Norris School District, Curriculum

Language Arts Communication 3

TEXTBOOK

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DESCRIPTION

                Language Arts Communication is integrated through out the day and required of all third grade                 students.  Students are involved daily communication activities such as journal writing, editing,   creative writing, responding to questions, both orally and in writing, and discussion of curriculum                 materials.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1.                   Students will retell events in own words.  (4.3.1)

2.                   Students will generate questions related to the topic.  (4.2.5)

3.                   Students will listen and respond to a wide variety of literature, speakers, and content areas.  (4.4.1)

4.                   Students will respond to and clarify questions related to a topic.  (4.3.1)

5.                   Students will use commas in a series and after noun of address.  (4.2.1)

6.                   Students will identify sentences (statement, question, and exclamation) and use appropriate punctuation.  (4.2.1)

7.                   Students will demonstrate suffixes and prefixes applying spelling changes in base words (y to i, double final consonant, drop final 3).  (4.2.1)

8.                   Students will write sentences using correct capitalization (beginning, pronouns, proper nouns, dates, titles).  (4.2.1)

9.                   Students will write sentences using and identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives.  (4.2.1)

10.                Students will use Target spelling lists.

11.                Students will demonstrate correct cursive writing. 

12.                Students will use index cards to organize research topics.  (4.2.5)

WRITING ACTIVITIES

                See course objectives.

MULTICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

1.        Students will participate in oral discussions and respond to questions related to multicultural multimedia presentations and literature.