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3rd Grade Unit 1: Stories Worth Telling Again and Again In this first six-week unit of third grade, students read stories that are worth telling and retelling. **Overview** Students read the tales of grandparents and they become familiar with the tradition of “trickster stories” across multiple cultures. They read a Langston Hughes poem, and review the parts of speech through Ruth Heller’s //World of Language// books. The students engage the texts in multiple ways: They write stories they want to preserve; they also build upon their knowledge of geographical settings of folktales from previous grades as they research the cultural backgrounds of the trickster tales. They dramatically interpret a poem by Langston Hughes.

**ESSENTIAL QUESTION**

Why do we hand stories down to the next generation?

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