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Allison Ibarra's Treasures Work Space

__**Unit 4 - "Our Teams"**__


 * Introduce Unit 4** with the "Theme Slideshow" from Treasures and supplement with an interactive concept/question board via linoit.com


 * Story 1: "Seven Spools of Thread"**
 * Practice vocabulary with Wordstash. - Play vocab games with this week's word list.
 * After reading the story, show this teamwork YouTube video, discuss its' connections to this week's story, and then have students create their own teamwork poster with a quote, picture, and/or motivational phrase on it.


 * Story 2: "Nacho and Lolita"**
 * Play spelling and vocabulary games with this week's word list on Spelling and Vocabulary City. Search "Allison Ibarra."
 * Create a character trading card for your favorite character from this week's story.


 * Story 3: "A Growing Interest"**
 * Respond to the Voicethread after reading the story.
 * Create a uniquely shaped Tagzedo, using this week's vocabulary words, plus any additional words from the story that stuck out to you.
 * Create a Problem Solution map for this week's story.


 * Story 4: "Ramona and her Father"**
 * Play this homophone word game to compliment this week's spelling/phonics lessons.
 * Create a comic strip on Bitstrips to summarize this week's story. Be sure to use a few examples of homophones.


 * Story 5: "Out of this World: The Ellen Ochoa Story"**
 * Build background knowledge by showing the Qwiki about astronauts.
 * Create pre-writing/research notes about Ellen Ochoa, Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, or another astronaut mentioned in the story, using the interactive Bio-Cube on ReadWriteThink.


 * Unit 4 culminating activity:** Complete the activities (watch the YouTube video, take the quiz, and complete the activity on the attached document on Allison Ibarra's Grade 3, Treasures Unit 4 Google Site