Curriculum Mapping Project

TE 871 – Dr. Sherry Crow

Submitted by Jamie Gruntorad

March 11, 2020

Third Grade Wonders Reading Curriculum Map with Standards

UNIT ONE
 Week Comprehension Skill Standards
LA 3.1.5.a Determine meaning of words
1 through the knowledge of word structure
elements, known words, and word patterns
(e.g., contractions, plurals, possessives, parts
of speech, syllables, affixes, base and root
Character, Setting, Plot: words, abbreviations).
Character LA 3.1.5.b Apply context clues (e.g., word,
phrase, and sentence clues) and text features
Essential Question: to help infer meaning of unknown words.
What can stories teach you? LA 3.1.5.d Identify semantic relationships
(e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs,
homophones, multiple-meaning words) to
2 determine the meaning of words, aid in
comprehension, and improve writing.
LA 3.1.6.c Identify and explain why authors
use literary devices (e.g., simile, alliteration,
Character, Setting, Plot: onomatopoeia, imagery, rhythm,
personification, hyperbole, idioms).
Sequence LA 3.1.6.d Summarize a literary text and/or
Essential Question: media, using key details to identify the
What can traditions teach you about theme.
LA 3.1.6.e Determine main ideas and
cultures? supporting details from informational text
and/or media.
3 LA 3.1.6.f Use text features to locate
information and explain how the information
contributes to an understanding of print and
digital text.
Text Structure: Sequence LA 3.1.6.g Compare and contrast the
Essential Question: characteristics that distinguish a variety of
How can people from different literary and informational texts.
LA 3.1.6.h Compare and contrast similar
countries contribute to a themes, topics, and/or patterns of events in
community? literary and informational texts to develop a
multicultural perspective.
4 LA 3.1.6.i Construct and/or answer literal
and inferential questions and support
answers with specific evidence from the text
or additional sources.
Text Structure: LA 3.1.6.j Identify and apply knowledge of
organizational patterns to comprehend
Cause & Effect informational text (e.g., sequence,
Essential Question: description, cause and effect,
How can problem solving lead to compare/contrast).
new ideas?

5
Main Idea &
Essential Question: Key Details
How do landmarks help us
understand our country’s story?

UNIT TWO
Week Comprehension Skill Standards
 LA 3.1.5.a Determine meaning of words
through the knowledge of word structure
1 elements, known words, and word patterns
(e.g., contractions, plurals, possessives, parts
of speech, syllables, affixes, base and root
Theme words, abbreviations).
LA 3.1.5.b Apply context clues (e.g., word,
Essential Question: phrase, and sentence clues) and text features
Why is working together a good to help infer meaning of unknown words.
way to solve a problem? LA 3.1.5.d Identify semantic relationships
(e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs,
homophones, multiple-meaning words) to
2 determine the meaning of words, aid in
comprehension, and improve writing.
LA 3.1.6.c Identify and explain why authors
use literary devices (e.g., simile, alliteration,
Theme onomatopoeia, imagery, rhythm,
personification, hyperbole, idioms).
LA 3.1.6.d Summarize a literary text and/or
Essential Question: media, using key details to identify the
Why do people immigrate to new theme.
LA 3.1.6.e Determine main ideas and
places? supporting details from informational text
and/or media.
3 LA 3.1.6.f Use text features to locate
information and explain how the information
contributes to an understanding of print and
digital text.
Author’s Point of View LA 3.1.6.g Compare and contrast the
characteristics that distinguish a variety of
literary and informational texts.
Essential Question: LA 3.1.6.h Compare and contrast similar
How do people make government themes, topics, and/or patterns of events in
work? literary and informational texts to develop a
multicultural perspective.
4 LA 3.1.6.i Construct and/or answer literal
and inferential questions and support
answers with specific evidence from the text
or additional sources.
LA 3.1.6.j Identify and apply knowledge of
Author’s Point of View organizational patterns to comprehend
informational text (e.g., sequence,
Essential Question: description, cause and effect,
How can people help animals compare/contrast).
survive?

