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Standard C

C Communication

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Gateway's Bee Garden
Gateway's Bee Garden

Lesson

Students will investigate how bees help with pollination and why they are important for food production. Students will design a bee garden and propose the building of it on school grounds.

Biodome
Biodome

Lesson

The students will be working together in teams to create biodomes. They will be adding plants, animals, and decomposers to their biodomes.

LEGO Storytelling
LEGO Storytelling

Lesson

Reconstruct the plot of the story - beginning, middle, and end- then extend the story. What happened next? The author does not tell us. Use you skills of inference to decide. AS long as you can...

Betsy Byars | Conversations with SC Writers

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Betsy Byars started her career writing for magazines. Later, she turned her attention to writing children's books. In 1971, she won a Newbery Medal for Summer of the Swans . Ms. Byars enjoys writing...
Dori Sanders | Conversations with SC Writers

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S.C. author Dori Sanders reads from her bestseller, Clover , and describes the characters in the novel. She talks about characters being based loosely on real-life but the stories being fictionalized...
Matt Christopher | Converations with SC Writers

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Matt Christopher opens by reading from The Kid Who Only Hits Homers . He states that all of his books are written to entertain the readers. He expresses the importance of writing with emotion. He...
Eleanora Tate | Conversations with SC Writers

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Eleanora Tate is an award-winning author of children's books. She discusses writing The Secret of Gumbo Grill . Her idea for the book came from the fact that there were few books dealing with modern...
Tom Feelings | Conversations with SC Writers

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Tom Feelings was both a writer and an illustrator. He taught illustrating at the University of South Carolina. Usually, the process is that a manuscript is submitted to a publisher, and the publisher...
Tommy Scott Young | Conversations with SC Writers

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Students speak with poet, storyteller and writer Tommy Scott Young. Mr. Young starts with The Gingerbread Man . One of his secrets is to read outloud. The characters do not come fully alive without...