This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 3rd grade English Language Arts content.

Students are given examples and practice to recognize differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English. Students will also differentiate between contexts that call for formal English and situations where informal English is appropriate.

This interactive resource helps students make a diamante poem. Students work with the computer to create a diamante poem using specific words and/or adjectives. Students can print or save their work when finished.

In this lesson, students practice their fluency skills by performing their freaky frog poem aloud to a peer.

This lesson focuses on revising the paragraph side of the Freaky Frog trading card.

In this lesson, students use mentor texts to deepen their understanding of a text and of an author's craft or purpose.

In this module, students consider the guiding question: How do writers capture a reader's imagination? as they take a deep study of the classic tale Peter Pan.

In this lesson, students write a first draft of their Freaky Frog Trading Card paragraph in first person using vivid, precise words and phrases in their writing.

In this lesson, students build off the planning they did in Lesson 10: their Bullfrog Research matrix and their Accordion graphic organizer in order to write an informational paragraph about how a bullfrog survives.

This is a lesson for teaching contractions using literature. Students will create an anchor chart and compare it to S. Rouse's digital anchor chart to expand their knowledge of common contractions. This lesson can be used as a differentiation for advanced 2nd grade students. It was written for 3rd grade students participating in Writer's Workshop ELA block. Feel free to add on, customize for your needs. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade ELA.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade English Language Arts. 

In this lesson, students revise their Freaky Frog Trading Card paragraph in first person using vivid, precise words and phrases in their writing. Students add describing words to communicate what they have learned about how their frog survives.

This activity for gifted learners might serve as a culminating activity as part of a larger unit on fables, folktales, & myths. Students will take part in close readings of a variety of stories throughout the unit (including fables, folktales, & myths).  In this activity, gifted learners would work either individually or with a partner to closely read Amos & Boris by William Steig.  They will then work to decipher the central message(s) of the story and what fable(s) this story can be connected to.  As they read, they will pay special attention to two main details that help to convey the story:  the word choice and illustrations.  Using the central message of the story as an anchor and the saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words,” they will then argue that the Steig’s word choice and illustration do or do not support the story’s central message in the best possible way by creating an audio/visual presentation that supports their argument.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students use context to find out the meaning of words and analyze the elements that make up a word to find out its meaning. The text discusses the stages of life in the Sun. Teacher Notes for the activity are in the database as a separate resource.

Students use context to find out the meaning of words and analyze the elements that make up a word to find out its meaning. The text discusses the stages of life in the Sun. The student pages for the activity are in the database as a separate resource.