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The big picture is that students will engage in informational text through science-based readings. There is a focus on Compare vs. Contrast, vocabulary, and narrative stories.

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This big picture in the Viking Age unit will provide students with opportunities to build content knowledge and draw connections to the social studies subject area.

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The big picture in unit 6 is to build knowledge about ancient civilizations by improving the skills of reading, spelling, grammar and morphology.

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Students will learn about the properties of light and sound, how light and sound travel in waves, and how light and sound can be manipulated by various instruments, such as magnifying glasses, microscopes, and telescopes. Understand the human body and the properties of light and sound Students should be able to draw connections to social studies and science subject areas.

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This unit is important to continue the build of knowledge of ancient civilizations that they will also be exposed to in 4th & 5th grade. The students will be exposed to fables under the fiction genre. They will be able to track characters through their stories. This would be a great space to expose students to plot and how to follow them throughout each character's journey.

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The big picture of this unit to learn about characters, character development and elements of mythology through information about Norse Myths. Students will also takeaway writing skills through opportunities where they can add text evidence.

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The big picture is to understand about mythology, specifically about Norse mythology. Engage on a problem based learning activity through the quest

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Grade 3 Unit 6 Lesson 1

For this particular unit the big picutre is that students will learn and understand civilizations and mythology. Students will make predictions, identify character traits, setting, plot and other important details. Students will make cross-curricular connections with other subjects such as Social Studies.

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The big picture is to understand civilizations and myths. This includes the key components of ancient civilizations and cross-curricular connections within Social Studies.

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Mythology- in particular Norse Mythology. Students will need to write, most of the activities and connected to the development of writing.

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Students will be learning about factual info about Vikings. They are expected to demonstrate their learning through writing, correct use of conjunctions as well as the correct tricky spelling for the sounds /k/ and /s/.

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I think the big picture is to build on their writing skills and engage their critical thinking skills by incorporating the quest.

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Students will work through reading comprehension of factual texts with several writing assignments.  Students will not have had opportunities from K-2 to build background knowledge of civilizations.  Teachers will need to supplement connections to missed prior knowledge.  One way they will do this is through more in depth practice with specific vocabulary.

Writing is a key component of this unit and students will engage in writing for various purposes through short and extended constructed responses.  They will get familiar with drafting through the use of graphic organizers and be able to work through analyzing their writing based on the rubric with peer feedback.

For ALL learners, we need to emphasize practice across speaking, listening, reading and writing.

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This unit is important because it explores the Vikings age period where students will understand the Vikings civilization including their language, culture, and everyday life.

The reader will support students' understanding of mythology.

The transferable skill that students will continue to develop will be key ideas and supporting details with text evidence.

This unit allows students to make connections with the Vikings through an interactive experience: The Quest. Students will go on journeys and explore as if they were a viking. This will support students’ understanding of the Vikings way of living and support the transferable skill of character analysis.

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the informational genre.

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This unit main focus overall is relationships among major and minor characters. The concepts, activities and exit ticket will be develop base on characters interactions. Diverse learners may require several supports, teachers may include prereaders of the texts, graphic organizers, include visuals during vocabulary internalization, concept walls more that vocabulary walls so students have access to what words to use while accessing the lessons. Read aloud, chunk texts, samples of annotation will help the students to understand the concepts. Also structured student engagement with sentences stems for interaction will allow students to participate freely and more comfortable in the lessons.

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Building background knowledge and add to the understanding of the adventure that took place as well as the interactions with pirates using visual supports.

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Grade 3rd | Unit 6

-Genre: Norse Mythology.

-Morphology: Use of suffixes (-ive & -ly)

-Grammar: Use of the conjunction 'because'

-Spelling: Use of spelling patterns (/s/ & /k/)

-Reading Skills: Making predictions, character traits, setting, plot, key ideas & details, cause and effect, citing evidence, identifying theme, summarizing by creating a comic book

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Build background knowledge and add to understanding of different civilizations, in this case Vikings by giving opportunities to write extended constructed responses. What our EB learners need is preteaching and visuals. In addition, for tier 1 instruction, adding opportunities to build missed skills from 2nd grade background knowledge.

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When preparing materials management for upcoming units, one way to support teachers is to identify who/how many Spanish speaking students may benefit from Spanish materials and monitor their progress accordingly by prepping translated readers and activity books

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Analyzing plot and characters, how they change, what text evidence supports these findings