ELA21.3.R3

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, reading, and writing will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.

Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Aligned Learning Resources

Animal Adaptions for Grades 3-5
Diverting Disaster With Lightning Rods
Can an Animal's Traits be Influenced by the Environment?
Evaluating the Design of a Dam
Mapping the Travels of Paul Bunyan Through Alabama, Too!
Cause and Effect of Dams
Exploring Nonfiction Texts to Determine How Climate Impacts Different Weather Phenomenon
People Things- The Power of Personification in Literature
The Other Side of the Fence: Point of View at the Zoo
Storytelling: Oral Traditions
Radly the ReadBot
Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
Dynamite Diamante Poetry
All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through a Poetry Link
Alliteration All Around
Daily Book Boosts
Descriptive Video: Using Media Technology to Enhance Writing
Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
Searching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
What If We Changed the Book? Problem-Posing With Sixteen Cows
Weather Detectives: Questioning the Fact and Folklore of Weather Sayings
Peace Poems and Picasso Doves: Literature, Art, Technology, and Poetry
Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing With Adjectives and Synonyms
Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
The Power of Teamwork Assessment
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