Grade 3
Language Arts
In Language Arts Grade 3, students will engage in a variety of topics as they explore the world of reading and writing. Students will learn foundational skills, cursive writing, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, and the writing process as they write narratives, informational, and opinion essays. In this course, students will participate in engaging lessons that include interactives, informational and literature texts, graphic organizers, videos, and various practice activities. Topics range from healthy habits and overcoming obstacles to mysteries. Students will meet an astronaut, earn badges for the Junior Astronaut Training Handbook, and draw a space academy recruit in this Space-themed course.
Major Topics and Concepts
- Apply strategies for decoding, context clues, and spelling
- Ask and Answer questions
- Identify character traits
- Determine the central message
- Determine literal and nonliteral meanings
- Use the past, present, and future verb tenses
- Identify the subject and predicate in a complete sentence
- Use the writing process to write an informative, narrative, and opinion text
- Use strategies to find the meaning of unknown words
- Identify the main idea in an informative text
- Recognize the different text structures
- Read with accuracy, rate, and expression
- Apply strategies for decoding, context clues, and spelling
- Practice cursive writing skills
- Explain how characters’ actions contribute to the sequence of events
- Explain the point of view of the characters, narrator, and reader
- Recount a story and determine the central message
- Use punctuation correctly
- Use compound words and contractions
- Use the writing process to write an informative, narrative, and opinion text
- Recount key details and explain how they support the main idea
- Use language to show time, sequence, or cause and effect to describe the relationship in a text
- Explain the point of view of the author and the reader
- Recognize how to write sentences with subjects and verbs that agree
