Third Grade Language Arts

Language Arts 300 online focuses on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Reading–introduces students to basic reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and facts and opinions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of short stories, a short play, and haiku poetry. Writing–develops students’ understanding of sentence structure, providing hands-on experience with complete sentences and parts of speech; introduces students to roots and affixes, and basic word relationships, including homographs, synonyms, and antonyms; develops students’ vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, haiku poetry, short stories, and friendly letters. Special Topics–introduces basic research skills, including the use of atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspaper and magazine articles, and textbooks.

Curriculum Focus

• Understand and recognize rules for capitalization and vowels, as well as identifying a main idea.
• Write complete sentences with proper capitalization and organize words into alphabetical order.
• Apply understanding of dictionary use, identifying word parts, and defining vocabulary.
• Differentiate parts of speech, irregular vowel sounds, as well as practicing reading comprehension strategies.
• Use commas properly and recognize words with silent letters.
• Identify cause and effect in a passage, recognize homographs, and read and understand Haiku poetry.
• Use suffixes and pronouns to improve writing such as friendly letters, as well as applying strategies for following directions.
• Read and describe parts of a play and recognize root words and adjectives that compare.
• Apply reading strategies of classifying, references, and predictions, as well as write thank-you letters.​