AlbertaGrade 3
AB Grade 3 English Curriculum
Lessons and practice for every Grade 3 English topic. Aligned to what Alberta schools teach. Your child can learn reading, writing, and communication skills at their own pace.
AB Grade 3 English Curriculum | StudyPugHelp
LO_ID | Learning Outcome-Skills & Procedures | StudyPug Topic |
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ELA.3.TF.1 | Text categorization and personal preferences: Examine the purpose of a variety of texts explain personal preferences for texts that provide enjoyment and differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts according to content |
ELA.3.TF.2 | Text organization and idea enhancement: Examine the form and structure of various texts and determine how structure can help organize the expression or understanding of ideas and information |
ELA.3.TF.3 | Visual literacy and information organization: Examine a variety of text features that provide additional information and include variety of features to organize clarify or enhance personal messages |
ELA.3.TF.4 | Genre differentiation and narrative organization: Differentiate between fiction sub-genres including myths realistic fiction historical fiction and mystery and examine fictional text structures that contribute to organization clarity or engagement |
ELA.3.TF.5 | Literary elements and character development: Examine elements within fictional texts including major characters setting and plot and examine circular plot structures |
ELA.3.TF.6 | Dramatic interpretation and narrative perspective: Create imaginative representations or dramatizations of fictional texts that depict understandings of characters setting and plot and investigate the narrator's contribution to texts |
ELA.3.TF.7 | Information structure and organizational patterns: Compare and contrast ways that non-fiction texts can be organized and investigate linear and cyclical sequencing in a variety of non-fiction texts |
ELA.3.TF.8 | Figurative language and poetic forms: Investigate words or phrases applied creatively in poetry examine poetic structures that contribute to creative expression and experiment with creating haikus and limericks |
ELA.3.OL.1 | Traditional storytelling and intergenerational communication: Investigate oral traditions that have been shared over time discuss how oral stories show respect for traditional shared knowledge and share information of personal or cultural significance passed between generations |
ELA.3.OL.2 | Interactive communication and speaking mechanics: Engage in dialogue to express and understand messages examine dialogue effectiveness identify where phrasing and pausing support understanding and support speech through relaxation breathing and posture |
ELA.3.OL.3 | Group interaction and active listening: Consider contributions of others when exchanging ideas use a variety of listening strategies to enhance interactions and learning |
ELA.3.OL.4 | Multimodal communication and presentation clarity: Combine verbal and non-verbal language to enhance communication adjust voice quality audibility articulation or clarity and group relevant ideas in logical sequence when presenting |
ELA.3.OL.5 | Presentation variety and skill building: Develop communication skills through individual or group presentations including oral reports readers theatre and dramatizations |
ELA.3.OL.6 | Character dramatization and expressive performance: Present dramatizations of characters and events encountered in texts and share a poem from memory with awareness of phrasing and pausing |
ELA.3.OL.7 | Public speaking and presentation etiquette: Compose and share short speeches or oral reports and participate in presentations as a respectful audience member |
ELA.3.V.1 | Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary and concept engagement: Use tier 2 words in a variety of literacy contexts develop tier 3 vocabulary through content-area learning and engage with texts that include sophisticated concepts expressed through expanded vocabulary |
ELA.3.V.2 | Vocabulary integration and literary devices: Integrate knowledge of vocabulary across multiple literacy contexts and recognize and use figurative language in oral and written communication |
ELA.3.V.3 | Synonym antonym homophone and meaning analysis: Analyze and use synonyms antonyms homophones homographs and words with multiple meanings in a variety of texts |
ELA.3.V.4 | Base and affix analysis for meaning: Analyze bases and affixes for meaning and recognize and use suffixes to form adverbs and name persons who do something |
ELA.3.V.5 | Word structure and phonological analysis: Analyze frequently used compound words and their meanings and distinguish syllables in words |
ELA.3.P.1 | Consonant clusters and complex sound combinations: Recognize consonant clusters at the beginning and ending of words and recognize and apply less frequent consonant digraphs |
ELA.3.P.2 | Advanced phonetic patterns and sound recognition: Recognize and apply consonant letters that represent no sounds and recognize a wide variety of long and short vowel sounds in multisyllabic words |
ELA.3.P.3 | Complex word decoding and reading strategies: Use phonetic strategies to decode complex words in continuous text |
ELA.3.F.1 | Fluent reading and prosody development: Demonstrate automaticity in reading complex words phrases and continuous text with appropriate pace word stress phrasing and pausing |
ELA.3.F.2 | Sight word recognition and expressive reading: Read the 300 high-frequency words learned in grades 1 and 2 fluently in continuous text and read a variety of text forms with fluency and expression |
ELA.3.C.1 | Complex text comprehension and analysis: Independently read and demonstrate comprehension of texts that vary in length or complexity |
ELA.3.C.2 | Personal text-to-text and text-to-world connections: Make connections between a text and personal feelings experiences or background knowledge make connections between various aspects within or between texts and make connections between texts and ideas that relate to past present or future world events |
ELA.3.C.3 | Prediction strategies and evidence-based thinking: Make predictions using background knowledge and information within a text identify supporting information modify predictions based on new information and reflect on predictions to confirm or change understandings |
