LitCamp Reimagined! | Grade 3 Leader Guide Green Bunk

WRITING GOALS (Campers will . . .)

READ-ALOUD TEXT SET BOOK

VOCABULARY

FOUNDATIONAL SKILL

FLUENCY PRACTICE

• find text evidence about planets and dwarf planets • prepare to write about why Pluto is not a planet

• ancient • average • popular

• partner reading • choral reading

Clevor Trevor by Sarah Albee, illustrated by Paige Billin-Frye

Practice reading and using words with comparative endings - er and - est .

• use collected evidence to write a sentence explaining why Pluto is not a planet

• gaze • original • space

• Readers’ Theater

• collect evidence from the text showing a character’s actions and traits • prepare to write an explanation of how a character’s traits helped him learn and grow • use collected evidence to write an explanation of how a character’s traits helped him learn and grow

• challenge • courageous • review

Identify and read words with closed syllables.

• whisper reading • repeated reading

Your Fantastic, Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak, illustrated by Sarah Ackerley

• explore • express • outrageous

• Readers’ Theater

• find text evidence that illuminates a relationship between two characters • prepare to write about a friendship between two characters • use collected evidence to write about a friendship between two characters

• buckle • debris • devastate • pace • roam • sanctuary

Say and spell words with closed syllables.

• choral reading • partner reading

Hurricane Rescue by Rekha S. Rajan, illustrated by Courtney Lovett

• Readers’ Theater

• collect evidence from the text about how Charlie shows love • prepare to write about different ways to show love • write about how a character shows love, and how campers show love

• autism • brain • twin

Say and spell words with open-vowel syllables.

• whisper reading • partner reading

Leo and the Octopus by Isabelle Marinov, illustrated by Chris Nixon

• blessed • dangerous • special

• Readers’ Theater

• find details in a text that show how a character changes • prepare to write about how a character changes • use collected evidence to write about how a character changes from the beginning of a story to the end

• confused • deflate • sentence

Identify words with open and closed syllables.

• partner reading • repeated reading

Little Red Writing by Joan Holub, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

• endless • exclaim • possibility

• Readers’ Theater

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