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Grade: Grade 3
Subject: English Language Arts
Created by:
Svetlana Stevanovic
Lesson Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Keywords/Tags: Recycle ,environment, litter, neighbor, community
Lesson Description: The goal of this lesson is to educate students on the importance of recycling and our environment. In this lesson,students mainly will be utilizing their reading and writing skills that they have been practicing to this point. The underling meaning of this lesson is to show these students that a little bit of effort goes a long way when it comes to recycling and the environment. These students will read the story and will be able to write in their own words how they can make a difference in their community.
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Common Core Standards Covered with This Lesson
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3a: Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4a: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
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Lesson Content: Reading
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| Instructions: Please read the following reading passage as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the passage if needed. |
A Better Community
My daughter brought a note home. I looked at the note and smiled. “So we will have a recycling center,” I said.
She started to explain why it is important to recycle. “I know,” I said, but I don’t have time.She thought of a way to recycle. She set up a bag in the kitchen. She said it would be for plastic. We would put plastic in there. Then once a month we would take the plastic to the Recycle Center. She said that plastic takes us lots of energy to make. And she said that it is hard for the environment when people throw it out.
It seemed like a good idea. But then the bag got full. In one week we had filled it with empty plastic bottles.
My daughter said we should look at what we use. We are using too much plastic. So we looked for ways to use less plastic.
I told my neighbor about this. She liked the idea. She started keeping her plastic in a bag. We all went together to the Recycle Center on the first Saturday. We brought our plastic.
When we got there, we saw many bags. People had brought lots of trash. They brought paper and metal, too. “Now that we have this center, it is easier to recycle,” said my neighbor.
When we were walking back from the Recycle Center, I saw a change. The street was cleaner. Most days I see trash in the street. People litter. But there was no litter today. My daughter said that another class had “adopted” the street. They were picking up litter there and taking it to the Recycle Center.
I said this is really big. It is about more than plastic. It is about lots of changes.
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Task 1: Vocabulary Activity
(40 points)
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| Instructions: Please complete the following vocabulary activity by choosing the correct meaning of each word selected from the passage and use of each word correctly in a sentence.
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3a, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4a, |
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Task 2: Discussion Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic.
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Recycling center
The author’s neighbor stated “Now that we have this center, it is easier to recycle.” How can recycling become easier for you if you had a center in your community? If you already use the center to recycle, please describe how it has helped you recycle.
Sent on: Oct 11, 2013 by: Svetlana Stevanovic |
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Recycling
Using complete sentences, please explain two reasons why it is important to reycle.
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Sent on: Oct 11, 2013 by: Svetlana Stevanovic |
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Too much plastic.
The Author stated "we are using too much plastic," in just one week they filled up a whole bag with empty water bottles.
What is one way that you could start to use less plastic in your life?
Sent on: Oct 11, 2013 by: Svetlana Stevanovic |
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1, |
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Task 3: Writing Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: In this writing activity please use the blank box below to write a 100 word minimal essay describing two ways that you and your family can recycle at home and one way that it can help the environment. Please make sure to include the products that you will be recycling (for example: plastic bottles and paper).
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2b, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2c, |
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