Learning Through Writing Grade 3

The Complete Canadian Curriculum series of books covers key subject areas: Math, English, Science, History, Geography and Social Studies. The curriculum-based practice units are designed to ensure that your child understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills. With vivid illustrations and interesting activities, children find working through Complete Canadian Curriculum both fun and rewarding. Inside Complete Canadian Curriculum Grade 3 workbook: Mathematics worksheets cover numbers to 1000, addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers, addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers, length, distance, perimeter, area, time, temperature, money, addition and subtraction with money, capacity, mass, multiplication, division, fractions, 2-D shapes, 3-D figures, locations of shapes and objects, transformations, patterns, graphs, and probability. English worksheets cover consonants, vowels, rhyming words, nouns, sentence types, subjects and predicates, punctuation, past tense verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, contractions, abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes, compound words, synonyms, antonyms, and conjunctions. Social Studies worksheets cover heritage and identity: communities in Canada, 1780- 1850, people and environments, etc. Science worksheets cover plants, leaves and flowers, the needs of plants, pollination, seed dispersal, plants life cycles, uses of plants, endangered plants or invasive plants, rainforests, force as a push or pull, forces and movement, gravity, friction, magnets, magnetic poles, stability, levers, soil, soil erosion, earthworms, creatures that use soil, and compost.

WINNER OF THE 2009 ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS' DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND THE 2010 TEACHERS' CHOICE AWARD FOR THE CLASSROOM! Use writing to teach the content areas! Check students content-area knowledge, writing skills, and critical thinking at the same time! Fun, authentic writing activities for language arts, math, science, social studies, and health/nutrition take students through the entire writing process, from brainstorming to publishing, while letting imaginations soar. This content-area writing series includes one grade-level book each for third, fourth, and fifth grade, offering the flexibility to pick from a variety of activities. Choose the activities from each grade that appeal most to your students, or use only the book for your grade to match your students skill levels and target grade-appropriate content-area topics and writing skills. Each ready-to-go activity includes lesson plans, extensions, rubrics, student worksheets, and examples clearly lists objectives, materials and teacher preparation needed, and what prior knowledge and skills are being targeted is easily di fferentiated to meet students needs can be used on its own, with other content-area activities, or as class time allows connects to national content-area and writing standards reflects grade-appropriate language and writing skills Publishing ideas, bibliographies, student checklists, and correlations to commonly taught writing standards and craft skills make this resource complete and easy to use. You ll never run out of authentic ways to make learning through writing fun.

Spectrum(R) Writing for grade 3 guides students through each step of the writing process as they write paragraphs, personal narratives, fiction stories, descriptive comparisons, news reports, how-to instructions, persuasive letters, and more. Spectrum(R) Writing workbooks guide students as they write for a variety of purposes, including writing to tell a story, writing to provide information, and writing to state an opinion. Lessons support current state standards. Step-by-step instructions help with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. A Writer’s Handbook reinforces grammar and language skills, and a complete Answer Key is included. Engaging, open-ended writing projects combined with standards-based learning make these workbooks an essential resource for school success. Spectrum(R), the best-selling workbook series, is proud to provide quality educational materials that support your students’ learning achievement and success.

From fairy tales to five-paragraph essays, Kumon Writing Workbooks offer a complete program to improve the development and organization of ideas and expand vocabulary. Our fun and innovative exercises inspire creativity and the desire to write.

This workbook is designed to reinforce specific writing skills including personal narrative, informative writing, descriptive writing, comparative writing, and writing a short report.

Is it possible to sneak more writing into your already-jammed curriculum? Yes! With this cache of classroom-tested ideas, you have all you need to make writing-to-learn a daily habit for students that deepens their content understanding and creates learners ready to take on all of the world’s information. Smuggling Writing shows how to integrate writing seamlessly into your lesson plans with 32 written response activities that help students process information and ideas in short, powerful sessions. The authors invigorate time-tested tools like GIST, Herringbone, and Anticipation Guides, and organize them into sections on Vocabulary and Concept Development, Comprehension, Discussion, and Research & Inquiry so you can select and use them to maximum effect. Here are the success-ensuring how-to’s that accompany each strategy: A step-by-step process ensures students use the strategy before, during, and after reading/learning so they "own" the strategy and can track their thinking Engaging digital applications, including Story Impression with Bubbl.us, Reading Road Map with Prezi, Possible Solutions with Padlet, CLVG with Brain Pop Sample lessons showing both traditional and online formats, taking the guess work out of trying these new digital tools Ideas for "smuggling" additional writing opportunities into or after the lessons, ensuring that students’ writing skills improve Connections to Common Core State Standards With all the heady talk of what it’s going to take for students to read, write, and analyze across multiple sources, it’s nice to know that there is a book that shows how big gains will come from "writing small" day by day.

Develop your grade 3 students' writing skills in each of the six traits--Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions--using 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute writing lessons. - 125 trait-based lessons - 25 weeks of instruction - Each weekly unit includes: -teacher lesson plan -4 reproducible student pages -writing prompt - Supports any writing program - Models many forms of writing - Teacher rubric