1. Mrs. Williams 3rd Grade Surprise Elementary
Off to Adventure!
Mrs. Williams
3rd Grade
Surprise Elementary

2. How would you turn a day into an adventure?
What is an adventure?
How would you turn a day into an adventure?
How do you think people feel when they are about to start an adventure?

3. Read pgs

4. Journal
What type of adventure would you like to go on? In your group make a list of things you would need to take on your adventures.

5. Tree Map on Adventure When finished work on Practice Book pg. 9
Types of
Things you may need
When finished work on Practice Book pg. 9

6. Davy Lowe
I am going to read aloud a story about a Canadian gold miner’s unexpected adventure in the 1940s.
Day 1

7. TE pg. 15A-15B

8. Comprehension What happens when Davy hits the bear on the nose?
Why does the birch begin to bend?
3. Why does the bear run away?

10. Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!
It’s time for . . .
These are words . . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

11. Rock Climbing Vocabulary
belay: being tied to a person or a rock with a rope for safety.

12. descent: a trip down into or from something (such as a mountain)

13. harness: a set of straps that can attach to a safety rope.

14. ledge: a shelf of rock

15. rappel: to come down a cliff by sliding down a rope.

16. trekked: made a slow and difficult journey on foot.
Read pgs. 16 & 17
Meet the Author & Illustrator

17. I can use illustrations to create reasonable predictions.
Predict: Think of a possibility that makes sense based on text clues and personal experiences. Take a look at the pictures of this story and make predictions about what will happen to the boy and his dog

18. Cause and Effect A cause is the reason that something happens.
An effect is something that happens as a result of a particular cause.

19. Listen to: Cliff Hanger
Cause and Effect
Rain
Wet
Listen to: Cliff Hanger

20. Cause-and-Effect Chart (Practice Book pg. 12)
(Why does it happen?)
Effect
(What happens?)
Climbers leave Grits on the mountain.
Axel and Dag set out to rescue Grits.
He thinks Grits might fall from Monkey Ledge.
Axel decides to climb up and get Grits in spite of the storm.
He reaches monkey ledge safely.
Axel climbs carefully, using all the proper equipment.
Electricity from the storm fills the air.
The hair on Axel’s head and arms stands up.
He free climbs the rest of the way down.
Partway down the cliff, Axel runs out of rope.

21. You are Great Readers!

22. Day 2

23. Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!
It’s time for . . .
These are words . . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

24. Rock Climbing Vocabulary
belay: being tied to a person or a rock with a rope for safety.

25. descent: a trip down into or from something (such as a mountain)

26. PB pg. 11
Read Cliff Hanger

27. Cause and Effect
One story event often makes another event happen. One event is the cause of another event, which is the effect.
What happens? (effect)
Why does it happen? (cause)

28. Dag’s decision is the effect.
“Stay where you are,” he said. “I’m going for help.” Why does Dag say this?
Axel cannot find a handhold and is stranded on the cliff.
Dag’s decision is the effect.

29. Comprehension Strategy: Cause and Effect
Using a Multi-Flow Map, choose an important event in the story and give three actual or possible causes and effects of that event.

30. He was climbing very carefully.
Base Words
Many words are made by adding beginnings and endings to smaller words called base words.
He was climbing very carefully.
In climbing, the ending –ing has been added to the base word climb.
T.E. pg. 49C

31. Find the Base Word!
Lighting flashed. Dag counted slowly. Axel picked up the shivering dog.

32. PB pg. 16

33. Echo reading Cliff Hanger
Why echo read?
Build fluency and expression
Better than reading in front of everyone by yourself
When you come to a word you don’t know you can hear it being read

34. You are Great Readers!

35. Day 3

36. Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!
It’s time for . . .
These are words . . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

37. We will be going over your vocabulary words about rock climbing.
Vocabulary Rocks!
We will be going over your vocabulary words about rock climbing.

38. harness: a set of straps that can attach to a safety rope.

39. ledge: a shelf of rock

40. Cause and Effect TE pg. R8
I was cold, so I put on a jacket.
Because we were tired, we took a nap.
The effect describes something that happens.
The cause tells why it happens.

41. Alphabetical Order TE pg. 49G
friend flash harness hand

42. Sort the words below into alphabetical order.
Transparency 1-3
Alphabetical Order
Sort the words below into alphabetical order.
washed
waist
disaster
dancer
difficult
soup
upset
storm
time
thunder
Check your Work!
1. dancer
4. soup
8. upset
2. difficult
5. storm
9. waist
3. disaster
6. thunder
10. washed
7. time
Partner Read “Cliff Hanger”

43. You are Great Readers!

44. Day 4

45. We will be going over your vocabulary words about rock climbing.
Vocabulary Rocks!
We will be going over your vocabulary words about rock climbing.

46. rappel: to come down a cliff by sliding down a rope.

47. trekked: made a slow and difficult journey on foot.

49. Reviewing Cliff Hanger
Listen to Cliff Hanger
Play Jeopardy

50. When You Are Finished After you finish your Weekly Skills Test:
Day 5
After you finish your Weekly Skills Test:
Make sure your name, date, and assignment are written clearly on the top left of the paper.
Turn your test paper to me and put your answer key in the reading tray.
Read a book of your choice.