Are you searching for the best English curriculum for your Grade 3 child? Our Grade 3 English program builds on foundational skills and introduces more advanced reading, writing, speaking, and listening concepts. With engaging lessons and activities, students expand their vocabulary, improve comprehension, and develop confidence in expressing themselves. Our experienced tutors provide personalized support to ensure every child excels, no matter their starting point. Explore the curriculum below to see how we help Grade 3 students achieve English language success!

Grade 3 English Curriculum

Reading

Phonics and Word Recognition

Identify and know the meaning of common prefixes and derivational suffixes

Decode words with common Latin suffixes (e.g., -able, -ment, -tion)

Decode multisyllable words

Read irregularly spelled words

Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills

Fluency

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding

Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding

Writing

Text Types and Purposes

Write opinion pieces: introduce topic, state opinion, organize reasons, provide concluding statement

Write informative texts: introduce topic, develop with facts and details, use linking words, provide concluding statement

Write narratives: establish situation, introduce characters, organize event sequence, use dialogue and descriptions, provide closure

Production and Distribution of Writing

With guidance, produce writing appropriate to task and purpose

Develop and strengthen writing through planning, revising, and editing

Use technology to produce and publish writing

Demonstrate keyboarding skills

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Conduct short research projects that build knowledge

Recall information from experiences or gather information from sources

Take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into categories

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration

Engage effectively in range of collaborative discussions

Determine main ideas and supporting details from texts read aloud

Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Report on a topic or text with appropriate facts and relevant details

Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems

Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation

Language

Conventions of Standard English

Explain function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns

Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood, friendship)

Form and use regular and irregular verbs

Form and use simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk)

Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs

Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences

Capitalize appropriate words in titles

Use commas in addresses

Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue

Form and use possessives

Use conventional spelling patterns

Use spelling patterns and generalizations

Use reference materials to check spelling

Knowledge of Language

Choose words and phrases for effect

Recognize differences between spoken and written standard English

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Use context clues to determine meaning of words/phrases

Determine meaning of words using affixes and root words

Use glossaries or dictionaries to determine precise meaning

Distinguish literal from nonliteral meanings of words

Identify real-life connections between words and their use

Distinguish shades of meaning among related words

Acquire and use academic and domain-specific vocabulary

Literature

Key Ideas and Details

Ask and answer questions referring explicitly to the text

Recount stories and determine central message, lesson, or moral

Describe characters and explain how their actions contribute to sequence of events

Craft and Structure

Determine meaning of words and phrases in text, including literal and nonliteral language

Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems (chapter, scene, stanza)

Distinguish own point of view from that of narrator or characters

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Explain how illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by words

Compare and contrast themes, settings, plots of stories by same author

Read and comprehend literature at grade level

Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

Ask and answer questions referring explicitly to the text

Determine main idea and recount key details

Describe relationship between series of events, concepts, or steps

Craft and Structure

Determine meaning of academic and domain-specific words

Use text features and search tools (keywords, sidebars, hyperlinks)

Distinguish own point of view from that of author

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Use information from illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding

Describe logical connection between sentences and paragraphs (comparison, cause/effect, sequence)

Compare and contrast important points and key details in two texts on same topic