Grade 3 English Language Arts
11 units matched to the Manitoba Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Learning focus
- A1 Oral Language Communication: Learners will apply listening and speaking skills to receive, exchange and develop ideas for various purposes and audiences.
- A2 Language as the Foundation for Reading and Writing: Learners will develop and apply the understanding of the system of language (knowledge and skills) and language comprehension for reading and writing.
- B1 Acquire New Information: Learners will activate, acquire and build background knowledge through inquiry of diverse topics and engagement with multimodal forms of text (e.g., visual, oral, print, digital, experts, Elders).
- B3 Think Critically about Multimodal Text and Respond: Learners will recognize, analyze, and respond critically to inequities, bias, and viewpoints in texts and ideas.
- C1 Generate Ideas, Create Plan and Draft/Prototype: Learners will generate ideas, conduct research, evaluate sources, and design a plan to compose multimodal texts (visual, multimedia, oral, written) for a range of purposes and audiences.
- C2 Enhance the Clarity and Artistry of Multimodal Texts: Learners will apply knowledge and understanding of the variables of writing to enhance the clarity, precision and effectiveness of their creations and reflect critically on created text.
- C3 Edit and Publish: Learners will apply knowledge of editing to communicate the text clearly and coherently to an audience, using a variety of media, tools and strategies to publish text.
- D1 Share Ideas and Information: Learners will use a range of multimodal forms of communication (e.g., visual, multimedia, oral and written texts) to share, clarify, and extend ideas/ information for different purposes and audiences.
- D2 Assess and Set Goals: Learners will use metacognition (the ability to think about one’s own thinking) to assess their language skills as listeners, speakers, readers, writers, viewers and representers, supporting their grow as independent learners. Learners will set goals and monitor progress.
Units
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 outcome: ELA.3.B2.3, ELA.3.B2.5, ELA.3.B2.6 · predicting, using strategies to understand a text, and recalling important information
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 outcome: ELA.3.B2.4, ELA.3.B3.4 · story elements, connections to a text and sharing an opinion about it
Unit 3
Word Jobs
Finding nouns (naming words), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words) and adverbs (words that tell how) in sentences.
Learning outcome: ELA.3.C2.3, ELA.3.C3.2 · more specific nouns, verbs and adjectives
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 outcome: ELA.3.C3.3, ELA.3.C3.4 · capital letters and punctuation
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 outcome: ELA.3.A2.3, ELA.3.C3.2 · reading and spelling words with common spelling patterns
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 outcome: ELA.3.A2.4 · prefixes, suffixes and word parts that change meaning
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 outcome: ELA.3.A2.5, ELA.3.B2.7 · new vocabulary, and words that go together
Unit 8
Sentence Smarts
Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.
Learning outcome: ELA.3.C2.2 · simple and compound sentences
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 outcome: ELA.3.B3.2, ELA.3.B3.3 · telling fact from opinion in fiction and nonfiction
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 outcome: ELA.3.A2.5, ELA.3.B1.3 · alphabetical order and using a dictionary to learn word meanings
Unit 11
Reading Patterns
Spotting cause and effect and order of importance, deciding who is telling a story, making inferences from clues, and using an index.
Learning outcome: ELA.3.B2.1, ELA.3.B2.2, ELA.3.C2.1 · how the form and structure of texts and text features organize ideas
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