Running head: CURRICULUM MAP

Alexander Kubes
Curriculum Map
PPE 310
Mary Dean
April 4, 2016

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English Language Arts 3rd grade Common Core Curriculum Map

STRAND: Reading Literature
Arizona State ELA
Performance Objective
Instructional Strategies
Common Core
I can..
Determine the main
Students will be able to find
Mini Lesson 1
why sleep is necessary in
idea of a text,
order to grow healthily
Sub-Objectives:
recount the key
through an informational text
details and explain
Sleep- how often
about sleep.
how they support
should a student sleep
the main idea. (3RI2)
to be healthy.
Writing- pull details
about sleep from a
text.
Math-how many
hours a night should a
student be sleeping,
what does that mean
about sleep over a
years time span.
Materials:
Scholastic magazine
about sleep.
Graphic organizer:
connection web.
Pencil
English Language Arts Common Core
Curriculum Map for 3rd Grade
Writing and Strategies/Activities to Support Standards
Arizona State ELA
Performance Objective
Instructional Strategies
Common Core Standards
I can..
3W1: Write opinion pieces
I can express my opinion on a Mini Lesson 2
on topics or texts,
health and wellness magazine
supporting a point of view
article.
Sub-Objectives:
with reasons.
Physical Activity to
decrease obesity.
Reading- identify key
points in the text to
support your point of
view.
Vocabulary-Exercise
orientated.
Materials:

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Health Magazine
articles provided by
the teacher.
Counter claim to
certain health
practices actually
being healthy.
- Generating a plan
to build a healthier
school, program
produced by the
class.

English Language Arts Common Core Curriculum Map for 3rd Grade
STRAND: Speaking and Listening
Arizona State ELA
Performance Objective
Instructional Strategies
Common Core Standards
I can..
3SL4: Report on a topic or
I can understand what causes
Mini Lesson 3
text, tell a story or recount
environments to change over
an experience with
the course of time.
Mini Lesson 3
appropriate facts and
relevant, descriptive details,
Sub-Objectives:
speaking clearly at an
Natural- what parts of
understandable pace.
earth are causing the
earth to change.
Human- What effects
are humans having on
the world; positive
and negative effects.
Materials:
Bill Nye Science
episode.
Graphic organizer
Pencil

Narrative
This curriculum map comes from Hohokam Elementary School, it is a
3rd grade curriculum for SUSD. The classes are ability grouped at this school

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however the 3rd grade is split up into an ELA teacher, a Math teacher, and a
Social Studies and Science teacher that rotate the students.
Mini Lesson One
Sleep
Determine the main idea of a text, recount the key details and
explain how they support the main idea. (3RI2)
Students will be introduced to the sleep cycle through a scholastic
news article. The goal for the students will be to find why sleep is necessary
to be a healthy student. The students will record their findings on a separate
graphic organizer that is provided by the teacher.
The teacher will first have the students brainstorm why they think
sleep is important. The students will break off into small groups and discuss
why they think sleep is important. After allowing the students about 5
minutes to discuss the teacher will have the students write on the white
board that has been split up into 5 different sections to represent the 5
groups and the students will write on the board what their teams came up
with. The students will then be given a scholastic news article that they will
read as a team to see why sleep is necessary.
The students will take turns reading within their own groups. During
the reading the students will highlight what they think is important
information from within the text. Once the group has read through the text
they will record down on the graphic organizer what they thought was
important. Once the students have all the information they need they may

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go up to the board and star the correct information that they had already
previous to the reading or they can erase wrong information and add the
new correct information. The students can then find how much sleep they
should get a year in order to be healthy students.
Mini Lesson Two
Health
3W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Students will be able to write an opinion in letter format about a health newspaper article
that has been supplied by the teacher. Students will be asked to brainstorm with their mini team
what they think it is to be healthy. They can give examples of people they think are healthy, they
can give examples of what healthy people do. They will brainstorm for about 1 minute to figure
out what they believe to be healthy. The students will then state their definition of healthy to the
class from their mini group.
The teacher will then pass out newspaper articles that are on topics of healthy living. The
students goal will to be to prove whether the newspaper article is accurate with what a healthy
person does or inaccurate. Students will be defending their point of view so they have to pull
points for or against the article to talk to the class about. The students will mark the article where
they think the text is important and then create points of their own using what they have found in
the newspaper article.
Students will then give a brief argument defending their point of support or attack of the
article to show they understand what it means to be healthy. The teacher will have provided one
article that they know not to be accurate to see if the students can find out which article is not
healthy. The students will start debating their articles and slowly decide whose article is

