Literacy Express Smartboard Activity for Grades 2 to 4 is an exciting interactive  whole group or center activity presented in a game format for use with your Smartboard , Ipad, or Laptop,. This file is a Smart Notebook file created to motivate and engage your students in a comprehensive language review  of nine  essential areas of grammar. Your student(s) will identify and review their basic knowledge of grade appropriate language skills through interactive reading and writing.  Students will progress through the nine levels of Literacy Express and print a certificate upon completion. This activity has 10 interactive student slides with 36 questions. The file comes complete with directions, Core Content Standards, Essential Questions, and Objectives implemented.

Writers Workshop, Grade 3, Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, Unit Lesson Plans

   This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to IV and all sessions 1- 23 of Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, 2013 edition. The lesson plans outline all components of the Mini-lessons included in the unit: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, a 30 day monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.

     This unit is designed to help students learn to state clear opinions and to support these ideas with evidence.  Students learn to introduce topics, support these by listing reasons, using transition words to connect the various parts of their opinion writing and to conclude. This unit moves writers from writing opinion speeches to forming cause groups to support various causes. Across the unit, there is a focus on considering audience and considering word choice in light of audience.