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= **3rd Grade Unit 5: A Feast of Words on a Planet Called Earth–and Beyond ** =

In this fifth six-week unit of third grade, students read stories, poems, and informational text full of rich language, a “feast of words.” **Overview**

Students read fiction that demonstrates the use of idioms and exhibits careful diction. They read poems that focus on a simple topic such as corn or grass to see how the topics are developed line by line and stanza by stanza. They write to express their own opinions about the idea of having laws that legislate what people can and cannot eat. Working with Latin suffixes, they will see the way suffixes transform one part of speech into another. Students illustrate an idiom to express their own interpretation of its meaning and then write a note to Amelia Bedelia about the idiom. Finally, the students will stretch beyond this world to read and research about other planets.

**ESSENTIAL QUESTION**

What makes a word or phrase the “right” word or phrase?


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