ELA Planning -Grade _3_Unit _4_

Text/Focus Skill Thinking Map Idea/Steps Collaboration- Discussion/Engagement

Strategy
Lesson _16_ 1) Watch “Five Things” (rap video-Elements of a Story)
Judy Moody Saves the Go to www.WatchKnowLearn.org Have students work on the circle and
World 2) Create the following tree map: tree maps in the Text Dependent
Questions section of the lesson plan.
Target Skill: Judy Moody Saves the World
Story Structure
Characters Setting
Essential Question:
Why is it important to Plot
take care of our Judy Stink Rocky
environment?
pushy messy
Add Mom and Dad Problem/Solution
Academic Vocabulary School Home
Words: Conflict
story structure
characters Text Dependent Questions:
setting How does the author show that Stink is a family member? Writing: Using the maps created write to
plot How do the titles of each chapter help you understand the story? the Essential Question (theme).
theme
What evidence does the author give that shows the rainforest us a part of Restate the Essential Question for the
our daily lives? topic sentence, use details from the map
Materials Needed: 1-Have Chewing Gum for the body, and the Frame of
students cite Reference for the closing sentence.
evidence in a from the
circle map:
lipstick Rainforest
List evidence from the book in green.
2-Add additional evidence from the websites (listed below) in blue.
“Products from the Rainforest”
http://mrsgebauer.com/rainforestweb/products and/or
www.rainforest-alliance.org/kidfacts

3-Sort “products” from the tree map:

Products

food medicine things

Frame of Reference Question(s):

So why is this information important to me?
So why is this information important to others?