US homeschool curriculum · 3rd grade
3rd Grade Language Arts
A self-paced online Language Arts course for 3rd grade: 27 lessons across 7 units. A short placement quiz finds the right starting point, practice adapts as your child answers, and every lesson is marked automatically with progress reported to you.
- Every lesson has at least two different question styles, with hints and step-by-step worked solutions.
- Struggling triggers a gentler re-teach and a warm-up on the missing building block — never a visible drop in score.
- Work this course at its own level: a child can take 3rd Grade Language Arts alongside a different grade in Math.
What your child learns
The scope and sequence below is generated from the live curriculum, so it is always what the app actually teaches.
Phonics and word reading
- Read words ending in -ous: Can read and build words like dangerous, famous and furious.
- que, gue, sc and ch-as-k words: Can spell words like antique, league, science and chemist.
- Read more 2nd and 3rd grade tricky words: Can read words such as knowledge, peculiar, separate and therefore in a sentence.
Spelling
- Apostrophes for plural owners: Can write the girls' coats and the children's books correctly.
- Add -ation: Can spell words like information, preparation and admiration.
- Choose and spell the prefix: Can write the prefix that gives the right meaning: illegal, irregular, submarine, international.
- More 2nd and 3rd grade homophones: Can choose between affect/effect, past/passed, threw/through, allowed/aloud and others.
- Spell -ous words: Can spell words like famous, nervous, curious and mysterious.
- Spell more 2nd and 3rd grade tricky words: Can spell words such as knowledge, peculiar, separate and therefore.
Grammar
- Find the introductory phrase: Can pick out the introductory phrase at the start of a sentence.
- Standard English verb forms: Can choose 'we were' not 'we was', 'I did' not 'I done'.
- Pronouns to avoid repetition: Can choose the pronoun that stands in for a noun (he, she, they, its, their …).
- Noun phrases with a prepositional phrase: Can pick out the words that add detail to a noun, such as 'with the red hat'.
- Find the determiner: Can pick out the determiner (a, an, the, this, that, some, every …) in a sentence.
- Choose the topic sentence: Can choose the sentence that best opens a paragraph.
Punctuation
- Comma after an introductory phrase: Can put the comma after an introductory phrase.
- Punctuate direct speech: Can punctuate speech with a comma after the reporting clause and the end mark inside the quotation marks.
- Apostrophe after a plural: Can place the apostrophe correctly when something belongs to more than one person.
Vocabulary
- Work out a word from its parts: Can work out what a word like unbreakable or misunderstand means from its prefix, root and suffix.
- Better words for 'said': Can choose a speech verb that matches how a character feels.
- What an idiom means: Can say what a common saying like 'raining cats and dogs' really means.
Reading comprehension
- Find the evidence: Can pick out the sentence that proves how a character feels.
- Summarize a paragraph: Can choose the best one-sentence summary of a paragraph.
- The message of a story: Can say what lesson or theme a short story is putting across.
- Find information in a notice or schedule: Can find a detail in a notice, schedule or set of instructions.
Writing
- Proofread 3rd grade writing: Can spot the sentence with no mistakes in commas, apostrophes, Standard English or spelling.
- Which sentence comes next?: Can choose the sentence that follows on properly from the one before.
Language Arts uses American spelling, punctuation and conventions throughout. It is not mapped to the Common Core ELA standards — the lesson list above is the honest description of what it teaches.