Level Overview
This interactive Level Overview PDF Pack includes:
- Level Outline & Objectives
- Links to Units & Lessons
- Related Resources
Intermediate 3 Overview
Intermediate 3 Goals
These are the main goals of this level:
- Grammar: Superlatives, Wish, & Deductions
- Speaking: Expanding on sentence complexity
- Writing: Writing process essays
- Reading: Reading for Story Structure, Making Inferences, Comparing Texts
- Vocabulary & Spelling
Intermediate 3 Tips
1. Units are themed. Each Unit includes both a literary passage and an informational passage related to the theme of the unit.
2. Writing Process Essays: one focus in Intermediate 3 is on writing solid process essays. Once students have finished this level, they should have a clear grasp on how to structure and write a 5-part process essay explaining how to do something.
3. Each unit was designed for 4 weeks with about 3 hours of class time a week. If you have your students for less than 3 hours a week, you may want to consider taking more time for a unit. If students are picking up the material quickly and easily, you can try picking up the pace so that you make quicker progress through the level. Just remember the goal is fluency with the content. Learning the material well is better than getting through quickly and forgetting everything.
4. Grammar Review: If you find that students are struggling a bit with be-verbs (Beginners 4), present simple or present continuous (Low-Intermediate 1), future or past simple tenses (Low-Intermediate 2), past continuous or present perfect (Low-Intermediate 3), basic sentence structure and parts of speech (Low-Intermediate 4), or conjunctions (Intermediate 1) you can head back to those levels and print off what you need to spend some more time reviewing before moving on with the Intermediate 2 materials.
5. Weak Readers: If your students need to work on reading to decode and phonics at this level, you can grab the Phonics Anchor Chart to review the major phonics combinations. Students can start identifying those combinations in the texts they read by underlining or highlighting words that follow the rules you want them to practice.
Intermediate 3 Lesson Planning
Intermediate 3 Overview
- Unit 1
- Theme: Extreme Weather
- Literary Passage: Calm After the Storm
- Informational Passage: Extreme Weather
- Conditionals Overview & Giving Advice
- Writing a Process Essay
- Discussion & Project Ideas
Assessments Set 1
- Unit 2
- Theme: Magic
- Literary Passage: Diego the Incredible
- Informational Passage: The Statue of Liberty Is Gone
- Conditionals: What You Would Have Done Differently & When You Don't Believe Something
- Writing a Process Essay
- Discussion & Project Ideas
Assessments Set 2
- Unit 3
- Theme: Food & Community
- Poem: Honis-Mon-Curled
- Informational Passage: Food & Community
- Conditionals: Wish
- Writing a Process Essay
- Discussion & Project Ideas
Assessments Set 3
- Unit 4
- Theme: Detective Work
- Literary Passage: Aima Cracks the Case
- Informational Passage: How to Solve a Case
- Making Deductions
- Writing a Process Essay
- Discussion & Project Ideas
Assessments Set 4
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