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Grade 3 thinkSRSD-inspired POWeR Cycles

Par ONlit Dernière mise à jour 2025/09/15

Description

This resource features a collection of thinkSRSD-inspired POWeR (Plan, Organize, Write, Revise) cycles designed specifically for Grade 3 writers. Each cycle supports students in becoming strategic writers through explicit instruction in key strategies, with built-in opportunities to connect writing instruction to Grade 3 content areas.

Topics include:

  • Terry Fox
  • Beaver dams
  • Regions and jobs
  • How forces affect toys
  • Hockey Night in Kenya
  • Salma the Syrian Chef
  • Healthy eating
  • Two row wampum
  • Alma Thomas
  • Soil types
  • National AccessAbility Week
  • Plant adaptations

Note: Some iPhone users have reported that when they click on the buttons below to access the documents, the Google Drive folder they are taken to is empty. Unfortunately, this is a technical issue beyond our control. As a work-around, we recommend accessing the documents from a different device.

 

 
These materials support instruction of writing strategies, syntax and grammar, comprehension, and vocabulary - key elements that stretch across strands B, C and D.

14 commentaires

  1. I am leaving a comment here that relates to the new Learning Through Literacy units (as compared to this one). I can’t seem to leave comments there. It is all useful, but the challenging thing about the new ones is when you click on a link, it brings you to a Google Drive Folder, and then you click the folder and it contains one thing, and if you are following the educator guide, if you want to find the next thing, you need to go back to onlit and click a link, which takes you to another folder, which contains one item, so planning requires 100 tabs. Example – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jF8_mFprF_9IQCv47t3B9muqzClELqjY
    Is there a way to have a link which takes you to the parent folder – so an educator can more easily go between components more like this (though this is .pdf format instead of google docs format). This was feedback from staff I was sharing / promoting this with. Just a suggestion.

    1. Hi TETrus,

      Just wanted to follow up. We’ve given some serious thought into possible solutions to the problem you are describing, because we can definitely understand why this is difficult.

      Unfortunately, there are some solid technical reasons that we have things structured the way that we do, and currently, the risks and downsides with changing that structure are not outweighed by the benefits that would be gained by having all files available in one folder.

      However, we do have a suggestion for you that might be helpful. ONlit actively encourages users to “Make a copy” of all our resources so you can modify them to best suit the needs of your students. If you take copies of all of the resources for a unit, and save them in your own Google account, you can them organize them with all of the files in one folder (or however you see fit). The next time when you need to reference them, go to your copy and use those, and you can avoid the “too many tabs and too much clicking” problems.

      Sorry we aren’t able to make the solution that you’d really like to see happen now. Rest assured, that we are thinking about it, and if a prize-winning solution that meets all of our requirements becomes apparent, we will be sure to implement it.

      Thank you so much for engaging with ONlit and sharing input. Feedback is always helpful and guides us ongoing!

  2. I love the ideas, but cannot locate any of the materials. You cannot easily locate the power cycles per grade, or even the TIDE graphic organizer. Even if I find a list of the materials, you cannot click on any of the descriptions.

    1. So sorry for the trouble you are having accessing these resources. Unfortunately, you seem to have run into a problem caused by Google Drive not functioning properly. Sometimes, for reasons we cannot explain, users can see files listed but they aren’t clickable. This is completely out of our control 🙁 The word around is to try from a different device or even a different browser (like Firefox or Edge), or simply at another time.

  3. We were looking at the exemplars in this unit and there is a mix up in the B and C samples. The colour coded and teacher information at the beginning do not match the unmarked samples. I gave my class the exemplars to colour code and when we were looking at your colour coded samples the paragraph letter did not match. The and B and C are reversed.

  7. I implemented the power cycle provided on Regions and Jobs today and it was a big hit! Student comments included “I want to visit Port Colbourne to eat the peaches off the trees,” and “I think I would like to work in natural resource tourism in Moosenee,” and “YES (fist pump) I was hoping we would get to write about this (regions and jobs),” and a chorus of YAYS when I said we were going to make a GIST and then write about this topic! The vocabulary and background preload made this lesson accessible which is in part why they loved it! I might be biased so I’ll let the students rate the lesson – they gave it 5 starts!

  9. This resource is absolutely fantastic! It seamlessly integrates knowledge-building, vocabulary development, sentence and paragraph writing, mentor texts, complimentary texts, reading responses, and cross-curricular connections within literacy, etc. I can’t imagine the amount of time it took to create this resource—thank you! Our Learning and Teaching team is hopeful that similar resources will be released for other grades—and in French as well. 🙂 We truly appreciate it!

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