3 day Unit Plan

Grade/Class Profile:

3rd Grade

Theme:

People, Places & Environments

Standard - ELA

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2: Students can determine the main idea of a text as they remember the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

The student can determine the central message of a lesson and then explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2: Students can write informative texts to study a topic and depict information clearly (Bartholomew, 2019).

Standard – Social Studies

HSS-3.1: Students can describe physical and human geography through the use of maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and charts. All these will help them to organize information about people, places, and environments.

Objectives

ELA:

· Students will read a text about different environments and find out the main idea.

· Students will write a short summary that explains crucial details that support the main idea.

Social Studies:

· Students will explore different areas of human and physical geography.

· Students will compare and contrast their own community with another studied in class.

Social Studies

Pre-Assessment

Students will create a collage by use of images and symbols that represent the environment studied (Yemini et al., 2023).

They shall use art supplies like magazines, colored paper, and markers to make their collages.

The students can compare their collages with their peers to foster creativity and visual expression.

ELA Pre-Assessment

Students will listen to a text read-aloud by their teacher about various environments.

They shall be tasked to draw a comic strip that depicts the main events of the story.

Drawing materials shall help them to visualize the story’s structure.

Grouping Strategy

The groups contain students with similar special education needs so that they can have their developmental issues managed.

Using the class profile, group the students into four groups.

Group 1 Members

Group 2 Members

Group 3 Members

Group 4 Members

Aaron

Aiden

Jennifer

Leo

Viri

Christian

Dulce

Martin

Olyvia

Vincent

Cordarrell

Dereon

Luis

Matthew

Robert C.

Derek

Evelyn

Isabelle

Lexis

Yara

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Students will write a detailed summary of environments.

The information they provide shall include the main idea, key details, and their perception of the main idea (Baars et al., 2023).

Students will create a presentation that compares their community's geography with that of another.

Assessment Accommodations

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Text-to-speech software for Aiden to help with his speech and emotional regulation needs (Bonifacci et al., 2022).

Translation software for Christian and Dulce to aid their understanding of instructions in both Spanish and English.

Speech-to-text software for Dereon to accommodate his ADHD needs. The technology will help Robert C. to with his emotional disturbance (ODD).

Digital graphic organizers for Derek and Lexis to help them organize their thoughts and stay focused on tasks.