ELA.3.C.4 | Inferential thinking and character motivation: Make inferences by combining background knowledge with information not explicitly stated and identify connections between character actions feelings or motives and evidence in text |
ELA.3.C.5 | Information synthesis and logical communication: Determine the most important information in a text order significant information logically and share important information in logical order using own words |
ELA.3.C.6 | Metacognitive strategies and problem-solving: Examine locations in texts where reading comprehension becomes challenging and identify personally effective self-monitoring skills to support reading comprehension |
ELA.3.W.1 | Writing for various audiences purposes and forms: Create written texts for a variety of audiences and purposes using a variety of forms and structures |
ELA.3.W.2 | Pre-writing strategies and organizational tools: Use organizational processes methods or tools to support text creation and sequence sections of writing in a logical order |
ELA.3.W.3 | Audience engagement and writing techniques: Create drafts that maintain audience interest by focusing ideas in sentences limiting repetitions and including a range of sentence beginnings and types |
ELA.3.W.4 | Text improvement and accuracy: Revise written texts for accuracy clarity or appeal by adding removing or changing words or sentences and edit writing for spelling punctuation and grammar |
ELA.3.W.5 | Fluency checking and purpose-based selection: Read written texts aloud to check for writing fluency and select a variety of texts to be shared according to their purpose |
ELA.3.W.6 | Creative writing and audience-purpose relationships: Examine how relationships between audience purpose and text form influence creative expression and examine how other writers use words sensory detail and figurative language |
ELA.3.W.7 | Creative idea development and personal expression: Create written texts that draw upon a variety of sources of inspiration and select from various text forms or structures to express personal thoughts or feelings |
ELA.3.W.8 | Creative writing techniques and audience engagement: Create beginnings that catch audience attention by experimenting with ideas and word choice and include carefully selected words and sensory detail to add interest |
ELA.3.W.9 | Character development and creative punctuation: Include dialogue to add variety to texts and use punctuation to generate effects in creative expression |
ELA.3.W.10 | Ending techniques and creative sharing: Create thoughtful conclusions to tie up events or leave readers wondering and select from various presentation forms or text features to enhance creative writing |
ELA.3.W.11 | Creative persistence and challenge management: Persevere through challenges that may arise in the creative expression of ideas |
ELA.3.W.12 | Information gathering and organization: Access information from a variety of sources to answer questions or expand knowledge and organize categorize or sequence information using various methods or tools |
ELA.3.W.13 | Research application and source documentation: Use research to create written text appropriate for an audience and list sources of information used to inform research |
ELA.3.W.14 | Handwriting keyboarding and tool fluency: Demonstrate writing fluency using at least one method or tool use cursive handwriting with appropriate letter formation size proportion and slant and demonstrate basic keyboarding skills |
ELA.3.Conv.1 | Capitalization rules and sentence-ending punctuation: Capitalize words appropriately in different contexts and include a variety of punctuation at the end of sentences |
ELA.3.Conv.2 | Internal punctuation and direct speech: Insert commas to indicate pauses between sentence parts or separate list items and insert quotation marks to identify speaker words and bring attention to special word usage |
ELA.3.Conv.3 | Contraction formation and ownership indication: Insert apostrophes in place of letters in contractions and insert apostrophes to show possession following appropriate rules for singular and plural nouns |
ELA.3.Conv.4 | Sentence variety and grammatical structures: Distinguish between a variety of sentence types and identify the subject and predicate of various sentences |
ELA.3.Conv.5 | Parts of speech and sentence connections: Examine conjunctions in a variety of sentences use adjectives to describe nouns and use adverbs to describe verbs |
ELA.3.Conv.6 | Grammatical agreement and possessive differentiation: Identify subject-verb agreement in various sentences and differentiate between possessive nouns possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns |
ELA.3.Conv.7 | Prepositional usage and relationship indication: Recognize and use prepositions in sentences to show time and place |
ELA.3.Conv.8 | Spelling rules and pattern recognition: Identify spelling patterns within and across words and apply knowledge of known words word parts and word patterns to spell unfamiliar words |
ELA.3.Conv.9 | Irregular plurals and complex spelling patterns: Identify plural nouns that are spelled the same as or differently from their singular form and spell complex plural words |
ELA.3.Conv.10 | Possessive formation and spelling accuracy: Add apostrophe and s to nouns to show ownership add only apostrophe if noun is plural and already ends in s and spell singular and plural possessives |
ELA.3.Conv.11 | Word part spelling and morphological accuracy: Spell a variety of prefixes and suffixes accurately in words |
ELA.3.Conv.12 | Non-predictable spelling and spelling challenges: Identify words that are not spelled in predictable ways |
ELA.3.Conv.13 | Strategic spelling and resource utilization: Apply a variety of spelling strategies to enhance written expression and use various tools to spell or confirm spelling of words |
ELA.3.Conv.14 | Shortened forms and contraction spelling: Spell common abbreviations in writing and recognize and spell contractions in writing |
ELA.3.Conv.15 | Word endings and grammatical changes: Apply inflectional endings in writing spell compound words accurately apply endings that show comparisons and recognize basic guidelines for adding inflectional endings |