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Every Grade 3 material, organized by type. Open any area to reach the clusters and the full, viewable documents inside.
PURPOSE
This page gathers every Grade 3 material in one place, so a teacher can see the whole year of writing instruction at a glance.
RATIONALE
Every material grows from the same passage and prompt each week, so the teacher plans, student workbooks, and daily slides always teach the same lesson together.
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE
Start with the top three: Teacher Lesson Plans, Student Workbooks, and Lesson Daily Deck Sets. Open any card to reach its clusters and modules, then open the document inside.
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Teacher Lesson Plans
Daily plans for all nine clusters, the full teacher guide for each.
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Student Workbooks
The student workbook for each of the nine clusters.
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Lesson Daily Deck Sets
The daily teaching slide decks that pair with the lesson plans, one per module, posted cluster by cluster.
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Published Texts and Mentor Texts
A weekly sweep of real published texts: 35 weeks, each with a slide deck, teacher script, and tracking sheet.
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Word List and Phrase Fluency
Repeated reading of spelling and syllable type word lists and phrases, with a three-read tracking chart.
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Fluency Feedback Guide
Rate, accuracy, and prosody look-fors, a one-minute read check, and feedback sentence frames.
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Prosody Marks
An interactive marked passage that shows the voice where to rise, fall, stretch, and pause.
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Word Wisdom
Syllables, spelling, vocabulary, and morphemes — the word study tools for Grade 3.
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Assessment Tracker (Cluster 1)
Type each student's scores, see Low, Medium or High, and open the next best step for that cluster and module.
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Assessment Tracker: Sample Class
A pretend class of 10 students that shows everything the tracker does, with intervention and enrichment links.
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Assessment Trackers (All Clusters)
The grading dashboard for every cluster, Prepare through Cluster 8: type scores and see Low, Medium, or High with the next best step for each student.
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Assessments
The shared diagnostics and tools, plus this grade's Assessment Companion, cluster by cluster.
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Cluster 1 Connection Activities
The Short Constructed Response ladder, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 2 Connection Activities
The Extended Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 3 Connection Activities
The full TREES response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 4 Connection Activities
ECR craft, one sentence at a time, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 5 Connection Activities
Paired passage response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 6 Connection Activities
Argumentative writing, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 7 Connection Activities
Poetry, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 8 Connection Activities
The research capstone, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster Order Rationale
Why PREPARE and Clusters 1 to 8 come in this order.
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Clusters at a Glance
All nine Grade 3 clusters on one map, so the whole year reads at a glance.
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Coloring with Purpose
A TEKS-ordered Core Connection Companion of coloring pages built from each cluster's low stamina passage, with an answer key.
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Content Language Support
Grade-level passages with key words students can tap to see a simple picture, one for every cluster.
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Curriculum Connections
The Core Curriculum Connection Activities for this grade, one per module, linking the writing to the Bluebonnet core.
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Editing Workbook
36 weeks of daily editing practice, with a Teacher Edition.
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Good Morning Boards
A one page morning board and a slide show for every Grade 3 module: yesterday, today, the passage, supplies, a Quick Think, and a song.
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Grade 3 Scope and Sequence
The year in order: every cluster and module with the TEKS taught in each, from Prepare through Cluster 8.
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Home Connection
The bridge from school to home, one short Family Connection for every module, in English and Spanish.
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Implementation Guide
How a teacher puts the Grade 3 materials to work, from the first week through the full year.
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Interactive Games Index
The Grade 3 interactive games, indexed to the skills they practice.
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InterActivity Writer's Notebook
The student notebook for Prepare and all eight clusters, nine books in all.
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Master TEKS List
Every Grade 3 TEKS in one list, with where each one is taught.
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How to Present the PDF Slide Decks
Simple steps to show any slide deck full screen in Chrome, Edge, Adobe Reader, Mac Preview, on a SMART Board or Promethean, or an iPad.
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ELPS Correlation Chart
Every Grade 3 ELPS student expectation mapped to the cluster and module that teaches it, with a link to the exact page.
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Module Section Numbering Guide
The 85 sections in every module, the same in every grade. Section 50 is always the GRADUATE Lesson Cycle.
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Musical Play: The Three Doors
A third grade musical on the three writing genres, narrative, informative, and argumentative, with two of our songs.
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Pacing Calendars
The Grade 3 pacing calendars, cluster by cluster across the year.
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Passages and Source Index
Every Grade 3 reading passage and its source, indexed in one place.
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Prepare Connection Activities
Genre selection and narrative, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Reading Passages
Every reading passage for this grade in one place, formatted with a table of contents and divided by module.
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Revising Workbook
36 weeks of daily revising practice, with a Teacher Edition.
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Scope and Sequence by Cluster and Module
Every cluster and module with the TEKS it addresses.
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Scope and Sequence Explanation
A short guide that explains how to read the Grade 3 Scope and Sequence and why it is ordered the way it is.
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Standards Slide Decks
The Standards Sweep triplet sets, slides, scripts, and tracking sheets, including paraphrasing, by family.
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Station Rotation
Four independent eight-minute stations for each cluster: Correct It!, Prove It!, Shape It!, and Create It!, plus the four station books.
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Substitute Teacher Plans
Ready-to-print plans for a substitute, organized by cluster.
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Suitability Rubric Alignment
How our Grade 3 passages support patriotism, free enterprise, good citizenship, and the state suitability values, labeled by cluster and module.
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Teacher Resources
Spelling, reading passages, and text complexity for this grade, gathered under this grade.
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Teacher Support Overview
Everything that is there to support a Grade 3 teacher with written constructed response, each piece linked to its page.
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Teacher User's Guide
How to use the Grade 3 Supplemental Support System: the Learning Journey, the numbering system, the five-day GRADUATE lesson, supports, assessment, and reflection.
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TEKS 11D Chart
Where each editing standard under TEKS 11D is taught across the Grade 3 year.
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TEKS Chart
The three column trace: teacher, student, and assessment for each TEKS.
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Type-In Interactive Workbook
Students tap a box and type right on a phone, tablet, or computer, no app needed, then print or save. All nine Grade 3 workbooks: Prepare and Clusters 1 through 8.
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Weekly Pacing Guides
One page for each of the 36 weeks, with every Grade 3 lesson and resource one click away.
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Student Progress Trackers
Students color bar graphs and pie charts as they master each cluster. Interactive version for phones and smartboards, plus a printable booklet.
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Teacher Dashboard (School Map)NewA visual map for every cluster, Prepare through Cluster 8. Each room opens the real passages, games, songs, decks, workbooks, and supports for Grade 3. Open the map →