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Resources for Grades 3-4

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Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms

It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.

 

Student Interactives

 

Compare & Contrast Map

Compare & Contrast Map

The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.

 

 

My Family Traditions: A Class Book and a Potluck Lunch

After analyzing Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza, students create a class book with artwork and information about their ancestry, traditions, and recipes, followed by a potluck lunch.

 

 

Timeline

Timeline

Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).

 
 

 

Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry

Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.

 

 

ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool

ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool

The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.

 
 

 

Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events

Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.

 

 

Venn Diagram, 2 Circles

Venn Diagram, 2 Circles

This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.

 
 

 

Professional Development  

Reading and Writing Nonfiction Genres

Reading and Writing Nonfiction Genres

This practical, hands-on text shows how to teach nonfiction to elementary students.

 

"Honoring Children’s Names and, Therefore, Their Identities"

"Honoring Children’s Names and, Therefore, Their Identities"

In this issue, we are excited to present diverse voices—teachers, family members, children—to help us answer that question. Their stories reveal ways that communities of practice can positively or negatively affect students’ and families’ views of themselves and, in the process, children’s lives as learners.