What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win
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Grade 3 Remote Learning Assignments for Literacy Week 2: March 30th - April 3rd How do I submit my work? ● Click on the links (underlined in blue) below to submit on Illuminate You can also choose one of the following ways to submit work: ● Take a picture and send to your teacher ● Submit using Google Classroom (message your teacher) Monday ● Reading: Read What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win By Christine Louise Hohlbaum, ○ CLICK HERE to submit Main Idea OR write it on a piece of paper to have it reviewed later by a teacher! ● Writing: Watch: Writing Video- constructing a short response ● Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. ○ Example tumble books through Clever: Step level 1-5: Arts Supplies; Step level 5-9: Pop’s Bridge; Step level 10+: A Ticket around the World Tuesday ● Reading: What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win - Multiple Choice Questions (CLICK HERE to submit Questions on Illuminate) ● Writing: Answer the question: What challenges did Catchings face while growing up? How did she face these challenges and eventually overcome them? Use two details from the passage to support your answer. ○ Craft your claim for your short response using this Graphic Organizer ● Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. ○ Example tumble books through Clever: Step level 1-5: The Dot; Step level 5-9: Ruby’s Wish; Step level 10+: Prince for a Princess 1 Wednesday ● Reading: Read The Sign By Laura Wrang ○ CLICK HERE to submit Main Idea OR write it on a piece of paper to have it reviewed later by a teacher! ● Writing: Refer back to the text What a Pro Knows, and find 2 pieces of evidence that support your claim. Use this link to add your evidence to the Graphic organizer you worked with on Tuesday. ● Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. ○ Example tumble books through Clever: Step level 1-5: Mrs. Malarkey Won’t be in Today; Step level 5-9: Adventures of Camp Lots of Fun; Step level 10+: TJ and the Haunted House Thursday ● Reading: Read The Sign By Laura Wrang - Multiple Choice Questions ○ CLICK HERE to submit questions on illuminate ● Writing: Watch: Writing Video- the writing process Refer to your RACE graphic organizer and begin to construct your response in paragraph form. Use this template as you construct your short response essay. ● Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. ○ Example tumble books through Clever: Step level 1-5: Always; Step level 5-9: Diary of a Fly; Step level 10+: Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate Friday ● Reading: Finish any work that was not completed during the week ● Writing: Watch: Writing Video- a focus on editing and revising ● Continue to construct your short response essay using this template- edit and revise as needed. Submit your published piece to your teacher by Sunday! ● Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. ○ Example tumble books through Clever: Step level 1-5: Crazy for California; Step level 5-9: Mud Puddle; Step level 10+: Fiona’s Luck *You must know your ID number in order to submit your answers in Illuminate. If you do not know your ID number, please let your teacher know and they can help you. 2 Monday Lesson At A Glance for Today: A. Reading: Read What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win By Christine Louise Hohlbaum, ○ CLICK HERE to submit Main Idea OR write it on a piece of paper to have it reviewed later by a teacher! B. Writing: Watch: Writing Video- constructing a short response C. Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. Part A - Reading: Directions: Read and annotate the passage. Write your main idea jot at the end of the text. WHAT A PRO KNOWS: PLAYING TO WIN by Christine Louise Hohlbaum2016 Olympic gold medalist Tamika Catchings is a star both on and off the court. The daughter of NBA player Harvey Catchings is a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) All-Star. She is also the creator of a foundation that helps children. It may surprise some people to know Catchings was born partially deaf. She says that’s exactly what motivated her to become the star she is today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE Because she was hard of hearing, Catchings could not speak well, and she had to wear hearing aids. Her classmates teased her constantly. She would run home from school and hide in her room for hours. “I cried and prayed a lot,” she admits. Catchings spent a lot of time at school playing basketball. She was good at it and she worked hard. She worked hard on her class subjects, too. She began to dream of a career in sports. “Being good in sports [and at school] was my challenge to those who made fun of me,” she says. “People… couldn’t say that I wasn’t smart, and they couldn’t challenge me on the court, field, or wherever. That was my challenge to them.” Catchings knew from visiting her father’s practices how much hard work it took to be a pro basketball player. But she knew what she wanted and was willing to work for it. The fact that there was no professional women’s basketball team at the time didn’t stop her from reaching for her goal. She just thought she would have to join a men’s team. Then in 1996, the WNBA was formed. 3 Today, Catchings plays for the Indiana Fever. She does not wear her hearing aids on the court. She does wear them when she speaks publicly and whenever else she thinks she needs them. She travels the world to play basketball and to speak out on behalf of hard of-hearing people. Catchings’s dedication to her family is constant. “There were plenty of times that I wanted to give up, but my family was there to support me to strive for bigger and better things,” she says. “Giving up was not an option. Part B: Writing Watch this video to learn how to construct a short response paragraph Part C: Independent Reading Read for 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. You can use Raz-Kids, a book from home or Tumble books through clever. Track your reading with this reading log or from google classroom. Need help picking a just right book: Example tumble books through Clever: Step level 1-5: Arts Supplies Step level 5-9: Pop’s Bridge Step level 10+: A Ticket around the World Title Author How did you read? How many How many After reading: Did you answer Raz-Kids, Tumble, pages? minutes? questions, discuss the book book at home? with someone, or write about the book? 4 Tuesday Lesson At A Glance for Today: A. Reading: What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win - Multiple Choice Questions (CLICK HERE to submit Questions on Illuminate) B. Writing: Answer the question: What challenges did Catchings face while growing up? How did she face these challenges and eventually overcome them? Use two details from the passage to support your answer. C. Independent Reading: 30 minutes TWO times per day and track your reading. Part A: Reading: Directions: Answer the following questions on the text Titled “ What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win” Remember to do all steps of the Strategic Reading Plan. 1. What is the central idea of the text? a. Catchings felt pressured by her father to be the best female player in basketball. b. Catchings experienced unfair treatment in basketball because of her gender. c. Catchings didn’t think that she could play basketball with her hearing loss. d. Catchings used her struggles in life to drive her to do her best in sports. 2. Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? a. “Catchings was born partially deaf. She says that’s exactly what motivated her to become the star she is today.” (Paragraph 1) b. “Because she was hard of hearing, Catchings could not speak well, and she had to wear hearing aids.” (Paragraph 2) c. “Catchings knew from visiting her father’s practices how much hard work it took to be a pro basketball player.” (Paragraph 5) d. “She travels the world to play basketball and to speak out on behalf of hard of-hearing people.” (Paragraph 6) 3. Which of the following describes how the information in the text is organized? a. The author compares Catchings’ experiences being deaf as a child with her experiences as an adult. b. The author discusses the challenges Catchings encountered, and then how she became successful as a basketball player. c. The author describes Catchings’ experiences in basketball before there was a women’s team, and then how they changed after. d. The author discusses the support that Catchings’ family offered her, and then how they contributed to her success. 5 Part B Writing: Using the text, What a Pro Knows: Playing to Win By Christine Louise Hohlbaum, craft a claim that answers the question: What challenges did Catchings face while growing up? How did she face these challenges and eventually overcome them? Use two details from the passage to support your answer. A. Restate the question in your own words and then answer the question. This will be your claim. Use the graphic organizer below to guide you. Today the “R” and “A” boxes will be completed. What challenges did Catchings face while growing up? How did she face these challenges and eventually overcome them? Use two details from the passage to support your answer.