2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

AU G U S T 2 0 1 6
Sun

Mon

Units of Instruction
Unit 1.A: Through the genre of
Realistic Fiction, students will
learn to ask questions specific to
the genre, compare plots in
several different texts, and
describe
main
characters.
Students will also identify authors
craft through inference, summary,
characterizations, first and third
person narrator, use ideas to
make and confirm predictions and
identify language that create a
visual
graphic
experience.
Students will respond to text and
create personal narratives.

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

Unit 1.A: Literary Text

Realistic Fiction

28
Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

29

30

31

Unit 1.A: Literary Text

Realistic Fiction

Teacher Service Days

Teacher Preparation Days
Make-up Days (if needed)

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pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

SEPTEMBER 2016
Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Units of Instruction
Unit 1.B: Through the genre of
Biography
and
autobiography,
students will learn to ask questions
specific to the genre, paraphrase the
themes and supporting details, explain
the difference in point of view between a
biography and an autobiography, make
inferences
and,
summarize
and
paraphrase texts. Students will respond
to text and create personal narratives .
Unit 1.C: Through the genre of
Expository text, students will learn to
discuss main idea and distinguish it from
the topic, details or state facts, and
explain the author's purpose in writing
the text, also the order of events,
summary and inferences using textual
evidence. Students will respond to text
and
create
an
expository
text,
establishing a central idea in a topic
sentence.

Snapshot Assessment 1
Reading
Sept.20-23

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Sat

Unit 1.A: Literary Text

Realistic Fiction

11

12
Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

18

10

14

15

16

17

21

22

23

24

28

29

30

Unit 1.A: Literary Text

Realistic Fiction

Labor
Day

Snapshot Assessment 1
Writing
Sept. 28-30

Teacher Service Days

Fri

19

13

Unit 1.B: Literary Nonfiction

20

Unit 1.B: Literary Nonfiction

25

26

27

Teacher Preparation Days

Make-up Days (if needed)

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pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

Unit 1.C: Informational Text: Expository

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

O C TO B E R 2 0 1 6
Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Units of Instruction
Unit 1.C: Through the genre of
Expository text, students will learn to
discuss main idea and distinguish it from
the topic, details or state facts, and
explain the author's purpose in writing
the text, also the order of events,
summary and inferences using textual
evidence. Students will respond to text
and
create
an
expository
text,
establishing a central idea in a topic
sentence..
Unit 2.A: Through the genre of
Poetry, students will learn to identify
of various forms of poetry, words and
figures of speech such as similes and
metaphors, language that creates a
graphic visual experience appealing to
the senses, summarization and
inferences providing textual evidences.
Students will respond to text and write
poems that convey sensory details and
conventions of poetry.

Snapshot Assessment 2
Reading
Oct. 25-27

12

13

14

15

21

22

Unit 1.C: Informational Text Expository

10

11

Fall Holiday

Unit 1.C: Informational Text

Expository

16

17

Unit 1.C: Informational Text

Expository

18

Unit 1.C: Informational Text Expository

23

24

25

19

20

Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

End of
1st Cycle

26

27

28

Unit 2.A: Poetry

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Teacher Service Days
Teacher Preparation Days
Make-up Days (if needed)

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pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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30

31

29

Unit 2.A:
Poetry

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

N OV E M B E R 2 0 1 6
Sun

Mon

Tue

Units of Instruction
Unit 2.A: Through the genre of Poetry,
students will learn to identify of various forms of
poetry, words and figures of speech such as
similes and metaphors, language that creates a
graphic visual experience appealing to the
senses, summarization and inferences providing
textual evidences. Students will respond to text
and write poems that convey sensory details and
conventions of poetry.
Unit 2.B: Through the genre of ExpositoryProcedural text, students will learn to ask,
questions, seek clarification, locate facts and
details, topic, locate the author's stated purposes,
details or facts, text features, follow and explain a
set of written multi-step directions, summarize,
make inferences using textual evidence and
make connections. Students will respond to text
and create a brief compositions that include
supporting sentences with simple facts, details,
and explanations.

