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    Grade 3 Language Arts

    Building literacy through reading, writing, and expression

    Expand your language and literacy skills! The Grade 3 Language Arts curriculum develops reading comprehension, writing fluency, oral communication, and critical thinking through rich Caribbean texts and experiences.

    Reading Comprehension Creative Writing Oral Communication
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    3
    Curriculum Strands
    7
    Learning Outcomes (ELOs)
    133
    Specific Outcomes
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    OECS Aligned

    Language Arts Curriculum Strands

    Develop literacy through listening, speaking, reading, viewing, writing, and representing

    Listening and Speaking

    Grade 3 · Language Arts

    1
    Learning Outcomes
    24
    Specific Outcomes

    Develop oral communication and active listening skills through discussions, presentations, and collaborative activities.

    Essential Learning Outcomes

    LANG-G3-LS-ELO1

    The learner will explore, use, and critically apply oral language for pleasure, personal growth, to foster relationships and to develop an appreciation and celebration of culture and oral languages.

    24 specific outcomes

    Key Learning Focus

    • •Listening for main idea, detail, and inference
    • •Participating in structured discussions and debates
    • •Delivering clear presentations to different audiences
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    Reading and Viewing

    Grade 3 · Language Arts

    3
    Learning Outcomes
    61
    Specific Outcomes

    Build reading fluency and comprehension strategies across a range of fiction and non-fiction texts.

    Essential Learning Outcomes

    LANG-G3-RV-ELO1

    Learners will demonstrate a variety of ways to use background knowledge and interests to select and engage critically with a range of culturally diverse paper-based, visual, and digital texts for pleasure and personal growth.

    19 specific outcomes
    LANG-G3-RV-ELO2

    Students will interact meaningfully with a variety of genres using background knowledge, comprehension strategies, vocabulary, and graphophonic cues.

    25 specific outcomes
    LANG-G3-RV-ELO3

    Learners will develop their understanding of how an author’s choice of vocabulary, language, genre, text form, text features and style influence the meaning of text and define the author’s craft.

    17 specific outcomes

    Key Learning Focus

    • •Reading grade-level texts with fluency and expression
    • •Using comprehension strategies — predicting, inferring, summarising
    • •Analysing story elements — theme, character, and plot
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    Writing and Representing

    Grade 3 · Language Arts

    3
    Learning Outcomes
    48
    Specific Outcomes

    Develop writing skills across genres, applying conventions and craft to communicate ideas effectively.

    Essential Learning Outcomes

    LANG-G3-WR-ELO1

    Learners will generate, gather, and organize thoughts to explore, clarify and reflect on thoughts, feelings, and experiences as they create a written or representative draft, independently and collaboratively, for a range of audiences and purposes.

    19 specific outcomes
    LANG-G3-WR-ELO2

    Learners will revise the organization and language use in drafted writing or representation, collaboratively and independently, for a variety of purposes and audiences

    19 specific outcomes
    LANG-G3-WR-ELO3

    Learners will use their knowledge of spoken language, written language and writing conventions to refine the precision and enhance the meaning and clarity of their written work.

    10 specific outcomes

    Key Learning Focus

    • •Writing multi-sentence paragraphs with a clear topic sentence
    • •Using descriptive language and figurative devices
    • •Applying punctuation, spelling, and capitalisation conventions
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