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CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What’s in Our Universe?


Focus:
In Unit 7, students continue to build skills in spelling, grammar, and morphology. In addition through their Student Reader, What’s in Our Universe, they build a greater understanding of the universe and the celestial bodies within it. At the end of the unit, students apply note-taking skills and their knowledge of the qualities of strong paragraphs to write a research paper on a topic about astronomy.

Number of Lessons: 15

Lesson Time:
50–80 minutes each (Each lesson may be divided into shorter segments.)

Additional Search Terms:
nonfiction • astronomy • singular possessive nouns • plural possessive nouns • research paper

Language Arts Grade 3 English

Individual Resources

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CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What's in Our Universe? TEACHER GUIDE

This comprehensive Teacher Guide specifies learning objectives and provides background information, daily lesson plans, assessments, and other resources for teaching the Skills unit.

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CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What's in Our Universe? STUDENT WORKBOOK

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.

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CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What's in Our Universe? STUDENT READER

These 100% decodable texts provide children an authentic reading experience and reinforce their sense of success by eliminating the distraction of encountering untaught spelling patterns. The texts are written in the style of chapter books to inspire children to want to read more.

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CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What's in Our Universe? VOCABULARY CARDS

Vocabulary Cards reinforce vocabulary listed in the glossary of the unit’s Student Reader.

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CKLA Unit 7: Third Grade Skills—What's in Our Universe? VOCABULARY IMAGE CARDS

Image Cards are used to reinforce and deepen students’ understanding of the vocabulary listed in the Student Reader glossary.