3rd Grade: English Language Arts
A team of Northshore School District educators curated these supplemental learning resources to support asynchronous learning opportunities. This page includes instructional videos from open educational resources that were used during the 2020-21 school year.
Quarter 1
Quarter 1 Reading
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Character
- Setting
- Plot
- Key Details
- Traits, Motivation, Feelings
- Point of View
- Mood
- Central Theme, Message or Moral
- Independent Reading
Quarter 1 Writing
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Narrative Writing with Story Elements
- Descriptive Details
- Narrative Introduction and Closing
- Adding Dialogue
- Sequencing of Events
- Paragraph Structure (indent or block)
- Grammar Skills
- Independent Writing
Instructional Videos
- Heinemann-YouTube: Writing Tips from Lucy Calkins
- Heinemann-YouTube: Generating Ideas with Heart Maps
- YouTube: How to Write a Narrative Introduction
- KCLS BookFlix: Owl Moon
- Khan Academy: Figurative Language
- TedED: Ways to Start a Sentence
- TedED: Adding ed to past tense words
- TedED: Prepositions
- TedED: Homophones (there, their and they're)
Quarter 2
Quarter 2 Reading
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Main Ideas and Key Details
- Summarize
- Text Features and Structures
- Sequence
- Comparison
- Compare/contrast
- Cause/effect
- Facts Versus Opinions
- Point of View
- Referencing Texts
Instructional Videos
- Khan Academy: Main Idea
- Khan Academy: Finding Evidence in the Text
- Khan Academy: Summarizing Nonfiction
- Khan Academy: Making Connections in a Text
- Khan Academy: Making Inferences in Informational Text
- Khan Academy: Evaluating a Source's Reasoning and Evidence
- TED ED: Flocabulary- "The Five Types of Text Structure"
Quarter 2 Writing
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Writing Process
- Main Ideas and Key Details
- Supporting Facts and Reasons Definitions
- Text Structure
- Linking Words
- Two or More Sources
- Appropriate Opening and Closing for Informational Writing
- Grade Level Grammar Skills
- Writing in Response to Reading
Quarter 3 & 4
Quarter 3 & 4 Reading
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Character, Setting(s), Plot
- Key and Supporting Details
- Traits, Motivation, Feelings
- Inference
- Forming Opinions
- Analysis of Story Elements
- First and Third Person Narration
- Point of View
- Mood
- Central Theme, Message or Moral
- Independent Reading
- Text Features and Structures
- Sequence
- Comparison
- Compare/contrast
- Cause/effect
- Facts Versus Opinions
- Point of View
- Referencing Texts
- Research
- Forming/supporting opinions
Instructional Video
- TED Ed: Setting
- YouTube: Theme
- KCLS BookFlix: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Pourquoi Tale)
- Khan Academy: Main Idea
- Khan Academy: Finding Evidence in the Text
- Khan Academy: Summarizing Nonfiction
- Khan Academy: Making Connections in a Text
- Khan Academy: Making Inferences in Informational Text
- Khan Academy: Evaluating a Source's Reasoning and Evidence
- TED ED: Flocabulary- "The Five Types of Text Structure"
Quarter 3 & 4 Writing
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Narrative Writing with Story Elements
- Descriptive Details
- Narrative Introduction and Closing
- Adding Dialogue
- Forming and supporting opinions
- Sequencing of Events
- Paragraph Structure (indent or block)
- Grammar Skills
- Independent Writing
- Writing Process
- Main Ideas and Key Details
- Supporting Facts and Reasons Definitions
- Text Structure
- Linking Words
- Two or More Sources
- Appropriate Opening and Closing for Informational Writing
- Grade Level Grammar Skills
- Writing in Response to Reading
Instructional Videos
- Heinemann-YouTube: Writing Tips from Lucy Calkins
- Heinemann-YouTube: Generating Ideas with Heart Maps
- YouTube: How to Write a Narrative Introduction
- KCLS BookFlix: Owl Moon
- Khan Academy: Figurative Language
- TedED: Ways to Start a Sentence
- TedED: Adding ed to past tense words
- TedED: Prepositions
- TedED: Homophones (there, their and they're)
- YouTube: Informational Text *
- Khan Academy: Figurative Language
- TED ED: Flocabulary- "The Five Types of Text Structure"
- KCLS Info Base: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
- KCLS Info Base: Parts of Speech: Nouns, Proper Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives. Adverbs (Can be broken into segments)
- KCLS Info Base: Writing Kids: Academic Essay Writing for Beginners
- YouTube: Syllable Division, 6 Syllable Types