Third grade students will identify and discuss facts and details from expository text and draw conclusions using textual evidence in learning stations.

Students will explore cause and effect relationships by creating different representations of a cause or an effect from a given scenario.

Students will focus on context clues in a vocabulary lesson.

Students will be able to identify cause and effect relationships using an expository text.

Students will practice using a protocol to create a summary of an expository text.

Students will work with partners, as well as independently, to create and evaluate summaries of expository text.

The students will watch the teacher model how to create a summary, and then work in groups to create a summary from an expository text.

The students will read and summarize expository text using a graphic organizer to aid the process.

In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to make inferences about the structure and elements of poetry, and provide textual evidence to support their understanding.

Students will identify explicit cause and effect relationships using keywords and phrases while reading relevant informational texts aligned with technology and current events.

Students will read a text, identify its organizational pattern, highlight signal words, create a visual representation/graphic organizer, and present to the class.

Students look for meaning in poems using poetry tools and work in groups to identify how parts of poems fit together to give a message. They then independently infer the message from a poem their teacher reads.