English for Grade 3

Kids Academy Classroom’s Grade 3 English curriculum builds on students’ foundational skills to develop independent reading, writing, and communication abilities. Lessons, worksheets, games, videos, drills, and quizzes allow students to explore phonics, spelling, grammar, literature, vocabulary, and informational texts in engaging, age-appropriate ways.

Core areas covered:

Foundational Reading Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition: Use advanced phonics patterns to decode multisyllabic words and recognize irregular word forms.

Spelling: Apply grade level spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and word families to spell accurately.

Vocabulary

Word Relationships and Nuances: Explore synonyms, antonyms, and shades of meaning and to expand vocabulary understanding. Use context and known affixes to decode unfamiliar words and phrases.

Reading Literature

Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure: Identify important details, understand how characters, settings, and events develop, and examine how authors choose words and structure stories.

Review Across Genres: Compare themes, structures, and features across stories, poems, and other literary texts.

Reading Informational Texts

Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure: Determine main ideas, identify supporting details, and examine how informational texts are organized.

Review Across Content: Revisit and compare information across different nonfiction texts to strengthen understanding.

Conventions of Writing

Grammar: Use nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and other parts of speech correctly in sentences.

Sentences: Write complete sentences with correct structure and combine ideas using connectors.

Capitalization and Punctuation: Apply capitalization rules and use punctuation such as commas, quotation marks, and periods correctly.

This program ensures Grade 3 students gain confidence in reading, strengthen writing skills, and develop independent literacy strategies to support higher-level learning in subsequent grades.