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Language Arts -3rd Grade Lesson Plans
Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school. It is popular as a third grade homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and for summer study. If you are just learning about Time4Learning, we'd suggest first looking at our interactive lesson demos.
The lesson plans below provide a detailed list of the language arts and language arts extensions, with brief activity descriptions and learning activity (LA) numbers. Additional resources related to third grade language arts are also provided.
Members often use this page as a resource for more detailed planning, to choose specific activities using the activity finder or to compare our curriculum with state standards.
Third grade language arts is organized into two large sections:
- Language Arts - 179 Activities
- Language Arts Extensions - 104 Activities
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| Chapter 1 - "Vocabulary Skills"Students will expand and apply knowledge of grade level appropriate vocabulary. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Synonyms - The student will demonstrate knowledge by determining the meaning of synonyms from grade level appropriate vocabulary, by correctly choosing a given word or phrase that means the same thing, in reading activities that incorporate explicit instruction and application. |
R3002
R3003
R3004
R3005 |
| Antonyms - The student will demonstrate knowledge by determining the meaning of antonyms from grade level appropriate vocabulary, by correctly choosing a given word or phrase that means the opposite, in reading activities that incorporate explicit instruction and application. |
R3007
R3008
R3009
R3010 |
| Prefixes - The student will be able to analyze and determine the correct meaning of a word, based on the prefix of the root word or how the prefix is used in the context of a passage. |
R3012
R3013
R3014
R3015 |
| Suffixes - The student will be able to analyze and determine the correct meaning of a word, based on the suffix of the root word or how the suffix is used in the context of a passage. |
R3017
R3018
R3019
R3020 |
| Homophones - The student will be able to identify and select the appropriate homophone or word that sounds the same, based on the context of a passage which fits the best meaning of the given word or phrase. |
R3022
R3023
R3024
R3025 |
| Idioms - The student will be able to identify and analyze the author's use of idioms, based on the context of a passage and how these expressions are used in literal and interpretative information. |
R3027
R3028
R3029
R3030 |
| Chapter 2 - "Process Skills: Think Alouds"Students will apply comprehension strategies to literary and expository texts using think aloud prompts and scaffolded support. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Think Aloud Level 1 - Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying with extensive scaffolding and support, through think aloud prompts. |
R3108
R3109
R3110
R3111 |
| Think Aloud Level 2 - Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying with scaffolding and support, through think aloud prompts. |
R3112
R3113
R3114 |
| Think Aloud Level 3 - Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying to independently read and comprehend texts with minimal think aloud support. |
R3115 R3116 |
| Chapter 3 - "Comprehension"Students will apply comprehension strategies to literary and expository texts. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Summarizing - Develop summaries or paraphrase information from literary or expository text containing context clues. |
R3044
R3045
R3046 |
| Characters - Identify characters, and compare and contrast characters within a literary text. |
R3104
R3105
R3106 |
| Setting - Identify and describe the setting(s) in a literary text. |
R3098
R3099
R3107 |
| Plot - Identify plot by using story elements including the main problem and solution. |
R3101
R3102
R3103 |
| Main Idea & Supporting Details - Non-Fiction - Identify the main idea(s) using the supporting details in an expository text. |
R3048
R3049
R3050 |
| Main Idea and Theme - Fiction - Identify the main idea(s) or theme(s), distinguishing them/it from supporting details in a literary text. |
R3052
R3053
R3054 |
| Sequential Order - Identify literary or expository text that is organized in sequential/chronological order using words (first, next, last, then, finally, etc.) or phrases (to begin with, in addition to, etc.) to signal sequence or chronology. |
R3076
R3077
R3078 |
| Fact and Opinion - Distinguish between fact and opinion in an expository text. |
R3120
R3121
R3122 |
| Charts and Graphs - Read and interpret charts and graphs. |
R3091
R3092
R3093 |
| Cause and Effect - Identify and distinguish between cause and effect in expository and literary texts. |
R3095
R3096
R3097 |
| Author's Purpose - Identify and use knowledge of the author's purpose to comprehend the writing of a literary or expository text. |
R3057
R3058
R3059 |
| Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - Use knowledge, information, and ideas from literary or expository texts to make inferences about the text (e.g., make inferences, draw conclusions, make generalizations, infer sequence of events, and infer a character's feelings, or traits). |
R3037
R3039
R3041
R3038
R3040
R3042 |
| Compare and Contrast - Compare and contrast characters, settings, ideas, information and/or plot within a text or between two or more genre sources (literary or expository), that includes figurative language such as similes. |
R3080
R3082
R3084
R3081
R3083
R3085 |
| Chapter 4 - "State Simulation Assessments"Students will apply comprehension skills to literary and expository texts that simulate high stakes assessments. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| State Simulation Test - Students will demonstrate knowledge of comprehension skills on grade level appropriate literary and expository passages, with questions that simulate a high-stakes assessment. |
R3117
R3118