5
Author’s Point of View

Essential Question:
How do people figure things out?

Teaching Strategies
  An explicit instruction model is used for the instruction routines. The routines are
created by the literacy coaches from each grade level. Power points are provided for
instruction of English Language Arts content.
 Students are instructed whole group on word work, vocabulary, spelling, and
comprehension.
 Small group instruction is used for extended comprehension and vocabulary. The groups
are structured with connected text, comprehension skill work, and independent
application of the comprehension skill.

Special Considerations
 Special need students are provided accommodations that are aligned to their needs and
written into the student’s IEP. Various supplemental resources are utilized to achieve
academic standards.

English as Second Language (ESL)

 The ESL students in our school start in a Newcomers classroom if they speak no English
at all. They are instructed in English language and will be mainstreamed into a regular
classroom when their testing scores meet benchmark.
 Provide small groups for a more personal, lower-risk setting
 Provide videos or pictures of things that are not common in their native language
 Use sentence frames to help students structure language in a formal way
 Use of different graphic organizers and Venn Diagrams
 Build background knowledge when new topics are introduced
 Use modeling and allow extra practice time

Disabilities
 Align the content with the developmental level of the learner
 Give instructions through several modalities
 Establish a buddy system so students can help each other
 Adjust pacing and time requirements for work completion
 Allow students to reveal proficiency by using their best means of expression

Gifted
 Provide individual projects based on individual interests
 Encourage creativity and original thinking
 Provide higher level reading materials
 Extend their learning into enrichment projects

Needs/Resources Weakness Report

The current third grade Reading curriculum utilizes one main textbook. The 2014 McGraw-Hill
Wonders curriculum includes a Literature Anthology, a Reading/Writing Workshop textbook
and leveled readers. Teachers and students also have access to ConnectEd, which is an
interactive online support for the weekly skills. Teachers expressed to me that there is a surplus
of these materials available to each third-grade classroom. They felt the area that they needed
additional support from the library is in the area of texts that correspond to the weekly
comprehension skill. This is what is taught and reinforced in small group instruction. They
expressed that the language arts standards are covered with the power point slides that are
provided to them for instruction.

After looking at several classroom teacher’s classroom libraries, I noticed that most of their
books were books they received from retired teachers or from bonus points from book orders.
Many of the classrooms had chapter books, which have a higher reading level than a lot of the
students in the classroom. The books didn’t necessarily correspond to the standards that are
required in the third grade Reading curriculum. The classrooms are needing mentor texts that
reinforce the comprehension skills in a variety of different reading levels. Our school library has
an average age of 200l for our book collection and there are so many recently written books that
can be applied to the third-grade standards and skills. We also have no eBooks, so this is also a
reliable source that can be added to be used for instruction.

To improve the resources that are available from the school library, I plan on researching
websites and teachers’ blogs for book recommendations that correspond with the comprehension
skill. I will also use Titlewave in Follett for book reviews to help with the decision of choosing
the book titles. I have a library budget this school year of $3,000 and plan on using part of the
money to support the third grade Reading curriculum. I am starting with quarter one
comprehension skills and can add on additional comprehension skills in my future library orders.
I also realize that the Reading curriculum will change through the years, but I feel the
comprehension skills will continue to focus on the same types of reading components.

I addition, I will provide the third-grade teachers with a list of the books that correspond to the
weekly comprehension skill. This will support them in their instruction of small groups and help
them to teach the comprehension skill proficiently.

