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Class 3 English

  • Reading foundations

    • Short and long vowels

      • Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words

      • Spell rhyming words to answer riddles

    • Blends

      • Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend

    • Open and closed syllables

      • Spell words with open and closed syllables

    • Consonant-l-e

      • Spell consonant-l-e words

    • Irregular words

      • Spell the sight word

 

  • Reading strategies

    • Main idea

      • Use key details to determine the main idea

      • Determine the main idea of a passage

    • Theme

      • Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales

    • Author's purpose

      • Identify the purpose of a text

    • Text structure

      • Determine the order of events in informational texts

      • Compare and contrast in informational texts

      • Match causes with effects

      • Match causes and effects in informational texts

      • Match problems with their solutions

      • Identify text structures

    • Sensory details

      • Sort sensory details

    • Literary devices

      • Determine the meanings of similes

    • Point of view

      • Distinguish characters' points of view

    • Inference

      • Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

      • Draw inferences from a text

      • Make predictions about a story

    • Story elements

      • Identify story elements

    • Visual elements

      • Compare mythological illustrations

    • Literary texts: level 1

      • Read fantasy with illustrations

      • Read historical fiction with illustrations

      • Read science fiction with illustrations

      • Read realistic fiction with illustrations

    • Literary texts: level 2

      • Read realistic fiction: set 1

      • Read realistic fiction: set 2

      • Read poetry

    • Informational texts: level 1

      • Read about animals

      • Read about food

      • Read about art, music and traditions

      • Read about sports and hobbies

    • Informational texts: level 2

      • Read about famous people

      • Read about famous places

      • Read about business and technology

      • Read about science and nature

 

  • Writing strategies

    • Organizing writing

      • Put the sentences in order

      • Order items from most general to most specific

      • Organize information by main idea

    • Topic sentences

      • Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs

      • Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs

    • Writer's purpose

      • Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose

    • Linking words

      • Identify time-order words

      • Use time-order words

      • Use coordinating conjunctions

      • Use subordinating conjunctions

      • Choose the best transition

    • Opinion writing

      • Distinguish facts from opinions

      • Identify an author's statement of opinion

      • Choose reasons to support an opinion

      • Complete the opinion passage with an example

      • Complete the opinion passage with a reason

      • Complete the opinion-reason-example table

    • Descriptive details

      • Add descriptive details to sentences

      • Show character emotions and traits

      • Revise the sentence using a stronger verb

 

  • Vocabulary

  • Prefixes and suffixes

    • Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes

    • Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-

    • Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-

    • Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less

    • Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness

    • Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment

    • Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review

    • Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review

  • Greek and Latin roots

    • Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

    • Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

    • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

  • Compound words

    • Form compound words

    • Form and use compound words

  • Categories

    • Select the members of a group

    • Select the words that don't belong

  • Synonyms and antonyms

    • Choose the synonym

    • Which sentence has the same meaning?

    • Find synonyms in context

    • Choose the antonym

    • Which sentence uses an antonym?

    • Find antonyms in context

  • Homophones

    • Homophones with pictures

    • Identify homophones

    • Use the correct homophone

  • Multiple-meaning words

    • Which definition matches the sentence?

    • Which sentence matches the definition?

  • Shades of meaning

    • Describe the difference between related words

    • Positive and negative connotation

  • Idioms

    • Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression

  • Context clues

    • Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

    • Use context to identify the meaning of a word

  • Reference skills

    • Order alphabetically based on the first letter

    • Order alphabetically based on the first two letters

    • Order alphabetically based on the first three letters

    • Order alphabetically: challenge

    • Use guide words

    • Use dictionary entries

    • Use dictionary definitions

 

  • Grammar and mechanics

  • Sentences, fragments and run-ons

    • Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?

    • Identify the complete subject of a sentence

    • Identify the complete predicate of a sentence

    • Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence

    • Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

    • Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

    • Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?

    • Is the sentence simple or compound?

    • Order the words to create a sentence

  • Nouns

    • Which word is a noun?

    • Identify nouns

    • Identify nouns – with abstract nouns

    • Identify common and proper nouns

    • Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies

    • Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies

    • Is the noun singular or plural?

    • Form and use irregular plurals

    • Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives

    • Form the singular or plural possessive

    • Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

  • Pronouns

    • Identify personal pronouns

    • Choose between subject and object personal pronouns

    • Replace the noun with a personal pronoun

    • Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'

    • Identify possessive pronouns

    • Use possessive pronouns

    • Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

    • Use reflexive pronouns

  • Verb types

    • Use action verbs

    • Identify action verbs

    • Identify main verbs and helping verbs

  • Subject-verb agreement

    • Is the subject singular or plural?

    • Use the correct subject or verb

    • Pronoun-verb agreement

  • Verb tense

    • Which sentence is in the regular past tense?

    • Identify verbs in the regular past tense

    • Form and use the regular past tense

    • Identify the irregular past tense I

    • Identify the irregular past tense II

    • Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1

    • To be: use the correct form

    • To have: use the correct form

    • Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?

    • Change the sentence to future tense

  • Articles

    • Use the correct article: a or an

    • Use the correct article: a, an or the

    • Identify articles

  • Adjectives and adverbs

    • Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?

    • Identify the adjective that describes the noun

    • Identify adjectives

    • Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?

    • Identify adverbs

    • Choose between adjectives and adverbs

    • Is the word an adjective or adverb?

    • Use adjectives to compare

    • Spell adjectives that compare

    • Use adverbs to compare

  • Prepositions

    • Identify prepositions

    • Identify prepositions and their objects

    • Identify prepositional phrases

    • Prepositions: review

  • Conjunctions

    • Identify coordinating conjunctions

    • Identify subordinating conjunctions

  • Contractions

    • Pronoun-verb contractions

    • Contractions with 'not'

  • Commas

    • Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words

  • Capitalisation

    • Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect

    • Capitalising days, months and holidays

    • Capitalising the names of places and geographic features

  • Formatting

    • Greetings and closings of letters

    • Capitalising titles

    • Formatting titles

    • Formatting and capitalising titles

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