NEW 2023 Alberta Language - Grade 3 - Comprehension, Text Forms and Structures

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Grade 3 - New Alberta 2023 Language Curriculum – Text Forms and Structures and Comprehension (ELA). This resource covers all skills and procedures in the organizing ideas: Text Forms and Structures as well as Comprehension. The 280 pages teach the skills and procedures in these two curriculum areas.

 We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

 Included in this resource are the organizing ideas below:

Text Forms and Structures: taught throughout the unit, with the use of 10 different blocks of text forms, including narratives, reports, poetry, comic strips, letters, procedural writing, book reviews, persuasive writing, and biographies.

 Comprehension: as students learn about the text forms and structures of different types of writing, they will practice reading comprehension skills. They will read these different text forms, and use before reading, during reading, and after reading comprehension strategies – inferencing, visualizing, predicting, summarizing, making connections, and questioning. We have also included an independent reading response booklet.

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

 Some of the concepts covered:

• What are text forms?
• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making global and local inferences, visualizing
• Genres in text forms – fiction and non-fiction
• Sub-forms of genres – mystery, myths, realistic fiction, historical fiction, etc.
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, writing with voice
• Narratives – use of literary devices: similes, hyperbole, and imagery
• Perspective in narratives – first-person and third-person narration
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Circular plots in story writing
• Character traits in narratives
• Structure in stories – beginning, middle, end
• Indigenous storytelling – learning about different symbols, languages, and values
• Cross-curricular connections – science and social studies (energy, communities, etc.)
• Using facts or opinions in persuasive writing
• Making inferences about persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – index, glossary, timelines, headings, subheadings, etc.
• Linear sequencing and cyclical sequencing in non-fiction texts
• Reports on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Summarizing reports – determining the main idea and supporting details
• Activity – group work summarizing
• Use of infographics, timelines, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – hyperbole, imagery, and simile
• Assignment – examining poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary and indexes to understand a biography
• Biographies – Isaac Newton, Dian Fossey, Thomas Edison, and Edith Monture: index and glossary
• Procedural writing – text forms: lists, title, graphics, and labels
• How graphics improve procedural writing
• Following instructions – drawing a wigwam and a dreamcatcher
• Answer pages for all activities

 This is a comprehensive unit that will save you hours of planning! It has everything you need to feel confident that you are covering the NEW Alberta Language curriculum.