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Grade 3 · English Language Arts · Unit 16 of 18

Make Writing Better

Strong words, joining ideas, revising and neat writing.

What your child practises

Practises adding descriptive words, joining ideas with connecting and transition words, noticing when writing doesn't make sense, revising with feedback, and neat handwriting and word processing.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.3.A1.5, ELA.3.C2.4, ELA.3.C2.5, ELA.3.C3.1 · complex sentences and transitions, voice, revising with feedback and neat letter formation

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A classmate says, “Tell me more about the storm.” You can…

    • hide your paper
    • add details about the storm
    • erase the storm

  2. Question 2

    Which sentence does NOT make sense?

    • The bike has two wheels.
    • The bike drank the sunny sandwich.
    • She rode her bike.

  3. Question 3

    Which is a complex sentence?

    • It rained.
    • Umbrella.
    • I took an umbrella because it was raining.

  4. Question 4

    A transition word tells the reader…

    • how to spell
    • how ideas connect
    • where to stop reading

  5. Question 5

    Choose the best word: “I stayed inside _____ it was cold.”

    • because
    • banana
    • under

  6. Question 6

    Which pair of sentences is joined best?

    • I was tired, so I went to bed early.
    • I was tired so so so.
    • Tired bed I went.

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