📚 Grade 3 English Language Arts: how to help at home

What each unit covers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

8. 🤔Fact or Opinion?

   Telling facts (which can be checked) from opinions (what someone thinks), and spotting opinion words like best and cutest.

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.

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.

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.

12. 🧩Word Jobs

    Finding nouns (naming words), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words) and adverbs (words that tell how) in sentences.

13. 📝Sentence Smarts

    Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.

14. ✒️Punctuation Power

    Choosing end marks, using commas in lists and dates, writing contractions and possessives with apostrophes, and putting quotation marks around speech.

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.

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.

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).

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.