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Reading, Thinking, Writing: Grade 3 English Language Arts

Grade 3 · 318 pages · 67 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year grade 3 ELA course built on short, complete public-domain and original passages. Students learn to find evidence for answers, recount stories and determine lessons, explain character motivation, find main idea and details in informational text, use text features, compare two texts on the same topic, and write opinion, informative, and narrative pieces. Grammar is taught inside the reading and writing students are already doing, not as isolated worksheets. Every unit reuses vocabulary and text structures from the unit before it so knowledge compounds instead of resetting.

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Reading, Thinking, Writing: Grade 3 English Language Arts

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Unit 1: Finding the Evidence7 lessons
  1. 1.The specific sentence in a text that answers a literal text-dependent question
  2. 2.The six question-word categories (who/what/when/where/why/how)
  3. 3.The distinction between directly relevant evidence and a true-but-irrelevant sentence from the same text
  4. 4.The two-part test for a complete sentence (subject present, verb present)
  5. 5.The specific missing part (subject or verb) in a given fragment
  6. 6.Two distinct valid answers to one text-dependent question, each backed by a different sentence in the same passage
  7. 7.Evidence sentences supporting answers to six mixed-type text-dependent questions on an unfamiliar passage
Unit 2: What the Story Is Really About8 lessons
  1. 8.Sequence of events in a fable, marked by past-tense verbs
  2. 9.The difference between a character's action and the character's motivation
  3. 10.Character motivation inferred from action plus situational detail
  4. 11.The central message or lesson of a fable and its supporting evidence
  5. 12.Lessons of two fables compared for similarity and difference
  6. 13.Relative strength of two competing evidence-based interpretations of the same fable
  7. 14.Past versus present tense verb use depending on whether recounting events or stating a lesson
  8. 15.Cause-effect link between a character's choice and a subsequent story event
Unit 3: Main Idea and How Nonfiction Is Built8 lessons
  1. 16.Main idea of a nonfiction paragraph
  2. 17.The relationship between a main idea and its supporting details
  3. 18.The fit between a specific detail and a stated main idea
  4. 19.The function of specific nonfiction text features
  5. 20.Information located specifically within a diagram or caption
  6. 21.Subject-verb agreement in simple sentences
  7. 22.The relative usefulness of different text features for a specific purpose
  8. 23.Main idea, supporting details, and text-feature use in an unseen informational text
Unit 4: Reading Nonfiction Closely9 lessons
  1. 24.Cause-and-effect relationships within informational sentence pairs
  2. 25.The distinction between causal and sequential text structure
  3. 26.Information carried by a diagram label that is absent from body text
  4. 27.Integration of textual and visual information to answer a single question
  5. 28.Future-tense verb forms, including irregular verbs
  6. 29.Irregular past-tense verb forms
  7. 30.The boundary between what running text states and what a visual feature adds, applied to an unpracticed passage and diagram
  8. 31.Text-feature vocabulary from Unit 3
  9. 32.The difference in organizing structure between two passages describing the same content
Unit 5: Comparing Two Texts8 lessons
  1. 33.A two-circle comparison chart (Venn-style) sorting shared and unique details from two texts on one topic
  2. 34.Shared versus unique details across two informational texts on the same topic
  3. 35.Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) used to join two ideas from a comparison
  4. 36.The idea that authors choose which true details to include or leave out
  5. 37.Lesson/theme comparison across two narrative texts
  6. 38.Evidence that a similarity or difference claim depends on
  7. 39.A short written comparison of two unfamiliar texts on a shared topic
  8. 40.The terms compare and contrast
Unit 6: Writing to Give an Opinion9 lessons
  1. 41.Opinion statement (claim sentence)
  2. 42.The difference between a reason, a fact, and a restated feeling
  3. 43.Matching textual support to a specific stated reason
  4. 44.Linking words joining reason and support
  5. 45.The 4-paragraph opinion structure
  6. 46.A complete 4-paragraph opinion piece
  7. 47.Support-for-reason check in peer drafts
  8. 48.Verb tense consistency across a paragraph
  9. 49.Independent construction of a supported opinion piece on an unseen topic
Unit 7: Writing to Inform10 lessons
  1. 50.Text features (heading, caption, diagram) and topic sentence as named parts of an informational text
  2. 51.Grouping related facts by subtopic within an informative topic
  3. 52.Topic sentences that state the main idea of a paragraph's facts
  4. 53.Note-taking from a source using paraphrased short phrases
  5. 54.A heading that names the shared topic of a completed 3-paragraph piece
  6. 55.Text features (diagram or caption) as carriers of a specific stated fact
  7. 56.Subject-verb agreement across a full paragraph
  8. 57.Consistent verb tense across a paragraph
  9. 58.Fit between a fact and a stated topic sentence
  10. 59.A complete informative piece organized into topic-grouped paragraphs with a text feature
Unit 8: Writing a Story in Order8 lessons
  1. 60.Chronological sequence of story events
  2. 61.Beginning-middle-end story structure
  3. 62.Showing character feeling through action rather than naming it
  4. 63.Temporal words signaling sequence relationships
  5. 64.A character's choices compared across a story's arc
  6. 65.Sentence-combining with coordinating conjunctions
  7. 66.Consistent verb tense across a paragraph
  8. 67.A complete original 3-paragraph narrative with beginning-middle-end sequence and a motivation detail

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