Class 3 English
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• 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

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• 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