Grade 3 English Language Arts
18 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening. Students will speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form, and genre.
- Writing and Other Ways of Representing. Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.
- Writing and Other Ways of Representing. Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
- Writing and Other Ways of Representing. Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and media products to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Units
Unit 1
Listening & Talking Together
Practises listening for key ideas, using non-verbal cues and turn taking, asking thoughtful questions, giving evidence, and sharing thoughts and preferences in a group.
Curriculum outcome: 1.2; 1.4; 2.1; 3.1 · listening for key ideas, taking turns, asking questions and sharing opinions in a group
Unit 2
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: 2.2; 2.4 · using voice, posture and gestures when speaking, and listening well to others
Unit 3
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: 4.2; 4.4; 7.2 · reading stories and true-fact passages, finding main ideas and telling fiction from non-fiction
Unit 4
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: 4.2; 6.1 · characters, settings, problems and feelings in stories
Unit 5
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: 4.3; 7.3 · using the index and text patterns, and noticing who is telling a story
Unit 6
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: 4.3; 5.1 · using ABC order and a dictionary to find words and information quickly
Unit 7
Wonder & Find Out
Practises using what you already know, asking focused questions, choosing information from sources, deciding what to include, and noticing diversity and inclusion in stories.
Curriculum outcome: 5.1; 7.1; 10.5 · asking questions, using what you know and choosing facts from different sources
Unit 8
Fact or Opinion?
Telling facts (which can be checked) from opinions (what someone thinks), and spotting opinion words like best and cutest.
Curriculum outcome: 6.2; 7.3 · telling facts from opinions and giving reasons
Unit 9
Plan Your Writing
Practises choosing a topic from experience, thinking about audience and purpose, using planning tools such as webs and organizers, and telling narrative, informational, descriptive and persuasive writing apart.
Curriculum outcome: 9.2; 10.1 · choosing a topic, purpose and audience and planning writing before drafting
Unit 10
Make Writing Better
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.
Curriculum outcome: 8.3; 10.1 · choosing strong words, joining ideas, revising and editing your writing
Unit 11
Posters, Slides & Media
Practises multimodal texts (posters, slide shows, videos, photo essays), planning a layout, choosing visuals and fonts, and picking the best way to share a message with an audience.
Curriculum outcome: 9.1; 10.4 · sharing ideas with words, pictures, sound and simple technology
Unit 12
Word Jobs
Finding nouns (naming words), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words) and adverbs (words that tell how) in sentences.
Curriculum outcome: 4.4; 10.2 · nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in sentences
Unit 13
Sentence Smarts
Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.
Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · kinds of sentences and complete sentences
Unit 14
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: 10.2 · end marks, commas, apostrophes and capital letters
Unit 15
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: 4.4; 10.2 · spelling patterns, vowel teams and word endings
Unit 16
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: 4.4 · how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of words
Unit 17
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: 4.4; 8.3 · synonyms, antonyms and sound-alike words
Unit 18
My Learning Goals
Practises self-monitoring, choosing strategies, using criteria and rubrics, using feedback, setting specific goals for listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and representing, and tracking progress.
Curriculum outcome: 4.5 · setting reading and learning goals and thinking about how you read
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