksgiving break)

 

GR:  Main Idea/Details

         Compare/Contrast

WW:  Research report

WS: Prefix

 

 

GR:  Practice of learned strategies

SOL PREP/Review & teaching test taking strategies

WW:  writing in content areas

CFA - Writing

SEPTEMBER 24-28

NOVEMBER 26-30

 

FEBRUARY 18-22

MAY 5-9

GR:   story elelements; character, setting, problem, solution; routines for independent reading

WW: Run on Sentences; Writing

            Process;  Friday Letter

WS:  review of short vowel sounds

 

GR: Context Clues

WW:  Story writing;

          verbs

WS: verb patterns

 

(Feb 18 President’s Day Holiday)

 

GR:  Poetry

WW:  Poetry writing

WS:  Review prefix/suffix

CFA - Research

 

GR:  Practice of learned strategies

SOL PREP/Review

WW:  writing in content areas

OCTOBER 1-5

DECEMBER 3-7

FEB 25-29

MAY 12-16

GR – Story elements – all

         routines for independent

         reading; questioning

WW - Review of Sentences

        Friday Letter; Writing Process

WS –review of long vowels

 

GR:  Fiction CFA Test

WW:  Past tense verbs/agreement

          story writing

WS:   Verbs/double final consonant

 

 

GR:  Poetry

        Read for Information/Flyers

WW:  Poetry Writing

WS: Homophones

 

 

GR:  Practice of learned strategies

SOL PREP/Review

WW:  writing in content areas

OCTOBER 8-12

DECEMBER 10-14

MARCH 3-7

MAY 19-23

GR story elements

      questioning

WW:   Common/Proper Nouns

         Writing narrative paragraphs

         Friday Letter

WS: review of long vowels

 

GR:   Inferences

WS: verbs; words y to i 

WW:  Irregular Verbs/agreement;

          story writing

 

GR:  Main Idea

WW:  Poetry writing

WS: Homophones

 

 

SOL PREP/Review

OCTOBER 15-19

DECEMBER 17-21

 

MARCH 10-14

MAY 26-30

GR: Problem/Solution

WW  Capitalization  p.182-184

      Writing narrative paragraphs

          Friday Letter

WS: review of long vowels

 

 

GR:  Inferences

WW:  story writing

 

WS:  Review of all verb patterns

(Dec 24-Jan 1 Winter Break)

GR:  Main Idea

WW:  Write to express opinion

WS: Homophones

 

 (Mar 17-21 Spring Break)

 

(May 26 Memorial Day Holiday)

 

SOL TESTING WINDOW

OCTOBER 22-26

DEC 31-JAN 4

MARCH 24-28

JUNE 2-6

 

GR: Problem/Solution

Inferences about character

WW:  Capitalization,  Abbreviations and  Book Titles;  narrative paragraphs; *

CFA Cueing

WS: Plural nouns -S &-ES

 

 

(Jan 1 New Year’s Day Observed)

GR:  Sequencing

WS:  Contractions

WW:  Write instructions

 

GR:  Context Clues

WW:  Write to express opinion

WS: Synonyms/Antonyms

 

 

 

SOL TESTING WINDOW

OCT 29 – NOV 2

JANUARY 7-11

MAR 31- APR 4

JUNE 9-13

GR: Inferencing; making

       connections – self, text, world

WW:   Punctuation (commas, punct.) ; narrative paragraphs  *

WS: Plural Nouns -y, -ti, -fe, ves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GR:  Sequencing

WW:  Write instructions

WS: Contractions

 

GR:  Groups practicing learned

         strategies

WW:  Write to persuade

WS: antonyms

CFA – Non-fiction

 

SOL TESTING WINDOW

(Last day of school – June 13)

 

NOVEMBER 5-9

JANUARY 14-18

 

APR 7-11

 

 

(End of grading period – Nov 2)

 

GR:  Fact and Opinion

WW:  Elaborating with Adjectives

      Review descriptive paragraphs

WS:  Adjectives

 

 

GR:  Groups practicing learned

        strategies

WW:  Write to persuade

WS: antonyms

(End of grading period – Apr 11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 5-9

JANUARY 21-25

 

 

 

New letters are introduced in

Cursive Writing every Monday and practiced throughout the week.

 

*  Students write a letter to parents every Friday detailing an event of the week.

(Jan 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observed)

(Jan 22 –Parent/Teacher Conf. Day ½ day)

 

GR:  Resource Materials

WW:  Resource materials

WS:  none

(End of grading period – Jan 25)

 

WW = Writing workshop

 

WS = Word Study

 

GR = Guided Reading (Reading

          Workshop)