Project Achieve helps Hodge Road Elementary focus on student achievement - Extension Activities
Third Grade
Language Arts
Extension Activities for Focus Lessons
Second Quarter
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Week 1 Objective: 2.086 Materials: detailed picture, paper, pencil Students will study picture carefully to discover a main idea. Next, write supporting details. Share and explain reasoning. |
Week 2 Objective: 2.086 Materials: main ideas written on small strips of paper Students play charades. Students work in teams or individually. Students draw one main idea strip from a container. Students plan and act out supporting details to enable peers to determine the main idea. Some examples: planting a garden, getting new shoes |
Week 3 Objectives: 2.021, 2.023 materials: comic strips (preferably in color) Students will receive a comic strip with the ending omitted. They will predict and draw the ending. Next, have students draw comic strip. Omit ending, exchange with peers and draw outcome. |
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Week 4 Objectives: 1.02, 1.05, 1.03 Materials: paper, pencil, dictionaries Students will make a dictionary by writing a definition for words with suffixes and prefixes. Make up five of your own words by combining root words with customary prefixes and suffixes. Ex. coolability-condition of being cool. Trade with a partner and write a definition for their words. |
Week 5 Objectives: 4.025, 2.084, 4.021, and 4.025 Materials: Sentence strips, paper, markers, pencils Each pair of students will make a list of words that indicate a sequence (such as tomorrow, in the future, eventually, soon, etc.) Students will write a paragraph sequencing events in their life using these words. Give five sentence strips to each group of students. Students write a paragraph using words that indicate a sequence on the sentence strips. Groups trade sentence strips and place them in logical order. Share with class. |
Week 6 Objectives: 1.06 Materials: pencil, paper, dictionaries Students work in pairs to look up words that have multiple meanings (ex. diamond). Using the "how to use the dictionary" pages, have students identify all symbols and etymologies they find. Students create a chart to show what they have learned and share with the group. |
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Week 7 Objectives: 3.05 Materials: newspaper, pencil, paper, chart paper Students use a current local newspaper and identify an article related to local issues. Design a chart with a partner that shows connections before, during and after reading. Present the chart to show what was learned. |
Week 8 Objectives: 2.082, 2.083, 4.025 Materials: fairy tales or tall tales book, pencil, paper, drawing paper Working in pairs, pick a fairy tale or tall tale of interest. Students decide how to represent the plot, conflict, and resolution without writing (options may include drawing or pantomime). All three elements should be represented. Each team shares. Students evaluate and discuss how well all elements were represented and clarified. |
Week 9 Objectives: 2.03 Materials: fairy tales Pairs of students will compare the narrative text (beginning-middle-end, plot, repetition, setting, characters, theme, or point of view) of different versions of a favorite fairy tale. Ex. Cinderella. Each pair of students will rewrite their own version by changing two or three of the seven main elements of narrative text. |
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Extension Activities
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