3rd+Grade+Language+Arts

Let's Learn || August- September || Why Is Learning Important? || -The Value of Friendship -Books can introduce us to new people, place, and ideas -Building Schools -Wolves -Special Places || **Reading:** -Character and Setting -Cause and Effect -Main Idea and Details -Compare and Contrast -Make and Confirm Predictions -Short vowels -Words with final e -Words with long o -Words with long o -Words with long i -Statements and Questions -Commands and Exclamations -Complete Subjects -Complete Predicates -Compond Subjects -Wordly Wise-Book 2 Units 1-5 -Vocabulary that goes with each individual story -Journal writing to respond to each story -Personal Narratives || Treasures Grade Three Book One || Treausures- Grammar
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Wordly Wise-Books 2

Leveled Readers: -The New kid -Anansi Wins Back the World's Storie's -Resources All Around Us -Katie and The Wolf -A Winter Adventure || -End of unit assessments -Wordly Wise Tests -Spelling Tests -Informal Reading Assessments || Neighborhoods and Communities || Mid September - October || How Do Community Members Work Together? || -Birth of a Town -Starting A Local Business -Communities -Working Together -Building Homes || **Reading:** -Sequence -Draw Conclusions -Main Idea and Details -Author's Purpose -Theme -Long e -silent letters -3-letter blends -diagraphs -Contractions -Common and Proper Nouns -Singular and Plural Nouns -Irregular Plural Nouns -Possessive Nouns -Sentence Combining with Nouns -Wordly Wise-Book 2 Units 6-10 -Vocabu;ary that goes with each individual story -Journal responces to the stories -Expository Writing || Treasures Grade Three Book One || Treasures-Grammar
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Wordly Wise Book 2

Leveled Readers: -Start Your Own Business -Purple Loosestrife -Communities across america -Patching a Playground -Emergency! || -End of unit Assessments -Wordly Wise Tests -Spelling Test -Informal Reading Assessments || Express Yourself || November-December || How Do Writers and Artists Express Themselves? || -Being a Writer -Keeping In Touch -Let's Communicate -Being an Artist -My Art || **Reading:** -Author's Purpose -Character, Setting, and Plot -Cause and Effect -Sequence -Make Inferences -R-controlled Vowels -Prefixes re-, un-, pre-, mis-, and dis- -Diphthong /oi/ - Variant Vowels -Action Verbs -Present-Tense Verbs -Past-Tense Verbs -Future-Tense Verbs -Sentence Combining with Verbs -Wordly Wise-Book 2 Units 11-15 -Vocabulary that goes with each individual story -Journal responces to the Stories -How-to-letter || Treasures Grade Three Book One || Treasure-Grammar
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Wordly Wise Book 2

Leveled Readers: -E. B. White, Writer -Dear Ghana -Bright Ideas: Inventions That Changed history -Old and New: Painting Through Time -A Different World || -End of unit assessments -Spelling Tests -Wordly Wise Tests -Informal Reading Assessments || Our Teams || December-January || What makes A Team strong? || -Working As One -Unique talents -Community teamwork -Family Teams -Astronauts || **Reading:** -Draw conclusions -Theme -Problem/Solution -Sequence -Diphthong ou and ow -Plurals -Variant vowels: au, aw, alt, alk, all, ough -Homophones -Soft c and g -Verbs be, do, have -Linking Verbs -Contractions with not -Main and helping verbs -Irregular Verbs -Wordly Wise-Book 3 Units 1-5 -Vocabulary that goes with each individual story -Journals responces to the stories -Narrative || Treasures Third Grade Book Two || Treasures- Spelling
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Wordly Wise Book 3

Leveled Readers: -A True Hero -Paul Bunyan and Babe: An American Tall Tale -Our City Gardens -The Sanchez Family Store -What's In the Sky? || -End of unit Assessments -Spelling Tests -Wordly WiseTests -Informal Reading Assessments || Those amazing animals || February-March || What Makes each Animal Unique? || -AntarcticLife -Animal Homes -Animals on the Move -Unique Animal Talents -Survival and adaptations || **Reading:** -Main ideas and Details -Description -Cause and effect -Draw Conclusions -Compare and Contrast -Compound Words -Inflectional Endings y to i -Closed Syllables -inflectional Endings -Open syllables -Pronouns -Subject/object Pronouns -Pronoun-Verb Agreement -Possessive Pronouns -Pronoun Contractions -Wordly Wise-Book 3 Units 6-10 -Vocabulary that goes with each individual story -Journal responces to stories -Research Report || Treasures Grade Three Book Two || Treasures-Spelling
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Wordly Wise Book 3

Leveled Readers: -The Weddell Seals -Amazing Bird Builders -Aliens in the Water -Mike's Surprise -Natural Defenses || -End of Unit Assessments -Spelling Tests -Wordly Wise Tests -Informal Reading Assessments || The Big Question || April- May || What Makes A Good Story? || -Folktales -Plays -Trickster Tales -Telling Tales -Fairy Tales || **Reading:** -Make Inferences -Summarize -Compare ans Contrast -Character, Setting, and Plot -Prefixes -Words with Final Stable Syllable -Words with Vowel Team Syllables -R-Controlled Vowel Syllables -Suffixes -Adjectives and Articles -Adjectives that Compare -Adverbs -Prepositions -Sentence Combining -Wordly Wise Book 3 Units 11-15 -Vocabulary that goes with each individual story -Journal Responces to the Stories -Persuasive writing || Treasures Grade Three Book Two || Treasures-Spelling
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Wordly Wise Book 3

Leveled readers: -The Fox's Banquet -Storytellers of the World -How Animals Brought Fire to People -From Farm to Dinner Table:Food's Great Journey -Magpie's Mystery - || -End of Unit assessments -Spelling tests -Wordly Wise Tests -Informal reading Assessments || (units 1-15) || Book 3 (units 1-15) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   || (One each grading Period) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || (400 pages per grading period) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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 * *Wordly Wise || Book 2
 * *Novel Studies: || -How To Eat Fried Worms || -Bunnicula || -Shiloh || -Charlotte's Web ||  ||   ||   ||
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