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

What each unit covers

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.

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.

3. 🧩Word Jobs

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

4. ✒️Punctuation Power

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

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.

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.

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).

8. 📝Sentence Smarts

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

9. 🤔Fact or Opinion?

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

10. 🔤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.

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.

12. 👂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.

13. 🔤Sounds, Letters & Fluent Reading

    Practises sound awareness (segmenting, blending and changing sounds), letters in different fonts, recognizing common and tricky words quickly, and using punctuation to read with expression.

14. 🔍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.

15. 📝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.

16. ✏️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.

17. 🖼️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.

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.