Grade 3 - Conventions & Vocabulary - Saskatchewan Language - Lesson/Work Bundle

Grade 3 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Saskatchewan Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 3 Language Conventions and Vocabulary unit in the Saskatchewan Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This 468-page resource covers all outcomes and indicators related to conventions, spelling, and fluency in the Saskatchewan Language Curriculum (ELA).

Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach consonant clusters as well as vowel teams. Along with these Science of Reading principles, we have weaved in the outcomes and indicators students in grade 3 need to learn while working with these word lists.

Included in this resource are the elaborations within the elements below:

Comprehend and Respond (CR) – read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate texts.

Compose and Create (CC) - spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and other conventions related to writing.

Assess and Reflect (AR) – reflect and set personalized goals related to writing, spelling, and reading fluency.

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week, and what prefixes/suffixes/letter blends will be covered.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Goal setting activities – writing, spelling, and reading fluency
• Complete sentences versus fragments
• Subject versus predicate
• Simple versus compound sentences
• Suffixes: -ly, -er, -or, -ar, -ist, and more
• Prefixes: re-, un-, in-, dis-, non-, mis-, mal-, sub-, super-, and more
• Picture predictions – how do illustrations help us predict what texts will be about?
• Sight word flashcards
• Word family trees
• Activity - Look-Sound-Make Sense Check
• Reading punctuation – pause, stop, raise tone, etc.
• Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions
• Four types of sentences – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
• Fun weekly word work – word search, crosswords, creating words, coding, word scrambles
• Independent and dependent clauses
• Coordinating conjunctions – FANBOYS
• Complex sentences with adverbial clauses.
• Subject-verb agreement
• Position-based tendencies – I before E
• Decoding strategies – chunking unfamiliar words, rhyming words: word families, skip and revisit
• Memorizing irregular grapheme-phonemes ough, ph, ei, and mb
• Using dictionaries to look up word meanings and thesauruses to find synonyms
• Using apostrophes for contractions
• Possessive nouns – using apostrophes for singular nouns and for plural nouns
• Uncommon plural nouns – moose/moose, and person/people
• Spelling patterns – adding –ies, -es, -ves
• Silent letters
• Reading unfamiliar words - strategies
• Using commas for direct speech
• Using commas in a list
• Homophones and homographs
• Antonyms and synonyms
• Figurative language – simile, hyperbole, and imagery
• Capital letters: titles, proper nouns, and in dialogue
• Formal and informal language – slang, social media texts, academic language
• Fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 3 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Saskatchewan Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Language Conventions and Vocabulary, Grade 3, Saskatchewan Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.