Snapshot Assessment 3
Reading
Nov. 9-11
Snapshot Assessment 2
Writing
Nov. 16-18

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

10

11

12

15

16

17

18

19

24

25

26

Unit 2.A:Poetry

7
Unit 2.A:Poetry

13

14
Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

20

Unit 2.B: Informational Text Procedural text

21

22

Unit 2.B: Informational Text

Procedural text

23
Thanksgiving
Holiday

Thanksgiving
Holiday

Thanksgiving
Holiday

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Teacher Service Days
Teacher Preparation Days
Make-up Days (if needed)

27

28

29

30

Unit 2.B: Informational Text Procedural

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

DECEMBER 2016
Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Unit 2.C: Through the genre of Realistic

Fiction, students will learn to make and
confirm predictions, ask questions, seek
clarification, and locate facts and details,
sequence and summarize the plot's main
events, identify interaction of characters,
order events in chronological order, and
whether the narrator is first or third person.
Students will respond to text and write
about important personal experiences .

Unit 2.B: Informational

Text Procedur-

11

12

Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

10

13

14

15

16

17

Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

Unit 2.C: Realistic Fiction

19
Winter Break

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Unit 2.C: Realistic Fiction

18

Teacher Service Days

Sat

Units of Instruction
Unit 2.B: Through the genre of
Expository-Procedural text, students
will learn to ask, questions, seek
clarification, locate facts and details, topic,
locate the author's stated purposes,
details or facts, text features, follow and
explain a set of written multi-step
directions, summarize, make inferences
using textual evidence and make
connections. Students will respond to text
and create a brief compositions that
include supporting sentences with simple
facts, details, and explanations.

Fri

25

26

20
Winter Break

27

21
Winter Break

22
Winter Break

28

29

End of
2nd Cycle

23

24

Winter Break

30

31

Teacher Preparation Days

Make-up Days (if needed)

Winter Break

Winter Break

Winter Break

Winter Break

Winter Break

This document offers suggestions for

pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

J A N U A RY 2 0 1 7
Sun
Units of Instruction
Unit 3.A: Through the genre of
Expository text, students will learn to
discuss main idea and distinguish it from
the topic, details or state facts and,
locate and use specific information in
graphic features, also the order of
events, summary and inferences using
evidence and, make connections
between literary and informational texts
with similar ideas. Students will respond
to text and create an expository text.
Unit 3.B: Through the genre of
Biography
and
Autobiography,
students will learn to ask questions
specific to the genre, paraphrase the
themes and supporting details, explain
the difference in point of view between a
biography and an autobiography, make
inferences
and,
summarize
and
paraphrase texts and, make connections
between texts. Students will respond to
text and write letters.

Mon

Thu

Fri

Sat

Unit 3.A: Informational TextExpository

10

11

12

13

14

18

19

20

21

26

27

28

Unit 3.A: Informational TextExpository

15

16
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day

22

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Wed

Winter Break

Snapshot Assessment 4
Reading
Jan. 25-27

Teacher Service Days

Tue

17

Unit 3.A: Informational Text Expository

23

24

Unit 3.A: Informational Text Expository

29

30

31

25

Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

30

Teacher Preparation Days

Make-up Days (if needed)

Unit 3.B:Literary nonfiction

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pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

F E B R U A RY 2 0 1 7
Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Units of Instruction
Unit 3.B: Through the genre of
Biography
and
Autobiography,
students will learn to ask questions
specific to the genre, paraphrase the
themes and supporting details, explain
the difference in point of view between a
biography and an autobiography, make
inferences
and,
summarize
and
paraphrase texts and, make connections
between texts. Students will respond to
text and write letters.
Unit 3.C:
Through the genre of
Poetry, students will learn to identify
of various forms of poetry, words and
figures of speech such as similes and
metaphors, language that creates a
graphic visual experience appealing to
the
senses,
summarization
and
inferences providing textual evidences.
Students will respond to text and write
poems.

Snapshot Assessment 3
Writing
Feb. 13-15

Thu

Fri

Sat

10

11

Unit 3.B: Literary nonfiction

8
Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

Unit 3.B: Literary nonfiction

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

21

22

23

24

25

Unit 3.C: Poetry

19

20
Unit 3.C: Poetry

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Teacher Service Days

26

27

28

Teacher Preparation Days

Make-up Days (if needed)

Unit 3.C: Poetry

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pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

MARCH 2017
Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Units of Instruction
Unit 3.C: Through the genre of
Poetry, students will learn to identify
of various forms of poetry, words and
figures of speech such as similes and
metaphors, language that creates a
graphic visual experience appealing to
the
senses,
summarization
and
inferences providing textual evidences.
Students will respond to text and write
poems.

