Created for home school students and students learning from home! Come connect with other third grade students, make friends, and learn in a fun and positive classroom! This class will meet three days each week cover third grade standards for Reading /LA. We will learn and practice Vocabulary, Reading, writing and Grammar skills. We will spiral through the standards making it possible for your student to join and leave at any time. Each class will be a new mini lesson and activity. I will use my personal curriculum map to ensure we are learning appropriate third grade standards. Class will consist of hands on activities, games, group work, discussions, video clips,  lectures and slides. I always strive to create a classroom where students are learning from me and each other, sharing their work, working with other students, and learning to work together to be the best we can be! Class will be laid back and fun- I believe students thrive best in a positive, relaxed, safe atmosphere. I enjoy doing hands of activities and I have students complete an interactive notebook for the year. I will often leave optional additional work that  will often comprise completing a page from the interactive notebook or a writing piece - we will not cover these in class, but students are welcome to send them to me to check. All learners will need to be ready for third grade ELA standards. 
Semester one standards that will be taught and spiral review:
3.RL.2.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis
for the answers.
3.RV.2.1 Apply context clues and text features 
to determine the meanings of unknown words.
3.SL.2.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grade appropriate topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing personal ideas clearly
3.W.6.1a Nouns/Pronouns- Writing sentences using abstract nouns 
3.W.6.1b Verbs- Writing sentences that use regular and irregular verbs and simple verb tenses to convey various
times, sequences, states, and conditions.
3.RN.2.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the
basis for the answers.
3.RN.2.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. 
Retell, paraphrase, and explain the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented
in diverse media and formats
Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
3.RL.2.3 Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the plot.
3.W.6.1e Usage – Writing correctly complete simple, compound, and complex declarative, interrogative, imperative,
and exclamatory sentences, using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions 
3.W.6.2a Capitalization – Capitalizing appropriate words in titles, historical periods, company names, product
names, and special events.
3.RN.3.2 Identify how a nonfiction text can be structured to indicate a problem and solution or to put events in
chronological order
3.RV.3.2 Determine the meanings of general academic and content-specific words and phrases in a nonfiction text
relevant to a third grade topic or subject area.
3.W.6.2b Punctuation – ● Correctly using apostrophes to form contractions and singular and plural possessives. ●
Using quotation marks to mark direct speech. ● Using commas in locations and addresses; to mark direct speech; and for
coordinating adjectives 
3.RN.3.1 Apply knowledge of text features to locate information and gain meaning from a text (e.g., maps,
illustrations, charts, font/format).
3.RN.4.1 Distinguish between fact and opinion; explain how an author uses reasons and facts to support specific
points in a text
3.RL.2.2 Recount folktales, fables, and tall tales from diverse cultures; identify the themes in these works.
3.RL.3.2 Distinguish personal point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters
3.RV.2.2 Identify relationships among words, including synonyms, antonyms, homographs, homonyms, and multiple meaning words 
3.RL.4.2 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same
or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
3.RN.4.2 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
3.RV.3.1 Determine how the author uses words and phrases to provide meaning to works of literature,
distinguishing literal from nonliteral language, including figurative language
3.RV.3.3 Recognize and understand the meanings of idioms in context.
3.ML.2.1 Distinguish among the purposes of various media messages, including for information, entertainment,
persuasion, interpretation of events, or transmission of culture.
3.RL.4.1 Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story
(e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
3.RN.2.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in
processes or procedures in a text, using words such as first, next, finally, because, problem, solution, same, and
different.
3.RV.2.4 Use a known word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root, and identify when an
affix is added to a known word.
3.RV.2.5 Consult reference materials, both print and digital (ex. dictionary), to determine or clarify the meanings of
words and phrases