📚 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.

   Learning standard: ELA.3.RL.1; ELA.3.RI.2 · understanding stories and finding the main idea of true texts

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.

   Learning standard: ELA.3.RL.3; ELA.3.RL.5 · characters, settings and plots

3. Unit 3

   🔍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 standard: ELA.3.RI.5 · cause and effect, order and other text structures

4. Unit 4

   🔧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 standard: ELA.3.RF.3; ELA.3.L.4 · using prefixes and suffixes to read and understand words

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.

   Learning standard: ELA.3.RF.3; ELA.3.L.2 · spelling vowel teams and word endings

6. Unit 6

   🧩Word Jobs

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

   Learning standard: ELA.3.L.1 · nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

7. Unit 7

   📝Sentence Smarts

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

   Learning standard: ELA.3.L.1 · complete sentences and kinds of sentences

8. Unit 8

   ⚙️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.

   Learning standard: ELA.3.L.1; ELA.3.L.2 · possessives, verb tenses and prepositions

9. Unit 9

   ✒️Punctuation Power

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

   Learning standard: ELA.3.L.2 · commas, apostrophes and quotation marks

10. Unit 10

    🔁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).

    Learning standard: ELA.3.L.5 · synonyms, antonyms and homophones

11. Unit 11

    🔤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.

    Learning standard: ELA.3.L.4 · alphabetical order and using a dictionary

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.

    Learning standard: ELA.3.W.7; ELA.3.W.8 · asking research questions 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.

    Learning standard: ELA.3.RI.6; ELA.3.W.8 · facts and opinions, what a message is for and choosing sources