Focus: Unit 2 introduces the Skills components of spelling, grammar, and morphology. Students also read Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals and learn about warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, vertebrates and invertebrates, and how scientists classify living things.
Number of Lessons: 15
Lesson Time: 50–80 minutes each. Each lesson may be divided into shorter segments.
Additional Search Terms: nonfiction • animal classification • suffixes • prefixes • adjectives • nouns • verbs
Teacher Guide: Third Grade Skills Unit 2
This comprehensive Teacher Guide specifies learning objectives and provides background information, daily lesson plans, assessments, and other resources for teaching the Skills unit.
Student Workbook: Third Grade Skills Unit 2
Student Workbooks contain activity pages that provide practice or reinforcement of skills taught in the unit. Graphic organizers, assessment tasks, and take home activities are also included in the workbooks.
Student Reader: Third Grade Skills Unit 2
The Student Reader for Unit 2 is titled Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals. Students learn about the characteristics of living things and how scientists classify animals using these characteristics. The Student Reader includes complex text and prepares students for increased vocabulary and syntax demands in later grades.
Vocabulary Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 2
Vocabulary Cards reinforce vocabulary listed in the glossary of the unit’s Student Reader.
Vocabulary Image Cards: Third Grade Skills Unit 2
Image Cards are used to reinforce and deepen students’ understanding of the vocabulary listed in the Student Reader glossary.
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