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Standard: NC 3rd Grade ELA

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 18:58:16 UTC

CCR Anchor Standard RL.7 – Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

RL.3.7 Identify parts of illustrations or tactual information that depicts a particular setting or event.

Primary focus: Setting

Goals:

Students can identify key aspects of settings
Students can explain how the setting affects a story
Students can create visual representations of specific places/settings within stories
Students are practicing reading and writing skills while partaking in fun and engaging activities

Concepts

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 19:04:17 UTC

Size/Dimension
Shape
Object
Structure
Location
Significance
Color
Environment
Texture
Versatility

Quality Questions

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 19:12:38 UTC

What elements of the setting are most important to the story?
What everyday object does this material remind you of?
How could this material be used to represent or depict something else?
How would your artwork look different if the plot of the story took place in a different setting? (Example: "at the beach")
What's a different material you could replace this one with?

Reading stories and building fairy houses

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 20:11:16 UTC

As a class, we will read the book "Fiona Builds a Fairy House," which depicts a young girl's quest to gather materials, recruit helpers, and craft a fairy house. Students will then have the opportunity to flip through images of various fairy house designs in the book "Fairy Houses Everywhere!"

Using the provided materials and tips/inspiration from the books, students will work in pairs to craft their own fairy houses. Following this activity, students will write a paragraph describing their artistic choices and what elements of Fiona's home are similar or different from their fairy houses.

This experience will improve students' reading and comprehension skills and ability to identify key elements that make up a particular setting (Fiona's fairy house). It will also test students' fine motor and structural/design skills and allow them to use their imaginations and creative liberties to design their dream fairy homes.

Audio story and drawing

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 20:31:51 UTC

After watching the video "The City Mouse And The Country Mouse" as a class, students will individually use crayons, markers, and colored pencils to draw a city or country landscape. Each student's drawing should incorporate three key setting elements that they saw in the video, such as storefronts, restaurants, fields, trees, apartment buildings, etc.

This experience incorporates technology, which can make learning more fun and engaging. The activity tests students' recall skills and understanding of the story's setting.

Chapter book reading and adventure map creation

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 21:04:02 UTC

After having read the story "Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World," students will use materials to draw an adventure map, similar to the one mentioned in the story, incorporating four places that Sydney and Taylor traveled. Students should include one place they've been or would like to visit on their map. Additionally, students can use glue and other materials to make their maps 3Dimensional.

The chapter book is entertaining, shares valuable life lessons, encourages being adventurous, and will help students practice reading long-form stories. The creative map activity will help students differentiate settings within the book and allow them to reflect on their own relationship to travel. This hands-on, engaging learning activity will also challenge students to mix 2D and 3D mediums and create an organized, creative, and visually appealing product.

Creating dioramas of spaces within a school

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 21:11:53 UTC

After reading "This is a School" as a class, students will replicate a space from the story in a diorama- using cut open tissue boxes, glue, and other recycled/collected materials.

This activity will test students' design skills and promote divergent thinking by pushing kids to think outside the box about how to use and manipulate the provided materials to represent common objects within their chosen in-school setting.

Story postcards

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 21:48:18 UTC

Students will select one of these two books to read individually. After finishing the book, students will be given blank "postcards," and drawing and writing materials. On one side of the card, students will draw either an image representing three distinctive traits/landmarks within their selected book or a scene from the book. On the back of the postcard, students will in detail describe the setting or event they drew.

This independent task promotes curiosity and teaches students about cool places in the US; it also teaches agency because students have a choice in picking a book and whether to draw places and a scene/event from the book. While reading, students are simultaneously practicing identifying key details related to a setting or event, which they will incorporate in their picture and practice describing in their writing portion of the assignment.

Construction Paper

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:08:07 UTC

Construction paper can be used in nearly any craft. Within the activities I planned, it will act as the background for the 3d map and city/country drawings. It can also be folded or cut and glued to add details to the fairy houses, school dioramas, and postcards.

Blank Postcards

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:08:32 UTC

Blank postcards can be used in art projects, allowing kids to practice their drawing and writing skills. Students can use postcards to write letters, or like in the activity I created, students will draw and describe locations of places they read about.

Crayons, Markers, and Colored Pencils

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:08:51 UTC

Coloring utensils can be used for free drawing or in all sorts of guided activities; they add color and life to students' work and can even make normal writing activities more fun.

Rocks and Pebbles

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:09:32 UTC

Rocks and pebbles can add texture and dimension to students' projects. Rocks are also very versatile materials; in the activities I created, students can use rocks as objects like furniture or walkways in their fairy homes and school dioramas or can be glued onto their adventure maps to represent hideaways or mountains.

Fake Flowers

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:10:03 UTC

Fake flowers add color, texture, and personality to artwork and can be used in many ways in creative projects. In the experiences I designed, students can use them to create gardens next to their fairy houses or glue them to their postcards, adventure maps, or country drawings.

Bottle Caps

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:10:30 UTC

Bottle caps are a great material because they are free recycled objects that can add dimension, shape, color, and texture to art pieces. Caps can be used to make murals, build structures, or act as furniture in building/design projects.

Scissors and Glue

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:11:38 UTC

Scissors and glue enable piecing objects together and are essential tools in most crafting projects.

Play Doh

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:13:16 UTC

Play-Doh is not only super fun but can be used for a large variety of purposes, such as building 3D structures, objects, characters/animals, etc. Play-Doh can bring artwork to life by adding shape, dimension, color, and texture.

Pinecones

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:14:02 UTC

Pinecones add fun texture, shape, and size to art projects and can bring elements of the outdoors to pieces. In the activities I curated, students can use pinecones to represent mountains on their 3D maps or to decorate and enhance the environment surrounding their fairy houses.

Buttons

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:14:13 UTC

While buttons are traditionally used in sewing projects, they can be used in all sorts of other creative endeavors. Buttons have unique colors, shapes, sizes, and textures and can represent common objects like wheels, chairs, clocks, etc.

Popsicle Sticks

karat050505 — 2025-02-26 22:14:46 UTC

Popsicle sticks are particularly useful in crafts that involve building structures. In the activities I designed, students can use this material to provide structural support to their fairy houses or build benches or tables in their dioramas. Popsicle sticks glued into picture frames are also an easy way to display student artwork.

Empty Tissue Boxes

karat050505 — 2025-02-27 13:18:53 UTC

Empty tissue boxes are another free and recycled material that is perfect for cutting open and using to build dioramas. They can also be repurposed in other ways; for example, they could be used as life-sized building blocks.