📚 Grade 3 English Language Arts

Units

1. 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.

   Learning outcome: Use eye contact, posture, gestures, and movements to enhance communication. · using eye contact, posture and gestures to speak and listen well

2. Unit 2

   🗣️Oral Traditions

   Oral traditions are a way many First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities share knowledge. Questions focus on respectful listening and asking permission. No stories are retold here, and each Nation has its own teachings.

   Learning outcome: Explore how oral traditions show respect for traditional shared knowledge. · respecting oral traditions and shared knowledge

3. 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.

   Learning outcome: Read complex words, phrases, and passages fluently and with expression.; Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. · reading complex words using prefixes, suffixes and base words

4. Unit 4

   🐝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.

   Learning outcome: Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. · spelling patterns that make writing clear

5. Unit 5

   🧩Word Jobs

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

   Learning outcome: Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. · parts of speech and how words work in sentences

6. Unit 6

   📝Sentence Smarts

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

   Learning outcome: Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. · writing complete, clear sentences

7. Unit 7

   ✒️Punctuation Power

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

   Learning outcome: Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. · capital letters and punctuation that clarify writing

8. Unit 8

   📚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.

   Learning outcome: Identify how a variety of texts can communicate ideas and information. · finding main ideas, details and what a text tells us

9. Unit 9

   🎭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.

   Learning outcome: Identify how a variety of texts can communicate ideas and information. · story parts such as characters, problem and solution

10. Unit 10

    🔍Reading Patterns

    Spotting cause and effect and order of importance, deciding who is telling a story, making inferences from clues, and using an index.

    Learning outcome: Identify how a variety of texts can communicate ideas and information. · how texts are organized and what features help readers

11. Unit 11

    🤔Fact or Opinion?

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

    Learning outcome: Identify how a variety of texts can communicate ideas and information. · telling facts from opinions in texts

12. Unit 12

    💭Connecting to What You Read

    Relating personal experiences to stories, poems, plays and information books helps children understand what they read.

    Learning outcome: Relate personal experiences to interactions with people or information in books, poems, or plays. · connecting personal experiences to books, poems and plays

13. Unit 13

    💡Ideas for Writing

    Writers draw on memories, nature, pictures, books and conversations. Children practise planning, drafting, revising and editing.

    Learning outcome: Apply writing strategies to create texts that draw upon a variety of sources of inspiration. · finding ideas and using writing strategies