Writing Workshop Lesson Plan

Week of Feb 15

Margaret Watson third grade

Common Core Standards: 3.W.4 produce writing appropriate to task and purpose 3.W.5
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as
needed by planning, revising and editing.
Monday
Write what character
traits a president
should have

Tuesday
.note taking

Wednesday
.give each student a
bag with 1 rock in it.
They must take out
the rock and write a
list of descriptive
adjectives of the rock.

.class makes a list

of all of the
descriptive
adjectives of rocks.

Reading and Math scroll down

Thursday
Write a descriptive
paragraph about
your rock.

Friday
.compare contrast
your rock with a
friends rock.

Reading
Reading Literature Monday- Friday3
3.RL.1 ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text referring explicitly to the text
3.RL.5 refer to parts of dramas and poems when writing or speaking about a text using terms describe how each
successive part builds

.3.L.4a

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

. Bell work.- Parts of

Bell work- Parts of

. Bell work- Parts of

Bell work Parts of

speech- nouns, verbs,

pronouns, adjective.

speech- nouns, verbs,

pronouns, adjective

speech- nouns, verbs,

pronouns, adjective

speech- nouns, verbs,

pronouns, adjective

Intro to drama/plays

.Dramas/plays

p.104-110 whole group

from Common Core
Coach ELA3 book A
Garden to Share

Vocabulary/ Cast of
characters, dialogue,
acts, scenes, stage
directions, script , then
make predictions

. How the plot builds

. All complete worksheet

Point of view
Sequence of events

at the end.

First practice of short

plays in two groups
1) A Career Day
Lesson ll
students p.. 7882 Common
Core Support
Coach
2) How Honeybee
Got Her Stripesp. 86-90
Common Core
Support Coach
14 students
Each teacher works
with one team to go
over and practice
fluency, stage
directions; then
perform for each other

Friday
.Quiz identifying
nouns, verbs,
pronouns, and
adjectives in
sentences.
Quiz on plays

. Poetry introduction;
vocabulary:
Stanza, line
Rhythm
Rhyme
Mood or tone
Message
Point of view
Nonliteral language

Visualize
-Common Core
Support Reading
Coach pp. 56-57

Reading groups: Pull

out groups based on
previous scores on
schoolcity

Bus evac
interventions
Reading groups: Pull
out groups based on
previous scores on
schoolcity

.interventions
.. Reading groups: Pull
out groups based on
previous scores on
schoolcity

.. Reading groups:
Pull out groups
based on previous
scores on schoolcity

. Reading groups:
Pull out groups
based on previous
scores on
schoolcity

Reading centers for this week: Read to Self (self selected books), Read to Someoneleveled text and questions , Word Work- parts of speech practice Reading for
Information : finish work from Scholastic News Coyotes in the Cities Writing- working on
writing as in a.m.
Reading groups: (Several children in two groups because of varied needs) To be determined by
schoolcity scores as well

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3)
4)

1) Natalia, Brooklyn, Andrew, Leia, Marc (intensive) focus- word attack and fluency Materials
(present progressive and past tense verbs, and leveled readers)
Yaniva, Francisco, Mya, Saydee, Alexes, Thomas (strategic ) Focus using text features,
questioning, predicting to gain comprehension
Michael, Benjamin, Christian, Leia, Marc(on level) referring back to the text to justify answers
Christian, , Jayden , Leia, Gavyn , April (on level) figurative language, higher order thinking by
making inferences, drawing conclusions
Mia, Nathan, Adam, Adrianna, Sofia, Juan (advanced) figurative language, higher order thinking by
making inferences, drawing conclusions

Math Week of Feb 15, 2016 Common Core Standards:

3.MD.3 draw a scaled pictograph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with
several catagories

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Multiplication of 4s
fluency
.review fractions

Multiplication of 4s
fluency
Review multiplication
skills.

Multiplication of 4s
fluency
Review
addition/subtraction

Multiplication of 4s
fluency
.review
measurement

Determining area of
irregular rectilinear
shapes

EngageNY module 6
lesson 1 data analysis
generate and
organize data tally
marks and beginning
pictographs
Exit ticket

EngageNY module 6
lesson 2 data analysis
rotate tape diagrams
vertically to create a
bar graph

EngageNY module 6
lesson 3 data
analysis create
scaled bar graphs

Exit ticket.

Exit ticket. .

Exit ticket

Friday
Multiplication of 4s
fluency quiz
..review relating
multiplication to
division
EngageNY module 6
lesson 4data analysis
solve 1 and 2 step
problems involving
graphs and introduce
line plot graphs
Exit ticket..