Ready to Go Lessons: Reading & Writing Grade 3

This text is a little advanced for my 3rd. graders, but these neatly organized lessons are excellent inspiration! It's always good to have an extra lesson plan on hand.

English: Grades 3-4

Review! Review! Review! English provides great homework sheets for structure and parts of speech.

Journal Writing: Primary

- Journal Cover Templates
- Cross-content area writing Prompts
- Penmanship

Grammar, Usage & Mechanics

Day 7: The 20 day count down to the CRCT is on! Test prep is the name of the game for my 3rd.-5th graders. The following few posts are for all you diligent students and teachers, honing your test-taking craft. 

P.S.

Is it just me, or should there be a comma after "usage"? The title is clearly a list of items. 

It's Ok to Be Different

I'll admit that I wasn't exactly thrilled about this colorful picture book on first read. However, I did find it exceedingly entertaining, engaging, and thought provoking. My kindergarteners reactions where the clincher though.
"It's ok to be large"
      "He's fat!"

"It's ok to be missing a tooth (or two or three)"
     "I haven't lost any teeth. I'm so mad."

"It's ok to have different nose."
     "Ewww!!!"

Now, doesn't this sound like a good time for a discussion on appreciating differences?

About Insects: A Guide for Children

Wonderful instructional text for children! No gross photos either. My kindergarteners appreciated that.Cathryn and John Sill form an excellent team to communicate basic life science through text and detailed illustrations. It's amazing how much information you can gather from a realistic illustration.

March Daily Comprehension

Happy St. Patty's! I wish I had a more exciting book to post today. Remedia Publications's March is a great way to incorporate reading with the content area social studies. Each daily reading covers an event or person in history. Cultivating a habit of  remembering has far reaching benefits for all readers.