Reflecting the expectations, activities in Language Arts (English) series cover:
| Reasoning and Critical Thinking |
- Story concepts: distinguishing main ideas and supporting details; sequencing plot events; identifying story elements; plot, character, setting
- Comprehension: discriminating between true and false, fact and fiction, cause and effect; making inferences from information provided; using familiar vocabulary and context to determine meaning of a passage with unfamiliar words
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| Understanding Form and Style |
- Structure: using knowledge of organization and characteristics of forms of writing as a guide before and during reading to predict events and meaning
- Recognizing different forms: fables, poems, stories, plays
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| Vocabulary Building |
- Using a variety of strategies to determine meaning of unfamiliar words: context of sentence, breaking words into syllables, phonics skills
- Adding new words: using specialized terms for different subject areas
- Word structure: continuing work on compound words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Developing dictionary skills: finding homophones, synonyms and antonyms
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| Use of language Conventions |
- Grammar: past tense verbs, regular and irregular; noun plurals and spellings
- Punctuation: apostrophes in contractions; abbreviations; end punctuation
- Capitalization: proper nouns, titles, countries, nationalities, languages
- Spelling: commonly confused words—to/too/two; their/they’re/there; can/may
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Also see: Grade 3 Math Curriculum