R3119 |
| Chapter 5 - "Family - ILA"Student will identify story elements and make inferences and draw conclusions based on information in the story, Zero Grandparents. Student will understand elements of character development and infer character traits. Student will use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery, and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. Authentic fiction literature is included. |
34228
34229
34230
34231 |
| Language Arts - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34232
34233
34234
34235
34236 |
| Chapter 6 - "Community - ILA"An integrated thematic chapter on community engages students in a series of activities that serves to enhance reading, writing, and thinking skills. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery, and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. |
34237
34238
34239
34240 |
| Language Arts - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34241
34242
34243
34244
34245 |
| Chapter 7 - "Friendship - ILA"An integrated thematic chapter on friendship engages students in a series of activities that serves to enhance reading, writing, and thinking skills. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. Authentic fiction literature is included. |
34246
34247
34248
34249 |
| Language Arts - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34250
34251
34252
34253
34254 |
| Chapter 8 - "Tall Tales - ILA"An integrated thematic chapter on tall tales engages students in a series of activities that serves to enhance reading, writing, and thinking skills. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery, and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. |
34273
34274
34275
34276 |
| Language Art - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34277
34278
34279
34280
34281 |
| Chapter 9 - "Folktales - ILA"An integrated thematic chapter on folktales engages students in a series of activities that serves to enhance reading, writing, and thinking skills. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery, and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. |
34255
34256
34257
34258 |
| Language Arts - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34259
34260
34261
34262
34263 |
| Chapter 10 - "Fairy Tales - ILA"An integrated thematic chapter on fairy tales engages students in a series of activities that serves to enhance reading, writing, and thinking skills. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. Authentic Caldecott-winning fictional literature is included. |
34264
34265
34266
34267 |
| Language Arts - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34268
34269
34270
34271
34272 |
| Chapter 11 - "Animals - ILA"An integrated thematic chapter on animals engages students in a series of activities that serves to enhance reading, writing, and thinking skills. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading & Responding - The student will learn thematic content through discovery and achieve comprehension by reading literature with emphasis on vocabulary. Authentic fiction literature is included. |
34220
34221
34222
34283 |
| Language Arts - Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the student will practice language arts skills. These activities have direct instruction, practice, and scored assessment. |
34223
34224
34225
34226
34282 |
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| Chapter 1 - "Reading Comprehension - Extension"The learner will use a variety of strategies to read, comprehend and respond to a diverse collection of texts and materials. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Reading Cues - Use a variety of cues (such as prefixes, suffixes, root words, multiple meanings, antonyms, and synonyms) to recognize words. |
34001
34005
34039 |
| Use of Reference Books - Use various reference materials, including a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or a glossary to determine comprehension of words. |
3218
3219 |
| Sequencing Skills - Demonstrate correct sequencing skills, including alphabetical, chronological, and numerical order, by using resources, such as a card catalog, encyclopedia, or telephone directory. |
3220
3221 |
| Graphic Organizing - Construct a story map, graph, or chart to demonstrate understanding of written text in fiction and nonfiction. |
3154
3155
34015 |
| Summarizing Skills - Restate and summarize information contained within written material (to demonstrate comprehension). |
3157 |
| Comprehension Tactics - Use critical, interpretative, and evaluative processes to demonstrate understanding of texts. |
3158
3159 |
| Explaining Inferences - Explain inferences from texts, such as determining fact and opinion, cause and effect, fantasy and reality. |
3226
3227 |
| Mathematics Vocabulary - Demonstrate increased vocabulary and enhanced language use. Unit 1: Words from mathematics, including diagram, graphs, charts, tables, computation, operations, centimeter, geometric, patterns, and estimates. |
3160
3161 |
| Social Studies Vocabulary - Demonstrate increased vocabulary and enhance language use. Unit 2: Words from social studies, including geography, culture, democracy, citizenship, government, chronology, political, historical, economics, and immigrant. |
3162
3163 |
| Science Vocabulary - Demonstrate increased vocabulary and enhanced language use. Unit 3: Words from science, including pulley, friction, condensation, evaporation, data, energy, interpretation, exploration, physical properties, and vertebrae. |
3164
3165 |
| Chapter 2 - "Cause & Effect - Extension"Identify cause-and-effect relations in a variety of literary texts. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Use of Terminology - Demonstrate ability to use the terminology character, setting, and, plot and to know the similarities and differences with each term. |
3228
3229 |
| Literary Terms - Identify literary terms, such as title, author, playwright, illustrator, act, scene, dialogue, and style. |
3230
3231 |
| Major Themes - Identify major themes across literary works. |
3232
3233 |
