LAN0300: 3rd Grade Language Arts
05/01/2024 to 05/30/2025 • Modified 04/29/2024Course Description
This language arts course utilizes engaging activities and technologies to help students learn new spelling, vocabulary, correct word usage, punctuation, capitalization, and the utilization of the parts of speech. The entire language arts course is interwoven with God’s truths and principles. The students benefit from literature selections that help develop strong reading comprehension and fluency skills. Additionally, creative writing strategies are used in this course to assist students in expressing their thoughts effectively through various writing styles.
Prerequisite
Second Grade Language Arts
Schedule
Module 1: The Chalk Box Kid
- Week 1: Predictions and The Chalk Box Kid, Chapters 1-3
- Week 2: Ask and Answer Questions & The Chalk Box Kid, Chapters 4-6
- Week 3: Conflict and Resolution & The Chalk Box Kid, Chapters 7-9
Module 2: Flat Stanley
- Week 4: Flat Stanley, Chapters 1-2 & Pronouns
- Week 5: Flat Stanley, Chapter 3 & Compare and Contrast
- Week 6: Flat Stanley, Chapters 4-15 and Theme
Module 3: The Boxcar Children
- Week 7: The Boxcar Children, Chapters 1-4, Setting
- Week 8: The Boxcar Children, Chapters 5-8, Summarizing & Adjectives
- Week 9: The Boxcar Children Project & Review Week
Module 4: A to Z Mysteries – Detective Camp
- Week 10: Detective Camp, Chapters 1-3, Opinion Writing, Singular Possessive Nouns
- Week 11: Detective Camp, Chapters 4-7 & Summarizing Plot
- Week 12: Detective Camp, Chapters 8-10 & Pronoun-Verb Contractions
- Week 13: Grammar Review & Project
Module 5: The Courage of Sarah Noble
- Week 14: The Courage of Sarah Noble, Chapters 1-3, Common & Proper Nouns
- Week 15: The Courage of Sarah Noble, Chapters 4-7
- Week 16: The Courage of Sarah Noble, Chapters 8-11
- Week 17: Comparing and Contrasting Story Elements
- Week 18: Quarter Review Week
Module 6: Henry Huggins
- Week 19: Henry Huggins, Chapters 1-2, Predicting and Questioning
- Week 20: Henry Huggins, Chapters 3-4, Compound Subjects
- Week 21: Henry Huggins, Chapters 5-6
- Week 22: Henry Huggins Review & Tests
Module 7: Poetry
- Week 23: Poetry and Commas in a Series
- Week 24: Analyzing Poetry
- Week 25: Comparing and Contrasting Two Versions of a Story
- Week 26: Compare and Contrast a Fable & a Poem
- Week 27: Quarter Review Week
Module 8: Nonfiction
- Week 28: Introduction to Nonfiction
- Week 29: Nonfiction Text Features
- Week 30: Fiction Passages
- Week 31: Nonfiction Passages Continued
- Week 32: Fiction Passages Continued
- Week 33: Review of Fiction & Nonfiction Passages
Module 9: Story Elements & Book Report
- Week 34: Story Elements – Plot, Conflict & Short Stories
- Week 35: Story Elements – Rising Action, Falling Action, Climax, Summary & Nonfiction
- Week 36: Student Selection Book Report Project & Quarter Review
