Saskatchewan · Grade 3
English Language Arts, Grade 3
Saskatchewan’s Grade 3 English course, from Comprehend and Respond to Assess and Reflect.
- Units
- 3
- Lessons
- 3
- Skills
- 14
- Provincial exam
- None
- Official curriculum
- Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
Unit by unit
Every skill in the course, with its official code.
Unit 1 · 6 skills
Comprehend and Respond
Comparing Stories to My Own Life
Comparing texts about identity to my life
I can compare a text about identity to my own experiences.
Official code: CR3.1
Comparing texts about community to my life
I can compare a text about community to my own experiences.
Official code: CR3.1
Comparing texts about our shared world to my life
I can compare a text about responsibility and working together to my own experiences.
Official code: CR3.1
Explaining how visuals show humour, emotion, and mood
I can explain my reaction to a visual text and point to features that make it funny, emotional, or moody.
Official code: CR3.2
Listening for main ideas and telling fact from opinion
I can listen for the main idea and details, tell a fact from an opinion, and compare points of view.
Official code: CR3.3
Reading fluently and explaining my reactions
I can read a text fluently and explain my reactions and connections to it.
Official code: CR3.4
The official wording · 6 outcomes
- CR3.1
- Comprehend and respond to a variety of grade-level texts (including contemporary and traditional visual, oral, written, and multimedia) that address: • identity (e.g., Spreading My Wings)
- CR3.1
- texts (including contemporary and traditional visual, oral, written, and multimedia) that address: • community (e.g., Hand in Hand)
- CR3.1
- texts (including contemporary and traditional visual, oral, written, and multimedia) that address: • social responsibility (e.g., All Together) and make comparison with personal experiences.
- CR3.2
- View and respond to grade-appropriate visual and multimedia texts (including videos, cartoons, illustrations, diagrams, charts, maps, and posters) explaining reactions and connections as well as visual features that convey humour, emotion, and mood.
- CR3.3
- Listen to and understand information, identify main ideas and supporting details, compare different ideas and points of view, and explain connections made between texts heard.
- CR3.4
- Read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate fiction, script, poetry, and non-fiction from various cultures (including First Nations and Métis) and countries (including Canada) and explain reactions and connections to texts read.
Key ideas
Comparing means finding both what is the same and what is different between a text and your own life.
Texts about identity, like trying new things and growing, often connect to experiences we have had.
Communities work together, and texts can show many ways people help 'hand in hand.'.
We can compare the human behaviours and experiences in a text, including First Nations and Métis texts, to our own.
Social responsibility means everyone doing their part, 'all together,' for a fair and caring world.
Watch out for
- Only noticing what is the same, and forgetting the differences (or the other way around).
- Retelling the text without comparing it to yourself at all.
- Assuming every community works exactly like your own.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 2 · 6 skills
Compose and Create
Creating Texts That Connect Across My Learning
Creating texts about identity across my learning
I can create a text about who I am that connects to my other learning.
Official code: CC3.1
Creating texts about helping our community
I can create a text about helping others that connects to my other learning.
Official code: CC3.1
Creating texts about communities around the world
I can create a text about the wider world that connects to my other learning.
Official code: CC3.1
Making clear representations with a purpose
I can make an easy-to-follow representation with a clear purpose.
Official code: CC3.2
Speaking in casual and more formal situations
I can speak well both in a casual chat and in a more formal short report.
Official code: CC3.3
Writing reports, stories, and letters in paragraphs
I can write a clear piece with correct paragraph structure and interesting details.
Official code: CC3.4
The official wording · 6 outcomes
- CC3.1
- Compose and create a range of visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore: • identity (e.g., Spreading My Wings)
- CC3.1
- texts that explore: • community (e.g., Helping Others)
- CC3.1
- texts that explore: • social responsibility (e.g., Communities Around the World) and make connections across areas of study.
- CC3.2
- Communicate ideas and information pertaining to topics, problems, questions, or issues by creating easy- to-follow representations with a clear purpose.
- CC3.3
- Speak to present ideas and information appropriately in informal (e.g., interacting appropriately with others to share ideas and opinions, complete tasks, and discuss concerns or problems) and some formal situations (e.g., giving oral explanations, delivering short, simple reports, demonstrating and describing basic procedures) for different audiences and purposes.
- CC3.4
- Write to communicate ideas, information, and experiences pertaining to a topic by creating easy-to-follow writing (including a short report, a procedure, a letter, a story, a short script, and a poem) with a clear purpose, correct paragraph structure, and interesting detail.
Key ideas
We can share our own identity — our growth, strengths, and interests — through pictures, talk, or writing.
Connecting our creation to other subjects, like science or social studies, makes our learning link together.
Communities are stronger when people help each other.
We can share ideas about helping through pictures, talk, or writing, and link them to what we study.
Social responsibility can reach beyond our own town to communities around the world.
Watch out for
- Keeping subjects totally separate and missing the connections.
- Creating without a clear message about who you are.
- Thinking helping is only a grown-up's job.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 3 · 2 skills
Assess and Reflect
Reflecting and Planning My Next Steps
Reflecting on my work and strategies with criteria
I can use criteria to judge my own work and name the strategies I used.
Official code: AR3.1
Setting a goal and a plan to reach it
I can set a personal goal and make a small plan for how to reach it.
Official code: AR3.2
The official wording · 2 outcomes
- AR3.1
- Reflect on and assess their viewing, listening, reading, speaking, writing, and other representing experiences and the selected strategies they have used (e.g., using class-generated criteria).
- AR3.2
- Set personal goals to view, listen, read, speak, write, and use other forms of representing more effectively and discuss a plan for achieving them.
Key ideas
Criteria are agreed-upon marks of quality, like 'has a clear beginning' — we use them to judge our work fairly.
Reflecting on strategies means naming the helpful moves we made and whether they worked.
A goal says what you want to get better at; a plan says the steps you will take to get there.
A plan makes a goal reachable — 'I will read ten minutes each night' is a plan for the goal 'read more.'.
Watch out for
- Judging work by feeling instead of the agreed criteria.
- Thinking there is nothing to reflect on once the work is done.
- Setting a goal with no plan for how to reach it.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Plan the term
Pick your term and the days you study. Each unit gets its share of the weeks and comes back a week later for a review. The last two weeks go over the whole course.
The official curriculum
This page follows Saskatchewan’s own curriculum for English Language Arts, Grade 3.
Textbooks
The textbooks Saskatchewan Ministry of Education lists for English Language Arts, Grade 3:
- Gage Cornerstones 3: Canadian Language Arts
- Nelson Literacy 3
- Nelson Spelling 3
- Turtle Island Voices Grade 3
From core resources, read October 27, 2026. curriculum.gov.sk.ca
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Questions about English Language Arts, Grade 3
What is English Language Arts, Grade 3?
Saskatchewan’s Grade 3 English course: 3 units and 14 skills, from Comprehend and Respond to Assess and Reflect.
What units are in English Language Arts, Grade 3?
1. Comprehend and Respond, 2. Compose and Create and 3. Assess and Reflect.
Is there a provincial exam for English Language Arts, Grade 3?
No. Saskatchewan gives no provincial exam for English Language Arts, Grade 3.
What textbook does English Language Arts, Grade 3 use?
The textbooks Saskatchewan Ministry of Education lists for English Language Arts, Grade 3: Gage Cornerstones 3: Canadian Language Arts, Nelson Literacy 3, Nelson Spelling 3 and Turtle Island Voices Grade 3.
What comes after English Language Arts, Grade 3?
English Language Arts, Grade 4.
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