Grade 3 English Language Arts
12 units matched to the Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and listening: explore and reflect. Students will speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and listening: communicate. Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and listening: interact with respect. Students will be able to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
- Reading and viewing: select and read. Students will be able to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and viewing: interpret and combine information. Students will be able to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- Reading and viewing: respond personally. Students will be able to respond personally to a range of texts.
- Reading and viewing: respond critically. Students will be able to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
- Writing and representing: explore and reflect. Students will be able to use writing and other ways of representing to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learning; and to use their imagination.
- Writing and representing: create texts. Students will be able to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
- Writing and representing: strategies. Students will be able to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and other ways of representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond personally (by Grade 3) · using reading strategies to understand a text
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond critically (by Grade 3); Writing and representing: create texts (by Grade 3) · characters, setting and plot in stories
Unit 3
Word Jobs
Finding nouns (naming words), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words) and adverbs (words that tell how) in sentences.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · nouns, verbs and describing words
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.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · capitals, periods, commas and quotation marks
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.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · spelling patterns and rules
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · 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).
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · homophones, synonyms and antonyms
Unit 8
Sentence Smarts
Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · writing complete and varied 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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond critically (by Grade 3) · telling facts from opinions
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.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · alphabetical order and using a dictionary
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond critically (by Grade 3) · how different texts are organized
Unit 12
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.
Curriculum outcome: Speaking and listening: communicate (by Grade 3) · speaking and listening with others
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