Language, Grade 3

Unit 1: Literacy Connections and Applications

Using digital tools and online spaces safely and kindly, and exploring stories and voices from many communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures.

• My rights and choices online
• Staying safe and private online
• Finding out and checking what we learn
• Noticing how videos and pictures are made
• Who made this and who is it for?
• Using digital tools to make something new
• Working together kindly online

• Seeing identity and belonging in stories
• Learning from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit stories

Unit 2: Foundations of Language

Listening and speaking well, sounding out and building words, and learning the next set of sentence, grammar, and punctuation building blocks.

• Listening and asking questions to clarify
• Using tricks to understand and notice confusion
• Speaking to build a connection with my audience
• Using gestures and expression to share meaning
• Choosing good words and full sentences

• Reading and spelling longer words
• Choosing the right spelling using position clues
• Word parts that change meaning
• Learning and using new words
• Reading smoothly and with the right expression

• Building complex sentences with adverbial clauses
• Building simple, compound, and complex sentences

• Showing ownership with possessive nouns
• Linking verbs and actions happening now
• Asking questions with which, whose, and how
• Where things are and sudden feelings

• Capital letters in dialogue and titles
• Commas and quotation marks for talking and quoting
• Joining words with apostrophes

Unit 3: Comprehension: Understanding and Responding to Texts

Reading and understanding a range of texts, noticing how they're built, making predictions, and thinking more deeply about what they mean.

• Reading and understanding a range of texts
• Describing story texts and information texts
• Using headings, an index, and text patterns
• How pictures and design connect to meaning
• Noticing how a text sounds and feels
• Whose voice is telling the story?
• Reading and viewing First Nations, Métis, and Inuit stories

• Using what I already know to make connections
• Why are we reading this?
• Guessing what happens next and adjusting
• Fixing up a confusing part
• Connecting a text to my life, other texts, and the world
• Finding the main idea and important details
• Naming which trick helped me understand

• Metaphor and assonance in texts
• Figuring out clues the text doesn't say
• Comparing and sequencing text parts
• Noticing symbols, language, and values in texts
• Whose perspective is being shown?
• Sharing my own thoughts and feelings about a text
• Connecting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit stories to today
• Naming the thinking skill that helped me

Unit 4: Composition: Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts

Planning, drafting, writing in cursive, revising, editing, and sharing our own texts.

• Choosing a topic, purpose, audience, and form
• Coming up with and building on ideas
• Finding facts from more than one source
• Putting my ideas in order
• Naming the strategy that helped me plan

• Writing a first try of my text
• Starting to write in cursive
• Showing my own feelings with words and sentence patterns
• Writing as "I" or about someone else
• Improving my writing with feedback
• Editing and proofreading my writing

• Making a final copy of my text
• Presenting my text with a strategy that fits
• Naming what helped me present and communicate