ELA YEAR AT A GLANCE THIRD GRADE
ELA
Genre
Strategy
Reading
Writing
Language Arts
Month
Aug./Sept.
Listening
Fiction
Predicting/
Set up Reader’s Workshop
Set up Guided Reading
Visualizing
October
Speaking/
Drama
Making
Connections
Main Idea
Respond to Informational Text
Set up Writer’s Workshop
Root words/Affixes
Procedures
Writing complete sentences
FATP (Form Audience Topic
Purpose)
Use capital letters
Ideas
Ideas
Write a Narrative
Write a Narrative
Paragraphs
Paragraphs
Sequencing
Write Simple/ Compound and complex
sentences
Make Connections(text to self, to text, to world)
Fluency
Speaking and
Listening
Use correct punctuation
Read with
Fluency
Compare and Contrast (two texts)
Respond to Literature
Setting, theme, plot, mood
November
Informational Questioning
Sequencing
Steps in a Process
Text
Steps in a Process
Verbs
Academic Language
Academic Language
Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms and Antonyms
Questioning (QAR)
Questioning Answer Relationships
Read with
Fluency
Verb Agreements
Present a How
To
Conjunctions (and, but, or)
Questioning (QAR)
Questioning Answer Relationships
December
Poetry
Questioning
Questioning
Figurative Language
Poetry
Word Choice
Point of View (narrator, first person, and third person)
Author’s Purpose
Figurative Language
(personification, alliteration,
hyperbole, metaphor, simile
Adjectives and Adverbs
Ask and
answer
questions
ELA YEAR AT A GLANCE THIRD GRADE
January
Fables
Summarizing
Information Text Features
idiom)
Lessons /Morals
Informative
Reference Materials
Explanatory
Dictionary Skills
Gathering Information
Alphabetical Order
Summarizing and Recounting Stories
Myths
Informational Text
Cause and Effect
Conventions
Reading with
fluency
Parts of Speech
Syllables
Definition
February
Mystery
Inferring
Characters
Character Analysis
Sentence Fluency
Possessives
Reading with
Fluency
Speak with
Correct
Grammar
Biography
Informational Text Biography
March
Author Study
Text Structure
Text Structure
Opinion
Syllable Patterns
Visual Elements (illustrations, captions, graphics , maps,
graphs)
Voice
Multiple Meaning Words
Research for Report
Connecting
Advertisements
Bias/Exaggerations
April
Fantasy
Synthesizing and
Clarifying
Synthesize and Clarify
Cause and Effect
Distinguishing Literal and Nonliteral
Meaning
Collaborative
Discussions
Shades of Meaning
May/June
Technical
text
Synthesizing and
Clarifying
Technical texts
Chapter books
Recounting central message
Theme
Voice
Create audio recording
Writing friendly and business
letter
Report on topics
Make audio
recording
ELA YEAR AT A GLANCE THIRD GRADE