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📖 3rd Grade · ELARL.3.10Unit 1: Launching a reading life

Reading identity

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🎯 Objective: Students reflect on themselves as readers and set goals.

Lesson outline

  1. Reading survey: favorite books, where and when you read, what makes reading hard.
  2. Book tasting: rotate through tables of genres, jot one book you want to read.
  3. Set a goal (a series, a genre, minutes a night) on a reading log.
  4. Exit: share your goal.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.3.10

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read grade-level text with accuracy and fluency
  • Ask and answer questions referring to the text

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Character traits📚 Read-aloud stories📚 All 3rd Grade skills⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Launching a reading life”

  1. Reading identity
  2. Asking questions
  3. Fluency: phrasing
  4. Multisyllabic words
  5. Book talks

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