📚 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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.6(F); 3.6(G) · understanding stories and finding the key ideas 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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.8(B); 3.8(C); 3.8(D) · characters, settings and plots

3. Unit 3

   🧩Word Jobs

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

   TEKS student expectation: 3.11(D) · nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.11(D) · commas, apostrophes and quotation marks

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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.2(A); 3.2(B) · spelling vowel teams and word endings

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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.2(A); 3.3(C) · 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).

   TEKS student expectation: 3.2(B); 3.3(D) · 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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.11(D) · complete sentences and kinds of sentences

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.

   TEKS student expectation: 3.2(C); 3.3(A) · alphabetical order and using a dictionary

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.

    TEKS student expectation: 3.11(D) · possessives, verb tenses and prepositions

11. Unit 11

    🖼️Word Pictures

    Understanding metaphors and similes, hearing repeated vowel sounds (assonance), and choosing strong, exact words.

    TEKS student expectation: 3.10(D) · similes, imagery and sound devices

12. Unit 12

    🔍Reading Patterns

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

    TEKS student expectation: 3.9(D); 3.10(B) · cause and effect, order and other text structures

13. Unit 13

    🔍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.

    TEKS student expectation: 3.13(A); 3.13(C) · asking research questions and choosing sources

14. Unit 14

    📣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.

    TEKS student expectation: 3.9(E); 3.13(C) · facts and opinions, what a message is for and choosing sources

15. Unit 15

    🐉Tales, Poems & Hyperbole

    Your child tells fables, folktales, legends and myths apart, reads rhyme schemes and stanzas, and spots sound devices and hyperbole.

    TEKS student expectation: 3.9(A); 3.9(B); 3.9(C); 3.10(G) · folktales, fables, legends, myths, poems, plays and hyperbole