Recommended Resources
Topic Title Author Publisher Date Price Vendor Format
Character Max the Ed Vere Sourcebooks 2015 $14.81 Follett Print book
Brave Jabberwocky
Character Page by Laura Lee Amulet Books 2011 $8.96 Follett eBook
Paige Gulledge
Character Love, Z Jessie Sima Simon & Schuster 2018 $15.67 Follett Print book
Character Drum Margarita Houghton Mifflin 2015 $15.67 Follett Print book
Dream Girl Engle Harcourt
Sequence Nope! Drew Viking 2017 $15.67 Follett Print book
Sheneman
Sequence Aquarium Cynthia Chronicle Books 2018 $15.67 Follett Print book
Alonso
Sequence The Bear’s Benjamin Chronicle Books 2013 $17.99 Follett eBook
Song Chaud
Sequence Twig Aura Parker Simon & Schuster 2018 $15.67 Follett Print book
Sequence The Little Brenda Maier Scholastic Press 2018 $15.67 Follett Print book
Red Fort
Sequence The Only Philip Roaring Brook Press 2017 $15.67 Follett Print book
Fish in the Christian
Sea Stead
Sequence Alpacas Matt Scholastic Press 2020 $13.09 Follett Print book
with Cosgrove
Maracas
Sequence Castle David Houghton Mifflin 2013 $17.39 Follett Print book
Macaulay Harcourt
Cause & Because David Ezra Candlewick Press 2012 $15.67 Follett Print book
Effect Amelia Stein
Smiled
Cause & A Place for Melissa Peachtree 2019 $14.78 Follett Print book
Effect Turtles Stewart
Cause & Dog Breath Carolyn Beck Fitzhenry & 2011 $20.95 Follett eBook
Effect Whiteside
Cause & Good News, Jeff Mack Chronicle Books 2012 $14.81 Follett Print book
Effect Bad News
Main Idea & A Bike Like Maribeth Candlewick Press 2016 $13.95 Follett Print book
Key Details Sergio’s Boelts
Main Idea & Who Has Laura Hulbert Henry Holt 2011 $15.67 Follett Print book
Key Details These Feet?
Main Idea & Bee Dance Rick Henry Holt & 2015 $16.53 Follett Print book
Key Details Chrustowski Company
Main Idea & She Chelsea Philomel Books 2017 $15.67 Follett Print book
Key Details Persisted: Clinton
13
American
Women
Who
Changed the
World
Theme The Hueys Oliver Jeffers Philomel Books 2015 $6.16 Follett Print book
in the New
Sweater
Theme Those Maribeth Candlewick Press 2009 $13.22 Follett Print book
Shoes Boelts
Theme Peanut Terry Border Philomel Books 2014 $15.67 Follett Print book
Butter &
Cupcake!
Theme I Walk with Kerascoet Schwartz & Wade 2018 $15.67 Follett Print book
Vanessa Books
Theme My Name is Karen Lynn Eerdmans Books for 2009 $18.00 Follett eBook
Sangoel Williams Young Readers
Theme The Pat Zietlow Chronicle Books 2016 $14.81 Follett Print book
Quickest Miller
Kid in
Clarksville
Theme Bluebird Bob Staake Schwartz & Wade 2013 $15.67 Follett Print book
Books
Theme These Margaret H. Houghton Mifflin 2010 $14.71 Follett Print book
Hands Mason Books for Children
Author’s They All Brendan Chronicle Books 2016 $14.81 Follett Print book
Point of Saw a Cat Wenzel
View
Author’s Memoirs of Devin Sleeping Bear Press 2010 $13.92 Follett Print book
Point of a Goldfish Scillian
View
Author’s Voices in Anthony DK Pub 2001 $15.01 Follett Print book
Point of the Park Browne
View
Author’s School’s Rex Adam Roaring Book Press 2016 $15.67 Follett Print book
Point of First Day of
View School
Author’s All my Shaina Magination 2014 $15.95 Follett Print book
Point of Stripes: A Rudolph Press
View Story for
Children
with Autism
Author’s The Pamela Houghton Mifflin 2015 $16.29 Follett Print book
Point of Whisperer Zagarenski Harcourt
View
Author’s Back of the Aaron Philomel Books 2010 $14.71 Follett Print book
Point of Bus Reynolds
View
Author’s From Here Margery ipicturebookscom 1991 $15.26 Follett eBook
Point of to There Cuyler
View