Third Grade English Language Arts
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Third Grade English Language Arts Curriculum Guide
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Third Grade English Language Arts Curriculum Guide
Week 1: I Can Answer Questions about the Story
Week 2: I Can Answer Questions about the Story
Week 3: I Can Place the Events of the Story in a
Proper Sequence
Week 4: I Can Identify Events, Characters, and the
Setting of a Story
Week 5: I Can Differentiate Between Reality and
Fantasy
Week 6: I Can Draw Conclusions Based on the Text
Week 7: I Can Determine Cause and Effect from a
Given Text
Week 8: I Can Compare and Contrast Two Elements
of the Story
Week 9: I Can Identify the Main Characters of the
Story, Describe Some of Their Character Traits, and
Identify Their Motives
Week 10: I Can Answer Questions Such as Who?
What? Where? When? And Why? About What I Have
Read
Week 11: I Can Answer True / False about What I
Have Read
Week 12: I Can Summarize the Text
Week 13: I Know the Meaning of Plot and Can
Identify It
Week 14: I Can Identify the Setting in a Story
Week 15: I Know the Meaning of Characters, Hero,
and Heroine in the Story and Can Identify Them in
What I Have Read
Week 16: I Can Differentiate Between Fact and
Opinion
Week 17: I Can Identify How the Main Character
Changes
Week 18: I Can Determine the Point of View of
Characters
Week 19: I Can Identify the Theme of the Story
Week 20: I Can Visualize the Text Based on the
Author’s Words
Week 21: I Can Identify Figurative Language
Week 22: I Can Identify Figurative Language
Week 23: I Can Identify Figurative Language
Week 24: I Can Identify Figurative Language
Week 25: I Can Identify Figurative Language
Week 26: I Can Find Connections Between a Series
of Events, Ideas, Concepts, or Steps in a Text
Week 27: I Can Compare and Contrast Different
Versions of the Same Story
Week 28: I Can Take Simple Notes about What I Am
Reading
Week 29: I Can Explain How Different Characters
Viewed the Same Events Differently
Week 30: I Can Explain the Differences Between the
Author or
Character’s Point of View and the Reader’s
Week 31: I Can Understand How a Character’s
Actions Contribute to or Advance the Plot
Week 32: I Can Describe How Parts of a Story,
Poem, or Drama Build on Other Parts
Week 33: I Can Compare and Contrast Themes or
Ideas in Two Texts about the Same Subject or by
the Same Author
Week 34: I Can Understand the Difference Between
a Biography and an Autobiography
Week 35: I Can Alphabetize Words to the Third and
Fourth Letter
Week 36: I Can Appreciate and Recognize Forms of
Poetry
