Grade 3 Reading
Year at a Glance
September/October – School Days
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First three weeks complete all pre assessments (DRA, DSA, Fall
Writing Sample and PALS)
Lesson 1 – Ruby the Copycat
o Characters and setting; sentences (statements and questions)
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Lesson 2 – The Day Eddie Met the Author
o Characters and setting (review); commands and exclamations
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Lesson 3 – Schools Around the World (story can be integrated with
map skills)
o Locate information; compound and simple subjects and
predicates
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Lesson 4 – Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut
o Locate information (review); compound subjects and predicates
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Lesson 5 – Reader’s Theater – The School News
o Review – characters, setting and locate information
o Review – statements, questions, commands, exclamations,
compound and simple subjects and predicates
October/November – Together We Can
 Lesson 6 – The Babe and I
o Fact/Opinion; simple and compound sentences
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Lesson 7 – Aero and Officer Mike
o Fact/Opinion (review); common and proper nouns
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Lesson 8 – How Animals Talk (This story will reinforce that living
things are part of a system; also read paired selection – Partners in
the Wild)
o Main idea/details; abbreviations
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Lesson 9 – Stone Soup
o Main idea/details (review); singular/plural nouns
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Lesson 10 – Reader’s Theater – The Case of the Three Bears’
Breakfast; paired selection – How Living Things Survive (story can be
integrated with adaptations)
o Review – Fact/Opinion and Main idea/details
o Review - simple and compound sentences; common and proper
nouns; abbreviations; and singular/plural nouns
December – As We Grow
 Lesson 11 – Loved Best
o Plot; possessive nouns
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Lesson 12 – A Pen Pal for Max (story can be integrated with map
skills); also read paired selection – Postcards from Around the Globe
o Plot (review); singular/plural nouns
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Lesson 13 – A Tree is Growing (story can be integrated with
adaptations)
o Author’s purpose; subject/object pronouns
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Lesson 14 – One Small Place in a Tree (story can be integrated with
adaptations)
o Author’s purpose (review); pronoun-antecedent agreement
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Lesson 15 – Reader’s Theater – Ask the Experts
o Review – Plot and Author’s purpose
o Review - Possessive nouns; singular/plural nouns; subject/object
pronouns; and pronoun-antecedent agreement
January – Tales to Tell
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Lesson 16 – Lon Po Po
o Compare/contrast; adjectives
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Lesson 17 – Two Bear Cubs
o Compare/contrast (review); adjectives that compare
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Lesson 18 – Me and Uncle and Romie
o Theme; articles
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Lesson 19 – Half-Chicken
o Theme (review); action verbs
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Lesson 20 – Reader’s Theater – Backstage with Chris and Casey
o Review – compare/contrast and theme
o Review – adjectives; adjectives that compare; articles; and
action verbs
February – A Place For All
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Lesson 21 – Antarctic Ice (story can be integrated with matter—
processes involved with changes in matter from one state to another);
also read paired selection – Dairy of a Very Short Winter
o Sequence; the verb be
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Lesson 22 – Bat Loves the Night
o Sequence (review); main/helping verbs
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Lesson 23 – Chestnut Cove (story can be integrated with government);
also read paired selection – Mayors
o Cause/effect; present-tense verbs
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Lesson 24 – Ramona Quimby, Age 8
o Cause/effect (review); past tense/future tense verbs
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Lesson 25 – Reader’s Theater – The Robodogs of Greenville
o Review – Sequence and cause/effect
o Review – the verb be; main/helping verbs; present-tense verbs;
and past tense/future tense verbs
March/April – Discoveries
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Lesson 26 – Charlotte’s Web
o Make inferences; irregular verbs
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Lesson 27 – Spiders and Their Webs
o Make inferences (review); adverbs
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Lesson 28 – The Science Fair (reinforces scientific methods and
strands, like matter); also read paired selection – Advice from Dr. FixIt
o Make predictions; contractions
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Lesson 29 – The Planets (story can be integrated with solar system)
o Make predictions (review); punctuation roundup
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Lesson 30 – Reader’s Theater – Voyage Across the Solar System
(story can be integrated with solar system)
o Review – make inferences and make predictions
o Review - irregular verbs; adverbs; contractions; and punctuation
roundup
May – Review for Reading SOL test