Teacher Name: Washington

3rd Grade
How will we assess the success of meeting the
learning target?
TX treasures Unit 3 Weekly assessment
Tim
e

Week of:

9/19-9/23

Genre Focus:
Expository

What big questions will we

ask?
What does all of the important
characters have in common

Balanced
Literacy
Components

Monday

Tuesday

Shared
Reading

Weekly Poem:
Weekly Book: Earth Smart
TEKS/Obj.: 3.13 D
TEKS/Obj.: 3.8 A
analyze, make inferences
Sequence and summarize
and draw conclusions
the plots main event.
about and understand
ELPS: Use prior
expository text and
knowledge and
provide evidence from
experiences to
text to support their
understand meaning in
understanding
English
ELPS: Use prior
Book/Materials:
knowledge and
Earth Smart
experiences to
Instructional Input:
understand meaning in
How do green schools
English
help the environment
Book/Materials:
Play Ball, Biggest
Guided Practice
Elementary schools,
Review the definitions for
Freedom Fighters
the week using the
Instructional Input:
Thesaurus
What do you think a
school should look like?
Guided Practice Read
page 66 & 67 and
discuss what is taking
Read 44-47
place in the picture.
Define the words
discussion, goal and
project. Explain the Main
Idea and Details on
practice book Page 24.
Read 68-69

Vocabulary
Donate, unaware,
members, contribute

Comprehension
Strategy/Skill:
Main Idea and Details

Weekly Theme:
Earth smart

What materials, additional resources, anchor charts

will we use?

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

TEKS/Obj: 3.8 A
Sequence and summarize
the plots main event.
ELPS: Use prior
knowledge and
experiences to
understand meaning in
English.
Book/Materials:
Earth Smart
Instructional Input:
What are the main ideas
in Play Ball: and Earth
Smart? What opinions do
both writers share?

TEKS/Obj.: 3.8 A
Sequence and summarize
the plots main event.
ELPS: Use prior
knowledge and
experiences to
understand meaning in
English
Book/Materials:
Earth Smart

TEKS/Obj.: 3.8 A
Sequence and summarize
the plots main event.
ELPS Use prior
knowledge and
experiences to
understand meaning in
English
Book/Materials:
Earth Smart
Instructional Input: Use
details from the articles to
describe how green
schools differ from other
schools

Guided Practice Cause

and Effect SW create word
squares for each
vocabulary in the journal.
Help students generate
synonyms for related
words

Instructional Input:
Compare ad contrast
regular schools with yearround schools. How are
they alike? How are they
different?
Guided Practice Using
a Dictionary
Review the weeks vocab
using sentence stems pg
77H TE

Read48-51

Read 52-57

Guided Practice
Complete assessment
Display Transparency 6
and have students
complete cloze sentences
using one of the weeks
vocabulary.
Have students find
synonyms for smile and
house.

IP

Student Book page 24

Student Book page 25

Student book page 28

Answer questions
Summer Break pg 7475

Student book page 30

Phonics/
Vocabul
ary

TEKS/Obj.:3.1 Decode
words by applying
common spelling
patterns
3.4 C Identify and use

TEKS/Obj.:3.4 A
Identify the meaning of
common prefixes and
know how they change
the meaning of roots.

TEKS/Obj. 3.4 A
Identify the meaning of
common prefixes and
know how they change
the meaning of roots.

TEKS/Obj. 3.4 A
Identify the meaning of
common prefixes and
know how they change
the meaning of roots.

TEKS/Obj. 3.4 A
Identify the meaning of
common prefixes and
know how they change
the meaning of roots.

Read
Aloud
/
Modeled
Reading
What is our
comprehensio
n
focus?
What text will
we use?
What
vocabulary will
we use or
introduce?

synonyms
Focus: long a
TE 67C67D practice
book pg 21&22

Focus: long a
TE 67C67D practice
book pg 21&22

Focus: long a
TE 67C67D practice
book pg 21&22

Focus: long a
TE 67C67D practice
book pg 21&22

Focus: long a
TE 67C67D practice
book pg 21&22

TEKS/Obj.: Fig 19 (A)

Establish purposes for
reading selected texts
based upon content to
enhance comprehension.
ELP Obj.: 4F use visual
and contextual support
from peers and teachers
to read grade level
appropriate content-area
text.

Fig 19 (A) Establish

purposes for reading
selected texts based upon
content to enhance
comprehension.
ELP Obj.: 4F use visual
and contextual support
from peers and teachers
to read grade level
appropriate content-area
text.

Fig 19 (A) Establish

purposes for reading
selected texts based upon
content to enhance
comprehension.
ELP Obj.: 4F use visual
and contextual support
from peers and teachers
to read grade level
appropriate content-area
text.

Fig 19 (A) Establish

purposes for reading
selected texts based upon
content to enhance
comprehension.
ELP Obj.: 4F use visual
and contextual support
from peers and teachers
to read grade level
appropriate content-area
text.

Fig 19 (A) Establish

purposes for reading
selected texts based upon
content to enhance
comprehension.
ELP Obj.: 4F use visual
and contextual support
from peers and teachers
to read grade level
appropriate content-area
text.

II: Read The name of

the Tree TE 103-108
Anthology pages 38-40.
GP: Discuss Vocabulary
using the Define,
Example, Ask on page
TE 67A

II: Read Earth Smart

70-73
GP: Have students
identify synonyms for
this this weeks
vocabulary words
Transparency 5 or
student book 68-68

II: Read Earth Smart

70-73
GP: Comprehension
Check 73 and review
cause and effect

II: Read pages 74-75

Summer Break with the
students and model
thinking.

Self-Selected Reading

GP: using a dictionary or

glossary to determine the
meaning syllabication and
pronunciation of unknown
words.
Pages 73 C