Third Grade Lesson Plans

Titles that appear in bold represent the best of the "Share the Knowledge" units presented over the years at Core Knowledge National Conferences.

Language Arts/ English

I. Reading and Writing

• All About Me (2006)
• Write On! Step-by-Step Paragraph and Report Writing (2005)
• Tales from Arabia: Lessons in Literature and Character (2003)
• The "Write" Stuff: Third Grade Strategies and Conventions for Expository Writing (2002)
• Step Into Writing (2002)
• Using a Writing Workshop (2002)
• Open Sesame: A Magical World of Reading (2001)

II. Poetry

• Pageant of Poetry: A Center Approach (2005)
• Understanding Eletelephony and Other Small Words Through Poetry (2004)
• Patchwork Poetry (2003)
• Poetry: Developing A Taste (1997)

III. Fiction

• Astronomy, Mythology, and Music (2005)
• "Adventures in Wonderland" A Genre Story (2004)
• Tales from Arabia: Lessons in Literature and Character (2003)
• Gods of Thunder: Myths and Mythical Characters (2002)
• Alice in Wonderland (2001)
• The Wind in the Willows (2001)

IV. Sayings and Phrases

• Proverbs and Idioms (2007)
• The Show Must Go On (1998) — This unit is incomplete

History and Geography

World:

I. Geography

• A River Runs through It (2007)
• Spatial Connections, Grades 1–4 (2003)
• We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands: Geography - Spatial Sense (2003)
• Canada: A Land Rich in Beauty and Culture (2001)
• Hands Across the Border - Welcome to Canada!  (2001)
• Where Am I? Navigating Around the Globe (1998)

II. Ancient Rome

• Byzantine Civilization: The Missing Link (2002)
• When in Rome... Activate the Abstract (2002)
• Veni, Vidi, Vici (2001)
• Geography: Ancient Rome (1999)
• Foundations of Ancient Rome (1995)

III. The Vikings

• Be a Viking! (2006)
• A-Viking We Will Go (2004)
• Leif Ericsson (Leif "the Lucky") and Unsung Discoverer (2003)
• The Vikings of Scandinavia (1997)

American:

I. The Earliest Americans

• Earliest Americans and Their Environments (2006)
• Earliest Americans (2006)
• A Quest for the Earliest Americans (2002)

II. Early Exploration of North America

• Early Exploration of North America (2004)
• The Quest for an Empire: Youth, Gold, and Land (2003)
• Conquistadors (2002)
• Age of Exploration (1997)

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