Grade 3 Language Arts

 Grade 3 Language Arts
  • Recommended Grade Level: 3
  • Course Price: $0.00

Course Overview:

This course provides students instruction and practice in reading, comprehending, and analyzing various genres. Students will also learn skills to become stronger writers while creating texts for various purposes. Students will complete basic research tasks. In addition, students will learn spelling, grammar, and conventions to strengthen their writing. They will also learn and practice skills and strategies to build their vocabulary. Students will further their communication skills by listening, speaking, and working with peers. Students will also learn and utilize cursive writing.

Required Materials:

  • Writing paper (loose leaf)
  • Fiction book of choice
  • Pencil
  • Non-fiction book of choice
  • Spiral or composition notebook

Required Reading:

3rd Grade Unit 7: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Play by Roald Dahl. ISBN 9780142407905

Syllabus:

Unit 1 - Grammar! Grammar!

Lessons:

  • Nouns and Word Origins
  • Outside Reading, Reading Journal, and Syllables
  • Narrative and Accented Syllables
  • Topic Sentences, Nouns, and Capitalization
  • Genres and Capitalization
  • Captions and Capitalization
  • Key Words and Singular and Plural Nouns
  • Fluency and Pronouns
  • Possessive Nouns and Pronouns

Unit 2 - Parts of Speech

Lessons:

  • Fluency, Writing Process, and Verbs
  • Draft, Noun/Verb Agreement, and Spelling Patterns
  • Book Review, Verb Tenses, and Spelling Patterns
  • Fluency and Verb Endings
  • Writing Process with Graphic Organizers
  • Fluency and Sentence Types
  • Sentence Types and Vowel Sounds
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Outlines and Exclamatory Sentences

Unit 3 - New Words

Lessons:

  • Narrative, Noun/Verb Agreement, and Spelling Patterns
  • Writing a Personal Narrative
  • Revising
  • Editing and Prefixes
  • Verbs and Adjectives
  • Revising with Verbs and Adjectives
  • Media and Simple and Compound Sentences
  • Conjunctions and Noun/Pronoun Agreement
  • Audio Story, Conjunctions, and Suffixes

Unit 4 - Language and Writing

Lessons:

  • Listening and Contractions
  • Outlining and Articles
  • Writing a Speech and Spelling
  • Commas and Prefixes
  • Adjectives and Commas
  • Learning about Essays
  • Planning an Essay, Suffixes
  • Writing the Essay
  • Completing an Essay, Suffixes

Unit 5 - How to Write a Story

Lessons:

  • Possessive Nouns and Syllabication
  • Elements of Fiction
  • Sequence Writing, Plurals and Possessives
  • Characterization, Commas, and Syllables
  • Creating a Character and Editing
  • Setting and Paragraphs
  • Theme, Point of View, and Contractions
  • Plot and Elements of Fiction
  • Writing a Fiction Story

Unit 6 - All About Poetry

Lessons:

  • Adverbs
  • Elements of Poetry
  • Listening to Poetry
  • Writing Poetry, Antonyms, and Synonyms
  • Forms of Poetry
  • Forms of Poetry (Continued)
  • Drafting a Poem
  • Writing and Revising a Poem
  • Writing and Editing a Poem

Unit 7 - Drama! Drama!

Lessons:

  • Prepositions and Syllables
  • Elements of Drama
  • Reading Drama and Homophones
  • Reading Drama and Final Syllables
  • Traditional Dramas
  • Writing a Drama
  • Comparing and Contrasting Folktales, and Syllables
  • Comparing and Contrasting Folktales (continued)
  • Capitalization

Unit 8 - Literary Writing

Lessons:

  • Inferences and Parts of Speech
  • Types of Non-fiction
  • Sensory Language, Quotation Marks, and Dialogue
  • Cultural Literary Non-fiction
  • Research and Homographs
  • Cultural Literature
  • Elements of Biography
  • Point of View, Biography, and Autobiography
  • Writing a Letter

Unit 9 - Different Ways to Write

Lessons:

  • Informational Texts, Digraphs, and Diphthongs
  • Expository Writing
  • Expository Sequence
  • Research and Digraphs
  • Problem-Solution Essays
  • Writing a Problem-Solution Essay and Comprehension
  • Cause-Effect Relationships and Consonant Combinations
  • Procedural Text and Paragraph Structure
  • Writing a Procedural Text

Unit 10 - Writing Practice

Lessons:

  • Argumentative Text and Vowel Combinations
  • Research Techniques
  • Research, Organize, and Write a Persuasive Essay
  • Different Types of Media
  • Differences Between Print and Electronic Media
  • Write a PowerPoint© Presentation
  • Write a PowerPoint© Presentation (continued)
  • Present a PowerPoint© Presentation
  • Viewing and Discussing Presentations

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