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

In this lesson, students continue to build their reading skills by asking questions and reading sections of the text, Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures. Students continue to build their general knowledge about frogs by reading selections about life cycle, skin, and habitat.

In this lesson, students build their reading skills by asking questions and reading sections of the text, Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures. Students build their general knowledge about frogs by reading selections about life cycle, skin, and habitat.

In this lesson, students continue to build their reading skills by asking questions and reading sections of the text, Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures. Students continue to build their general knowledge about frogs by reading selections about life cycle, skin, and habitat.

Students will use non-fiction books on the subject of spiders to find key details in the text that lead them to the main idea. Students will use a graphic organizer that shows the concept as a math problem in which the key details from the text are added up to find the main idea. At the end of the lesson, students will create a poster utilizing key details and main idea from a book about an arachnid.

This resource, which is a direct download, is a lesson plan for "Aero and Office Mike" by Joan Plummer Russell. "Aero and Officer Mike is an informational text about a police officer and his partner, a dog named Aero. Information about their daily routine, Aero's special talents, and Officer Mike's training is included.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

To scaffold, AVID offers 2 and 3 column notes for different grades. See link at the bottom of the document.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

To scaffold, AVID offers 2 and 3 column notes for different grades. See link at the bottom of the document.

In this lesson, collaborative groups will read a variety of American tall tales, then report elements of their story to the whole class. Students add story information to a collaborative, whole-class character study matrix that summarizes all the stories. In a writing activity, students compare two characters of their choice. The lesson process is applicable to any set of related texts.

This annotating bookmark pairs great with fictional texts to help students understand what they are reading.

This annotating bookmark pairs great with fictional texts to help students understand what they are reading.

This lesson is for Grade 3 on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

In this informational text, LeeAnn Blankenship discusses the success of Willard Wigan, a famous artist who creates sculptures that can only be seen using a microscope. As students read, they take notes on why Willard creates tiny art.

In this informational text, LeeAnn Blankenship discusses the success of Willard Wigan, a famous artist who creates sculptures that can only be seen using a microscope. As students read, they take notes on why Willard creates tiny art.

This resource uses google slides to allow students to set a quarterly reading goal, choose from a variety of “book finisher activities,” and make a slide for each book.  Students complete an activity from the choice board, which is aligned to 3rd grade R.L. and R.I. standards, and then complete the activity on a google slide.

In this lesson from Expeditionary Learning, students will imagine themselves in the role of the main characters of That Book Woman by Heather Henson. They will discover the motivations of the characters through role-playing and investigating the illustrations in the text. Students will use an informational text to investigate why it might be difficult to get books to people, as it was in That Book Woman. This is Lesson 1 of 17 from the Grade 3 Curriculum Map Unit 3, Module 1: http://engageny.org/resource/grade-3-ela-module-1-unit-3 .

In this author study, students listen to four books by author Leo Lionni over the course of multiple days. Each reading is followed by discussion focusing on literary elements and comparing characters, themes,settings, and plots. After discussion, students participate in creating and organizing information on a large matrix which depicts the main elements of that day’s story. During the lessons, the matrix helps students review and retell each story and to compare details of two or more stories at a time. On the final day of this lesson, individual students choose any two books to compare using a Venn diagram.

In this lesson, students read Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle in chunks of three to five pages, each of while corresponds to a main idea about adaptations: habitat, predators and prey, and life cycle.

In this lesson, students continue to compare and contrast sections of two texts about the poison dart frog.

In this lesson, students continue to compare and contrast sections of two texts about the poison dart frog.