📚 3rd grade English Language Arts

Units

1. 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.

   Benchmark: 3.1.4.1; 3.1.4.2 · asking and answering questions about a text and finding its central idea

2. 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.

   Benchmark: 3.1.4.3 · how characters, setting, conflict and events develop a plot

3. Unit 3

   🧩Word Jobs

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

   Benchmark: 3.2.1.3 · nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions

4. 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.

   Benchmark: 3.2.1.1 · commas in a series, apostrophes and other punctuation

5. 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.

   Benchmark: 3.2.1.2 · spelling patterns and rules for multi-syllable words

6. 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.

   Benchmark: 3.1.1.2 · using prefixes and suffixes to read and understand words

7. 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).

   Benchmark: 3.1.8.2; 3.1.1.2 · synonyms, antonyms and homophones

8. Unit 8

   📝Sentence Smarts

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

   Benchmark: 3.2.1.1; 3.2.1.3 · complete sentences, kinds of sentences and conjunctions

9. Unit 9

   🔤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.

   Benchmark: 3.1.8.2 · alphabetical order and using a dictionary to find word meanings

10. Unit 10

    ⚙️Grammar Gears

    Showing who owns something with 's, choosing linking verbs and -ing verbs, using question words like which and whose, and spotting prepositions and interjections.

    Benchmark: 3.2.1.3 · irregular plurals, verb tenses and prepositions

11. 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.

    Benchmark: 3.1.4.4; 3.1.5.2 · cause and effect, order and other ways informational texts are organized

12. Unit 12

    🔍Wonder & Find Out

    Practices using what you already know, asking focused questions, choosing information from sources, deciding what to include, and noticing diversity and inclusion in stories.

    Benchmark: 3.2.7.2; 3.1.9.2 · planning research and choosing sources

13. Unit 13

    📣Media Messages

    Children sort media by purpose (to inform, persuade or entertain), notice how ads use music, famous people and strong words, tell facts from opinions, and choose good sources for research questions.

    Benchmark: 3.2.7.1; 3.1.9.2 · telling fact from opinion and judging sources