| Identify Cause & Effect - Identify cause-and-effect relations in a variety of literary texts. |
3167 |
| Biography & Autobiography - Understand the defining characteristics of a biography and an autobiography. |
3168
3169 |
| Elements of Fiction - Understand the defining characteristics of fiction, and read the novel Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary. |
3170
3171 |
| Elements of Fairy Tales - Understand the defining characteristics of fairy tales, and read a fairy tale selection. |
3234
3235 |
| Elements of Myths - Understand the defining characteristics of myths, and read a selection from Norse mythology. |
3174
3175 |
| Common Sayings & Phrases - Demonstrate understanding of the meanings of the following common sayings and phrases: "actions speak louder than words," "beggars can't be choosers," "when in Rome do as the Romans do," "a feather in your cap," and "rule the roost." |
3238
3239 |
| Chapter 3 - "Grammar - Extension"The learner will apply grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Use of Periods - Review and correctly use a period in simple and compound sentences. |
3240
3241 |
| Use of Question Marks - Review and correctly use question marks to end sentences. |
3180
3181 |
| Use of Exclamation Marks - Correctly use exclamation marks in interjections and exclamatory sentences, such as "Hey!" and "What a big boy you are!" |
3242
3243 |
| Use of Commas - Uses conventions of puncuation (comma in a series, dates, and addresses; quotation marks to indicate dialogue; apostrophes to indicate singular possession; periods in abbreviations). |
3182
3183 |
| Use of Apostrophes - Correctly use apostrophes in contractions and possessives. |
3244
3245 |
| Use of Nouns & Proper Nouns - Identify and correctly use nouns and proper nouns in simple and complex sentences. |
3184
3185 |
| Use of Pronouns - Identify and correctly use pronouns in simple and complex sentences. |
3246
3247 |
| Use of Verbs - Identify and correctly use verbs in simple and complex sentences. |
3186
3278
3279 |
| Use of Adjectives - Identify and correctly use adjectives in simple and complex sentences. |
3248
3249
34016 |
| Use of Adverbs - Identify and correctly use adverbs in simple sentences. |
3188
3189
34017 |
| Parts of Speech - Recognize the following parts of speech: interjections, conjunctions, and prepositions. |
3250
3251
33997
34007 |
| Sentence Types - Identify and use the following sentence types: declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory. |
3252
3253
3262 |
| Subject & Predicate - Identify subject and predicate in single-clause sentences. |
3192
3193 |
| Letter Writing - Use established punctuation and grammatical conventions when writing a letter. |
3254
3255 |
| Singular Forms of Nouns - Identify and use singular forms of regular nouns. |
3256
3257 |
| Plural Forms of Nouns - Identify and use plural forms of regular nouns. |
3196
3197 |
| Principles of Agreement - Use principles of agreement between subject and verb, noun and pronoun. |
3258
3259
3263 |
| Peer Editing - Edit others' writings by using the established conventions of punctuation and grammar. |
3198
3199
33996 |
| Chapter 4 - "Conventions of Spelling - Extension"The learner will use appropriate conventions when spelling and proofreading words with regular and variant spelling patterns. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Spelling Compound Words - Knows and applies rules of spelling compound words such as everything, butterfly, and outside. |
33998 |
| Homophones - Knows and applies rules of spelling. Words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings (homonyms/homophones); such as flower/flour, tale/tail, peace/piece, break/brake. |
33994 |
| Spelling Contractions - Consistently apply rules of spelling. Unit 9: Contractions; 20 words in which an apostrophe takes the place of one or more letters, such as that's, haven't, and you'll. |
34037 |
| Chapter 5 - "Speaking and Listening - Extension"The learner will demonstrate competence in speaking and listening in a variety of situations. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Listening Effectively - Demonstrate the ability to listen effectively and respectively. Understand how to ask appropriate questions, how to paraphrase to confirm comprehension, and how to respond to comments and questions from the speaker. |
34021
34040 |
| Listening to Oral Reports - Demonstrate the ability to listen and to respond to a variety of oral presentations (including stories, dramas, and informational reports). |
3202
3203 |
| Chapter 6 - "Writing Skills - Extension"The learner will write to communicate ideas and information in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Prewriting Strategies - Use a variety of strategies to prepare for writing (lists, story maps, webs, group related ideas, and graphic organizers). |
3268
3269
33993 |
| Elements of a Paragraph - Demonstrate understanding of the elements of a paragraph by using a topic sentence and supporting sentences in a main idea. |
3206
3207 |
| The Writing Process - Use the steps of the writing process (plan, draft, write, revise, edit, print, and share) to write a letter to a friend. |
3270
3271
3272 |
| Fictional Short Stories - Write a fictional short story using the steps of the writing process. |
3208
3209 |
| Response to Literature - Write a response to literature by using the steps of the writing process. |
3273 |
| Informational Report - Write an informational report using the steps of the writing process. |
3211 |
| Poetry - Write a poem using the steps of the writing process. |
3274
3275 |
| Reference Material Uses - Understand the use of a variety of reference materials to gather information to write research reports, such as a dictionary, an encyclopedia, texts, maps, charts, and photos. |
3276
3277 |
| Occasions for Writing - Writes for a variety of occassions, audiences and purposes (letters to invite or thank, poems or stories to entertain, information to record). |
34028 |
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