Standards
The standards explicitly taught and assessed in Unit 3 are from these 2 domains.
What are writing and language?
In addition to writing, students are doing this on the Mid-Unit 3 and End of Unit 3 Assessments.
What is answering selected-response questions?
In Unit 3, we learn these 2 Big Ideas about experts.
What are experts build knowledge by studying a topic in depth and experts share information through writing and speaking?
These 2 anchor charts are featured in lesson 11.
What are the Performance Task anchor chart and the Trading Card Criteria anchor chart?
True or false? Frogs live on every continent.
What is false? (They do not live on Antarctica.)
These 2 standards are included on both the Mid-Unit 3 and End of Unit 3 Assessments.
What are W.3.4 and W.3.10?
Students complete this writing task on the Mid-Unit 3 Assessment.
What is a first draft of their second proof paragraph for their informative text about the unique adaptations of their frog?
Name 2 of the selections from Everything You Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures that students will read in Unit 3.
What are "The Poison Dart Frog," "All about the Water-Holding Frog," "The Amazon Horned Frog," and "Transparent Wonder?"
These are the focus of the mini-lesson in lesson 10.
What are simple, compound, and complex sentences?
Bullfrog calls can be heard up to this distance.
What is one mile?
These lessons focus on informational reading standards, as well as writing and language standards.
What are lessons 1-5?
Students do these things in Part 1 of the End of Unit 3 Assessment.
What are revise, edit, and write a final draft of their informative freaky frog essay?
Complete this guiding question: How do frogs...?
What is survive?
These Unit 3 lessons include guided practice during Work Time.
What are lessons 1-6?
Frogs drink this way.
What is by absorbing water through their skin?
In lesson 2, this is the learning target that aligns with the language standards taught.
What is "I can form and use regular verbs in the future tense?"
In the Module 2 Performance Task, this will appear on one side of each student's Freaky Frog trading card.
What are a scientific illustration and key facts (side 1), and scores frog frog against criteria of color, size, camouflage, and poison (side 2)?
According to the Topic section of the 4 Ts, what and how do students research in Unit 3?
What are a particular frog, and in expert groups?
In this lesson, students generate criteria for, and design, a front and back cover.
What is lesson 9?
The world's largest frog (goliath frog of West Africa) can weigh up to this much.
What is 7 pounds?
Standards W.3.6, W.3.8, and W.3.10 show up in at least 6 lessons in Unit 3. Describe one of these standards.
What is...
W.3.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
W.3.8 Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
W.3.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
In addition to 6 writing standards, this language standard is addressed on the Module 2 Performance Task.
What is L.3.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships?
In which lessons do the Mid-Unit 3 and End of Unit 3 Assessments live?
What are lessons 6 and 10?
In lesson 8, students are revising their informational text with these 2 things in mind.
What are conventions and word choice?
Approximately how many species of frogs are there worldwide?
What is over 6,000?