Third grade ela

Here in third grade, we practice fluency daily with: -Word Lists -Phrase Lists -Passages/Running Records My Mental Journey I have had a love-hate relationship with fluency. As a third grade teacher, my students are subject to end of year, high-stakes testing for the first time. Fluency is not tested on these exams, students have

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Do you use a yearly pacing guide? It is so handy to have a map of how you plan to fit the various standards into your academic year. Things WILL change, but it nice to have some idea of where you'd like to be with your instruction. I think that it makes lesson

Congratulations fifth grade teacher! Fifth graders are very independent and curious. They have such fun personalities starting to emerge and are beginning to act like miniature adults. I love their sense of humor! Now that you know you will be teaching fifth grade, you are probably starting to wonder what resources you might want to

Narrative writing lesson plans for third grade! The best mentor texts, story prompts and lesson ideas to keep students engaged and get them ready to write creative stories.

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It's Spring! Hallelujah! The praise team at my church allowed the little ones to come up and play "drums" for this song. How cute! G...

Are you looking for engaging 3rd Grade ELA spiral review that can also be used for morning work? Well, here you go teacher friend! The purpose of this language spiral review resource is to give Grade 3 students on-going practice with several different ELA/ literacy skills such as phonics, reading, writing, poetry, word work, grammar, and more. These spiral review worksheets + Google Slides can be completed in a variety of ways in Third Grade classrooms. Each sheet offers a layout that allows…