Parents/Guardians: please use this link to see what your child is learning and what he/she will be learning each week. The Year at a Glance (YAG) from CSCOPE is a great and easy way to see how we our planning and what we are touching on in each semester or 9 weeks for Math, Science, and Social Studies. In Language Arts, refer to the skills/reading strategy/grammar skills learned in each lesson which is outlined for us in Journeys (this will be updated as the year progresses).
Language Arts:
* Reading textbook: Harcourt Journeys incorporates with the Texas State Standards and TEKS
Reading Outlook - 9 weeks: reading groups and placement will be based off of TPRI results (the groupings will be aligned with the results throughout the year where we re-look at results of the BOY, MOY, EOY). ALL 3rd graders will be touching on these skills/strategies/grammar skills
***NEW**** Lesson number will be put on the students weekly spelling list so that parents can identify which skill, strategy, and grammar we will be working on each week
TPRI at the BOY - given around (Sept 6-16)
Unit 2
- Lesson 6
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Target Strategy: Question
Grammar skill: verbs
- Lesson 7
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Grammar skill: Tense of a verb: present, past, or future
- Lesson 8
Target Skill: Conclusions
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Grammar skill: commas in a series: list three or more
- Lesson 9
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
Grammar skill: simple subject and simple predicate
- Lesson 10
Target Skill: Main idea and details
Target Strategy: summarize
Grammar skill: subject and object pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we) and (me, you him, her, us)
Unit 3 - 2nd Quarter
- Lesson 11
Target Skill: Fact and Opinion
Target Strategy: Question
Grammar skill: plural nouns
- Lesson 12
Target Skill: story structure
Target Strategy: visualize
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Grammar skill: Proper Nouns
- Lesson 13
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones/homographs
Grammar skill: subject-verb agreement
- Lesson 14
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: summarize
Vocabulary Strategy: prefixes in-, im- (meaning "not")
Grammar skill: Pronouns and Verbs
- Lesson 15
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategies: Using a thesaurus
Grammar skill: Forming past tense (verbs)
Unit 4
- Lesson 16
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Monitor/Clarify
Vocabulary Strategies: Context Clues
Grammar skill: What is an Adjective?
- Lesson 17
Target Skill: Conclusions
Target Strategy: Visualize
Vocabulary Strategies: suffix -ly
Grammar skill: Adjectives and Articles
- Lesson 18
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Target Strategy: Question
Vocabulary Strategies: Categorize and Classify
Grammar skill: Using the Verb be and Helping Verbs
- Lesson 19
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Summarize
Vocabulary Strategies: Prefixes pre- re- and -bi
Grammar skill: Irregular Verbs
- Lesson 20
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategies: Dictionary/Glossary
Grammar skill: Contractions
Unit 5
- Lesson 21
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy: Monitor/Clarify
Vocabulary Strategies: base words and Prefix - non-
Grammar skill: Possessive Nouns and Possessive Pronouns
- Lesson 22
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Visualize
Vocabulary Strategies: prefixes im- and in-
Grammar skill: Using Proper Nouns
- Lesson 23
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Vocabulary Strategies: suffixes -er and -est
Grammar skill:Abbreviations
- Lesson 23
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Question
Vocabulary Strategies: Words from other Languages
Grammar skill: What is an Adverb?
- Lesson 24
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategies: Analogies
Grammar skill: What is a preposition?
Unit 6
Writing Outlook:
Writing/Writing Process. Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text; Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary text to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Writing/Writing. Students write about their own experiences. Writing/Expository and Procedural Text. Students write expository and procedural or work related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes (ELA - CSCOPE YAG)
* NEW * writing topics per Quarter
1st Quarter- Writing Process
* Introduce the writing process
* Introduce the 6+ 1 writing traits
* Discuss how to work with a partner, evaluating your writing, building paragraphs
* Begin Descriptive writing
Fall - DWA was given around (Sept 30th) and was scored
2nd Quarter
* Continue Descriptive writing
* Introduce Narrative writing
3rd Quarter
* Expository Writing
* Persuasive Writing
2nd DWA - Diagnostic Writing Assessment will be given in the Spring before Annual ARD meetings
4th Quarter
* Response to a Paragraph
* Research process/Writing a research report
Math:
*Math Textbook - Envision by Pearson incorporates Texas State Standards and TEKS
Curriculum- CSCOPE is aligned with the Texas State Standards and TEKS
*** NEW *** Pearson Units
1st Quarter
Unit 1 Numeration
Unit 2 Adding Number Sense
Unit 3 Adding Whole Numbers and Solve Problems
Unit 4 Subtraction Number Sense
1-4 Benchmark Test was given after those units were taught
BOY - Beginning of the Year assessment will be given about (Sept 19-Sept 23)
2nd Quarter
Unit 5 Subtracting Whole Numbers and Solve Problems
Unit 6 Multiplication Meanings
Unit 7 Multiplication Fact Strategies - Use Patterns
Unit 8 Multiplication Fact Strategies - Use Known Facts
5 - 8 Benchmark test will be given after the units have been taught
3rd Quarter
Unit 9 Multiplication Patterns and Number Sense
Unit 10 Division Meanings and Facts
Unit 11 Fraction Concepts
Unit 12 Patterns and Relationships
9-12 benchmark test - will be given after these units are taught
MOY - Middle of the Year test will be given around (Jan 23 to Jan 27)
4th quarter
Unit 13 Whole numbers and Fractions on a number line
Unit 14 Solids and Shapes
Unit 15 Congruence and Symmetry
Unit 16 Estimating and Measuring Length
13-16 Benchmark test will be given after these units are taught
Unit 17 Perimeter and Area
Unit 18 Volume, Capacity, Weight and Mass
Unit 19 Time and Temperature
Unit 20 Data Graphs and Probability
17-20 Benchmark will be given after these units are taught
EOY - End of the Year test will also be given round (May 14 - May 18)
Science:
Curriculum- CSCOPE is aligned with the Texas State Standards and TEKS
Social Studies:
Curriculum- CSCOPE is aligned with the Texas State Standards and TEKS