English Language Arts
3RL.2 Key Ideas and Details
- Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
3RL.5 Craft and Structure
- Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Writing
3.W.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Lessons 14-17
Book Reviews on KidBlog
In collaboration with 3rd Grade Team
Activities
I will...read a picture book aloud and model writing a review.
I will... introduce blogs
I will...walk students through finding their blog, changing their password, and recording their parent code, wrtiting their draft and adding the picutre of the book cover.
Students will...read a picture book.
Students will... blog their review writing a summary and stating their opinions supported with examples from the text.
Students will...import a picture of the book cover and save as a draft.
Classroom teacher will...edit and make recommendations.
30 minute class
15 minute circ
Vocabulary
blog
review
summary
opinion
evidence
support
edit
draft
research
source
notes
culture
bibliography
citations
plagiarism
guide words
pronunciation
parts of speech
noun
verb
adjective
adverb
notes
phrases
fact
fiction
nonfiction
opinion
dictionary
encyclopedia
main idea
boolean searching
lexiles
call number