Third/Fourth Grade ELA

Best for Ages 7-9
45-minute course

This all-inclusive weekly English Language Arts course aligns with Common Core standards, covering reading, writing, listening, and speaking with engaging activities and visuals.

Class Structure

Each class will be structured as follows:
Review prior class material
Learn new concepts
Group practice guided by the teacher
Supported individual practice
Sharing
Game to review and reinforce (time permitting)

Our comprehensive third-grade English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum is designed for reading, writing, and presentations. Each unit includes six twice weekly 45-minute classes, aligned with Common Core standards for 3rd and 4th grade. Perfect for homeschooling, supporting ELA curricula, or after-school enrichment. This course provides a rich learning experience for every student.

Learning

Unit One: Vocabulary -focus on learning new vocabulary through the concepts of synonyms, antonyms, suffixes, homophones, and idioms. Learners will be guided to use a dictionary to help learn definitions and the target concept. They will be encouraged to use the concepts in writing and share their work with their peers.

Class 1: Synonyms
Class 2: Antonyms
Class 3: Prefixes
Class 4: Suffixes
Class 5: Homophones
Class 6: Idioms

Unit Two: Processing -use the book The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Job Scieszka and select non-fiction articles to learn and practice skills of predicting what might happen next, the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing, visualizing what a text is trying to illustrate and writing in a way to help others visualize, the purpose and power of questioning story plots, and learning to identify and write text written with clarity.

Class 1: Predict
Class 2: Summarize
Class 3: Paraphrase
Class 4: Visualize
Class 5: Question
Class 6: Clarify

Unit Three: Literature- read select literature to focus on the main ideas and themes of the story, and learn and practice skills that include identifying and using story elements such as characters, settings, plots, conflicts, and resolutions to form ideas around inferences, conclusions, and generalizations.

Class 1: Inferences, conclusions, generalization
Class 2: Main Idea, theme, supporting details
Class 3: Summarizing and paraphrasing text
Class 4: Identifying and comparing and contrasting characters
Class 5: Identifying and describing settings
Class 6: Identifying the plot, conflict, and resolution with story elements

Unit Four: Paragraph Writing- learn different types of paragraphs and practice writing them, introduction of grammar points to include in writing

Class 1: Parts and Types of Paragraphs
Class 2: Opinion Paragraphs
Class 3: Narrative Paragraphs
Class 4: Descriptive Paragraphs
Class 5: Informational Paragraphs
Class 6: Persuasive Paragraphs

Unit Five: Comprehending Informational Text Part 1- read select informational texts to determine and understand the main idea and supporting details, decipher non-literal meanings, work out the point of view and author's purpose, and compare and contrast similar texts

Class 1: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Class 2: Non-Literal Meanings
Class 3: Context Clues and Point of View
Class 4: Author's Purpose
Class 5: Compare and Contrast Informational Text
Class 6: Academic Vocabulary

Unit Six: Comprehending Information Text Part 2- read select informational texts to decipher charts and graphs, learn about sequential orders, fact and opinion, cause and effect, and summarizing text

Class 1: Charts and Graphs
Class 2: More Advanced Vocabulary
Class 3: Sequential Order
Class 4: Facts vs. Opinion
Class 5: Cause and Effect
Class 6: Summarizing texts

Unit 7: Tall Tales and Fairy Tales- read select tall tales and fairy tales to explore this type of text and analyze their parts, as well as writing one of each

Class 1: Tall Tales Exploration
Class 2: Tall Tales Analyzation
Class 3: Write a Tall Tall
Class 4: Fairy Tales Exploration and Analyzation
Class 5: Fairy Tale Comparison
Class 6: Write a Fairy Tale

Unit 8: Poetry- read select poetry pieces and learn about the different types of poetry while analyzing their central message, as well as writing different types

Class 1: Intro and Vocab part 1
Class 2: Intro and Vocab part 2
Class 3: Identify and Analyze
Class 4: Comparing Like Pieces
Class 5: Writing using Key Words and Objects
Class 6: Writing Acrostics and Haikus

Unit 9: Introduction to Research- Learn what plagiarism is and explore the basics of how to research and use online sources

Class 1: Plagiarism
Class 2: Beginning Research
Class 3: Using Search Engines (Google)
Class 4: Evaluating Sources
Class 5: So your Research
Class 6: Citations and Projects

Unit 10: Essays- Learn the process of writing an essay and produce a multi-paragraph narrative essay with plenty of teacher feedback along the way

Class 1: Process and Parts of an Essay
Class 2: Brainstorm and Outline
Class 3: Outline Completion, Drafting
Class 4: Draft
Class 5: Peer Reviews and Revising
Class 6: Final Format (MLA style) and Share

Unit 11: Essays- Learn the process of writing an essay and produce a multi-paragraph explanatory essay with plenty of teacher feedback along the way

Class 1: Process and Parts of an Essay
Class 2: Brainstorm and Outline
Class 3: Outline Completion, Drafting
Class 4: Draft
Class 5: Peer Reviews and Revising
Class 6: Final Format (MLA style) and Share

Unit 12: Essays- Learn the process of writing an essay and produce a multi-paragraph persuasive essay with plenty of teacher feedback along the way

Class 1: Process and Parts of an Essay
Class 2: Brainstorm and Outline
Class 3: Outline Completion, Drafting
Class 4: Draft
Class 5: Peer Reviews and Revising
Class 6: Final Format (MLA style) and Share

Unit 13: Note-Taking and Creative Writing- Learn and practice taking notes on text and videos with 3 different methods and write creatively using story elements and dice for inspiration

Class 1: Note-Taking Key Word Outline
Class 2: Note-Taking Concept Maps
Class 3: Note-Taking Sketch Notes
Class 4: Creative Writing 1
Class 5: Creative Writing 2
Class 6: Creative Writing 3

Miscellaneous

This class has 72 individual sessions and will run for 36 weeks with 2 sessions a week.
Classes are stand-alone sessions, so students can enroll and withdraw at any time.