📚 Grade 3 English Language Arts

Units

1. Unit 1

   📚Read and Think

   Reading short original stories and non-fiction passages, then finding the main idea, details and order of events, making inferences and working out word meanings from context.

   Learning standard: Reading strategies and metacognitive strategies; forms, functions and genres of stories and other texts (fiction and non-fiction)

2. Unit 2

   🎭Story Elements

   Naming the characters, setting, problem and solution of a story, describing how characters feel and what they are like, and finding a story's lesson.

   Learning standard: Story/text: elements of story (character, setting, plot, problem and solution); literary elements

3. Unit 3

   🧩Word Jobs

   Finding nouns (naming words), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words) and adverbs (words that tell how) in sentences.

   Learning standard: Language features, structures and conventions: sentence structure and grammar (parts of speech)

4. Unit 4

   ✒️Punctuation Power

   Choosing end marks, using commas in lists and dates, writing contractions and possessives with apostrophes, and putting quotation marks around speech.

   Learning standard: Language features, structures and conventions: punctuation (end marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks)

5. Unit 5

   🐝Spelling Patterns

   Spelling long vowel sounds with vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow, igh, ie) and adding -ed and -ing by doubling a letter, dropping a silent e or just adding the ending.

   Learning standard: Language features, structures and conventions: spelling patterns (vowel teams; adding -ed and -ing)

6. Unit 6

   🔧Prefixes & Suffixes

   Learning what prefixes (un-, re-, pre-, dis-) and suffixes (-ful, -less, -er, -ly) mean, finding base words and using new words in sentences.

   Learning standard: Language features: word patterns (prefixes, suffixes and base words)

7. Unit 7

   🔁Word Pairs

   Synonyms (words that mean the same), antonyms (opposites) and homophones (words that sound alike but are spelled differently, like their, there and they're).

   Learning standard: Language features: vocabulary and word patterns (synonyms, antonyms, homophones)

8. Unit 8

   📝Sentence Smarts

   Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.

   Learning standard: Language features, structures and conventions: sentence structure (sentence types, complete sentences, joining words)

9. Unit 9

   🤔Fact or Opinion?

   Telling facts (which can be checked) from opinions (what someone thinks), and spotting opinion words like best and cutest.

   Learning standard: Forms, functions and genres of texts; reading and thinking strategies (telling fact from opinion)

10. Unit 10

    🔤ABC Order & Dictionary

    Putting words in alphabetical order to the first, second and third letter, and using dictionary guide words to find the right page.

    Learning standard: Reading and metacognitive strategies: alphabetical order and dictionary skills