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Grade 3: William & Mary Reading Program
The William & Mary Reading Program was developed by the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William & Mary. The program includes a series of curriculum units designed to challenge students to read advanced texts and perform a variety of tasks.In class the students read and discuss short pieces of literature—poems, short stories, speeches, and essays. They keep a response journal to clarify thinking and to help prepare for written and oral assignments. Students respond to the literature and think critically about it by analyzing ideas, vocabulary, and structure. Read more about William & Mary on the MCPS Website.

See how students in 3rd grade explored the theme of CHANGE with Ms. Gale. During this unit, the students read The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh.


Students brainstorm the concept of change in the real world before they explore the theme in the selected texts.

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Students consider that change can be either positive or negative. In the texts, they explore the idea of change in a sophisticated way.

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The students discuss agents of change:
nature vs. people.

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The group records important components of the texts and their reactions to the text.

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Student Projects

As students explore a theme in the text, they complete projects that explore the same theme.
Here are some of the students' projects exploring change over time.

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