Grade 1: How Do We Understand the Past? 

 

Grade 2: George Washington Carver 

 

Curriculum Maps Grades 3-5 

 

Grade 3 Curricular Map 

Grade 3: Standard 3.2 Lesson 

Grade 3: Standard 3.2 Text 

Grade 3: Standard 3.3 Founding of Los Angeles

 

Grade 4: Gold Rush 

Grade 4: Gold Rush Materials 

 

 

Journal Entry Frame 

Journal Entry Frame-Word  

La Salle Speech 

Collection Sheet-La Salle 

Collection Sheet-Tecumseh 

 

 

 

Close reading is an instructional strategy that can be used to help students go deeply into text to seek out information, acquire key concepts, and employ strategies, automatically and invisibly as independent readers. The Common Core State Standards initiative encourages students to take several passes of text to read and reread passages closely and interact with text through a series of questions, discussions, and writing activities. It also calls for close reading of primary sources.