Unit 4.A: Through the genre of

Expository text-Persuasive, students
will learn to ask relevant questions, draw
conclusions, and text features, Identify
what the author is trying to persuade the
reader to think or do, locate and use
specific information in graphic features of
text, summarizing and making inferences
providing a textual evidence. Students will
respond to text and write a letter and a
persuasive expository text, establishing a
central idea in a topic sentence .

Fri

Sat

10

11

Unit 3.C : Poetry

7
Extend
Review
Assess
Reteach

Unit 3.C : Poetry

12

13
Spring
Break

19
Snapshot Assessment 5
Reading
Mar. 6-8

14
Spring
Break

20

End of
3rd Cycle

15
Spring
Break

21

16

17

18

23

24

25

30

31

Spring
Break

22

Spring
Break

Unit 4.A: Informational Text: Expository Persuasive

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Teacher Service Days
Teacher Preparation Days
Make-up Days (if needed)

26

27

28

29

Unit 4.A: Informational Text: ExpositoryPersuasive

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pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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STAAR Assessments

Houston ISD Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment 2016-2017

2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

APRIL 2017
Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Units of Instruction
Unit 4.A: Through the genre of Expository
text-Persuasive, students will learn to ask
relevant questions, draw conclusions, and text
features, Identify what the author is trying to
persuade the reader to think or do, locate and
use specific information in graphic features of
text, summarizing and making inferences
providing a textual evidence. Students will
respond to text and write a letter and a
persuasive expository text, establishing a central
idea in a topic sentence .

13

14

15

21

22

28

29

Unit 4.A: Informational Text: ExpositoryPersuasive

Unit 4.B: Through the genre of Folktales,
Myths, and Legends, students will learn to
paraphrase the themes and supporting details,
compare and contrast the settings in myths and
traditional folktales, sequence and/or summarize
the plot's main events, describe the interaction of
characters, identify whether the narrator or
speaker of a story is first or third person,
summarize, paraphrase, and make inferences
providing textual evidence. Students will respond
to text and write imaginative stories .

Snapshot Assessment 6
Reading
Apr. 10-12
Snapshot Assessment 4
Writing
Apr. 17-19

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Teacher Service Days
Teacher Preparation Days
Make-up Days (if needed)

This document offers suggestions for

pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

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10

11

12

Unit 4.A: Informational Text: ExpositoryPersuasive

16

17

18

Extend
Review
Assess

23
________
30

24

19

Spring
Holiday

20

Unit 4..B: Fiction (Folktales, Myths, Legends)

25

26

27

Unit 4.B: Fiction (Folktales, Myths, Legends)

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2016-2017 Pacing Calendar English Language Arts and Reading Third Grade

M AY 2 0 1 7
Sun

Mon

Tue

Units of Instruction
Unit 4.B: Through the genre of
Folktales, Myths, and Legends,
students will learn to paraphrase the
themes and supporting details, compare
and contrast the settings in myths and
traditional folktales, sequence and/or
summarize the plot's main events, describe
the interaction of characters, identify
whether the narrator or speaker of a story
is first or third person, summarize,
paraphrase, and make inferences
providing textual evidence. Students will
respond to text and write imaginative
stories .
Unit 4.C: . Through the genre of Drama,
students will learn to make and confirm
predictions, explain the elements of plot
and character as presented through
dialogue, identify language that creates a
graphic visual experience, summarize and
paraphrase, and make inferences using
textual evidence. Students will write
imaginative stories their actions.

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

10

11

12

13

Unit 4.B: Fiction (Folktales, Myths, Legends)

Extend
Review
Assess

14

15

Unit 4.C: Drama

16

17

18

19

20

23

24

25

26

27

Unit 4.C: Drama

21
STAAR Testing
Grade 3 - Reading May 9

22

Extend
Review
Assess

Unit 4.C: Drama

End of 4th
Cycle

Early Dismissal Days (2 1/2 hours early)

Teacher Service Days
Teacher Preparation Days

28

29

30

31

Make-up Days (if needed)

This document offers suggestions for

pacing instruction and does not replace
the HISD Planning Guides.

GLOBAL GRADUATE

Houston ISD Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment 2016-2017