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incorrect. The students with the incorrect article may know their article is wrong already in
which case it will be more of an agreement than an actual debate.
Mini Lesson Three
Environment
3SL4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts
and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
Students will be in charge of bringing a current news event on the environment to school.
When they come to class they will summarize the news article for their group. Once they have
summarized their news articles they will collaborate and find what factors affect the environment
The students will have a chart that has one side being of Natural cause, and one side being
Human Cause. The students will have to decide whether their articles are talking about one or the
other.
The students will have to define what exactly would be human cause, and what would be
natural cause. The students will then take different parts of the articles to state whether one or the
other is being used. The students will then have to see what affects both sides are having on the
environment and whether they are negative or positive. Each individual point will have the
chance to be negative or positive.

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Criteria
Curriculum
Map/Scope and
Sequence
Integration of
Health Topics

Teacher Content
Knowledge
(TCK)

Exemplary (5)
Your Assignment includes:

Score: x2

Instructional
Plans (IP)

SCORE:
x2

A cover page that includes the

followingname, the course, the
assignment, the date and an
appropriate Running head in APA
format. Your cover page should
include a page number.
District provided curriculum
map/scope and sequence
appropriate for placement
classroom.
Highlighted text, outlining the
followingSleep = Blue, Topic of
your Choice = Yellow, Healthy
Environment/Sustainability = Green
Integration of the health
components do not detract from the
academic content
Teacher regularly implements a
variety of subject-specific
instructional strategies to enhance
student content knowledge.
Specifically, places that logically
fits into the academic content that is
being taught, where you can teach
three separate mini lessons; one
about sun safety, one about sleep,
and one about environmental
health. (TCK-Tap)
References are included where
appropriate
This rubric is attached at the end of
the document
Your word document file name
includes your last name, first name,
assignment #, and your class
section #
There are no writing, grammatical
or spelling errors
Your assignment was placed in your
E-Portfolio under the Healthy

Proficient (3)
Your Assignment includes:

Your C

A cover page that includes most of

the followingname, the course, the
assignment, the date and an
appropriate Running head in APA
format. Your cover page should
include a page number.
District provided curriculum
map/scope and sequence appropriate
for placement classroom.
Highlighted text, outlining most of
the followingSleep = Blue, Topic
of your Choice = Yellow, Healthy
Environment/Sustainability = Green
Integration of the health components
sometimes detract from the academic
content
Teacher sometimes implements a
variety of subject-specific
instructional strategies to enhance
student content knowledge.
Specifically, places that logically fits
into the academic content that is
being taught, where you can teach
three separate mini lessons; one about
sun safety, one about sleep, and one
about environmental health. (TCKTap).

References are included where but

not on the last page of the document
This rubric is attached but not at the
end of the document
Your word document file name
includes most of the following last
name, first name, assignment #, and
your class section #
There are few writing, grammatical
or spelling errors
Your assignment was placed in your
E-Portfolio however it was placed in

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8
Curriculum Development tab
Curriculum map includes: (IP)
o Evidence that assignment is
appropriate for the age,
knowledge, and interests of
all learners you teach and;
o 3, 1 page, double spaced
mini-lessons in teacher talk
format, one for sleep, one
for sun safety, and one for
environmental health
o A brief narrative summary
describing your grade, the
school district, describe
your classroom context and
other pertinent information

the wrong section

Curriculum map mostly includes: (IP)
o Evidence that assignment is
appropriate for the age,
knowledge, and interests of
all learners you teach and;
o 2 of the 3 following, 1 page,
double spaced mini-lessons
in teacher talk format, one for
sleep, one for sun safety, and
one for environmental health
o A brief narrative summary
describing your grade, the
school district, describe your
classroom context and other
pertinent information