Grade 3 English, unit by unit

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Ask a third grader why a character did something and you often get a retelling instead of an answer. Reading, Thinking, Writing: Grade 3 English Language Arts starts by teaching one move, pointing to the exact sentence that proves it. It is eight units and 20+ hours of reading and writing, with grammar taught inside the text of the week.

The eight units

Finding the Evidence. What the Story Is Really About. Main Idea and How Nonfiction Is Built. Reading Nonfiction Closely. Comparing Two Texts. Writing to Give an Opinion. Writing to Inform. Writing a Story in Order.

Show me, don't tell me

In Unit 1 your child sorts questions into who, what, when, where, why and how, then puts a finger on the one sentence that answers each. The guide's trick for a child who answers from memory is to hand over the passage and refuse the answer until a finger lands on a sentence.

Fables and the thing the story never says

Unit 2 uses two fables to separate what a character did from why. Your child builds a lesson from the choice plus what happened because of it, then names the one line that would break the lesson if it were not true.

Nonfiction has parts

Units 3 and 4 teach main idea and supporting details, then headings, captions, diagrams and glossaries. Your child learns what a diagram label says that the body text does not, and tells cause and effect apart from steps in order.

Three pieces of writing

The last three units produce a four-paragraph opinion piece with two reasons each backed by the text, a three-paragraph informative piece with a heading and a diagram or caption of their own design, and an original story. Sentence combining with and, but and or and verb tense are practiced inside the drafts.

What this is not

It is not a light supplement. The guide plans 50 minutes, five days a week, all year, with the shared reading of short passages as the biggest time cost.
It is not a phonics course. The guide asks whether your child reads simple chapter-book text without sounding out most words and knows vowel teams like ee, oa and ai, and says to close a phonics gap first.
It is not a course to reorder. The guide builds each unit's vocabulary on the one before, and says swapping Unit 3 before Unit 2 leaves 'lesson' and 'motivation' missing when Unit 5 needs them.

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Questions parents ask

Does it include grammar?

Yes, but inside the reading and writing. Subject-verb agreement, past, future and irregular verbs, complete sentences against fragments, and and, but or or all appear in the unit where your child needs them, not as drills.

How is writing checked?

By you, against the vocabulary built earlier, mainly evidence. The guide says to budget extra time for looking at drafts in Units 6, 7 and 8, and each unit ends with a test on material your child has not seen, then a review day.

What does my child need first?

To retell a five-sentence story in order, tell a complete sentence from a random string of words, read chapter-book text at a normal pace, and read common vowel-team words. The guide gives you a short check for each.

What does it cost?

$29 a month or $290 a year for every child. The first 30 days are free with no card.

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