Lesson
3
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Writing an Informative Text about Fairness

Grade

Grade 3

UNIT

7

Fairness

Last Updated:

June 5, 2025

Unit 7, Lesson 3, “Writing an Informative Text about Fairness,” reinforces the vocabulary word fairness. Students will write an informative text about a person who worked for civil rights. This informative text will examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

SUGGESTED TIME:

40 minutes

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Introduce a topic and group related information together 
  • Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details
  • Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information
  • Provide a concluding statement or section
  • Demonstrate understanding of standard English sentence structure and grammar 

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

  • Prohuman Grade 3 Unit 7 Worksheet 3: Writing an Informative Text about Fairness

VOCABULARY:

Fairness: I treat everyone the same. If someone has been left out, I bring them in.

Civil Rights Movement: A time in America in the 1950s and 1960s when Black Americans fought for equal rights, like the right to vote, go to the same schools, and use the same places as everyone else.

ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.B

Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.C

Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.D

Provide a concluding statement or section.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.10

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.B

Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.C

Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.D

Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.3

Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET

Moral Character A3

Understand and explain the expression “I have the courage to stand up for what is wrong or unfair”

Moral Character B3

Provide an example of a friend or role model who “stood up” for what he or she thought was wrong or unfair

Civic Character A1

Understand the idea of fairness and the consequences of not being fair, as it relates to breaking rules, playing favorites, or taking advantage of others

Civic Character B1

Describe how a role model exemplifies fairness

Civic Character B6

Describe how a role model volunteers and contributes to the common good

Social-Awareness A2

Describe how a person will likely feel when being bullied or left out of an activity or group

Social-Awareness A3

Recognize examples of stereotyping, discrimination and prejudice

LESSON PROCEDURE

Today you will write an informative text about a person who interests you who worked for Civil Rights.

  1. Write Civil Rights Movement on the board. 
  2. Ask students what the Civil Rights Movement means.
  3. Give students the definition: A time in America in the 1950s and 1960s when Black Americans fought for equal rights, like the right to vote, go to the same schools, and use the same places as everyone else.
  4. Look at this website and choose one person who interests you to write about in your informative text: Civil Rights Leaders (NAACP)
  5. Your informative text should do three things:
    • First, the informative text should develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
    • Second, it should use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
    • Finally, it should provide a concluding statement or section.
  6. Now you will look at the website, choose a person who interests you, and write your own informative text.

NOTE: Collect and keep the worksheet on the following page for the next day’s lesson in which students will share their stories with a partner.

GRADE 3 UNIT 7 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING AN INFORMATIVE TEXT ABOUT FAIRNESS

Fairness: I treat everyone the same. If someone has been left out, I bring them in.

Civil Rights Movement: A time in America in the 1950s and 1960s when Black Americans fought for equal rights, like the right to vote, go to the same schools, and use the same places as everyone else.

ACTIVITY: 

Write an informative text of 5 sentences about a person who interests you who worked for civil rights from this website: Civil Rights Leaders (NAACP).

Your informative text should:

  • Include 3 facts about what the person did
  • Uses linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but)
  • Provides a concluding statement or section about how they worked for fairness

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