Grade 3 English Language Arts
12 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Learning focus
- Interactions: Expression. Describe and discuss thoughts, feelings, experiences, ideas, and opinions.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Ask and respond to questions to clarify information, explore possibilities, or identify solutions to a problem.
- Interactions: Reception. Receive and critically reflect on the ideas and opinions of others.
- Reading: Word Study. Differentiate sounds in spoken language.
- Reading: Fluency. Read with accuracy and expression.
- Reading: Vocabulary. Use a range of vocabulary when communicating.
- Reading: Reading Comprehension. Construct meaning from printed text when reading independently.
- Reading: Text Analysis. Select and engage with a variety of text forms for specific uses.
- Representations: Spelling. Apply appropriate spelling conventions when creating written works.
- Representations: Sentence Structure. Compose sentences and short paragraphs.
- Representations: Composition. Organize ideas and create written and media texts.
- Representations: Text Analysis. Select information from multiple sources to support ideas and construct meaning.
Units
Unit 1
Speaking & Listening
How a speaker's eyes, posture, gestures and movements help communicate, and what good listening looks like. Some families show respect in other ways, such as looking down, and the questions note this.
Skill descriptor: Interactions: Expression · speaking and listening with others
Unit 2
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.
Skill descriptor: Representations: Spelling · spelling patterns and rules
Unit 3
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.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Word Study · word parts that change meaning
Unit 4
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).
Skill descriptor: Representations: Spelling · homophones, synonyms and antonyms
Unit 5
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.
Skill descriptor: Representations: Spelling · alphabetical order and using a dictionary
Unit 6
Word Jobs
Finding nouns (naming words), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words) and adverbs (words that tell how) in sentences.
Skill descriptor: Representations: Sentence Structure · nouns, verbs and describing words
Unit 7
Sentence Smarts
Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.
Skill descriptor: Representations: Sentence Structure, Representations: Composition · writing complete and varied sentences
Unit 8
Punctuation Power
Choosing end marks, using commas in lists and dates, writing contractions and possessives with apostrophes, and putting quotation marks around speech.
Skill descriptor: Representations: Sentence Structure · capitals, periods, commas and quotation marks
Unit 9
Reading Patterns
Spotting cause and effect and order of importance, deciding who is telling a story, making inferences from clues, and using an index.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Text Analysis · how different texts are organized
Unit 10
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.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Reading Comprehension · using reading strategies to understand a text
Unit 11
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.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Text Analysis, Representations: Composition · characters, setting and plot in stories
Unit 12
Fact or Opinion?
Telling facts (which can be checked) from opinions (what someone thinks), and spotting opinion words like best and cutest.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Text Analysis · telling facts from opinions
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