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Wonders – 3rd Grade
ELA At-a-Glance
Unit 1: Growing and Learning
Unit 2: Figure it Out
Week 1:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Word Families, Short
Vowels a, i
Comprehension: Visualize/Character, setting,
plot/Fantasy
Grammar: Sentences and Fragments
Week 2:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Inflectional Endings/
Short Vowels e, o, u
Comprehension: Visualize/Character, setting,
plot/Realistic Fiction
Grammar: Commands and Exclamations
Week 3:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Final e, Inflectional
endings
Comprehension: Ask-Answer
Questions/Sequence/Narrative Non-fiction
Grammar: Subjects
Week 4:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Long a Spellings, Plurals s and –es
Comprehension: Ask-Answer Questions/ Cause
and Effect/ Biography
Grammar: Predicates
Week 5:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Long o: o, ow, oe, oa, oe,
Compound Words
Comprehension: Ask and Answer
Questions/Main Idea and Key Details/Expos.
Text
Grammar: Simple and Compound Sentences
Week 1:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Long I and long u, Plural
Words
Comprehension: Predictions/Theme/Folktale
Grammar: Kinds of Nouns
Week 2:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Long e, Inflectional
Endings
Comprehension: Predictions/Theme/Hist.
Fiction
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Week 3:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Words with Silent
Letters, Singular and Plural Possessives
Comprehension: Reread/Authors
P.O.V./Expository Text
Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns and Collective
Nouns
Week 4:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Three-Letter Blends,
Closed Syllables
Comprehension: Reread/Authors
P.O.V./Expository Text
Grammar:
Week 5:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Digraphs, Open Syllables
Comprehension: P.O.V./ Alliteration and
Rhyme/ Limerick & Free Verse
Grammar: Possessive Nouns
Wonders – 3rd Grade
ELA At-a-Glance
Unit 3: One of a Kind
Week 1:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: r-Controlled Vowels,
Contractions
Comprehension: Ask and Answer
Questions/P.O.V./ Folktale
Grammar: Action Verbs
Week 2:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: r-Controlled Vowels / ȁr/
and ȏr/, Prefixes un-, re-, and preComprehension: Ask and Answer
Questions/P.O.V./ Realistic Fiction
Grammar: Present-Tense Verbs and Subject –
Verb Agreement
Week 3:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: r-Controlled vowels
ȁr/and îr/, Suffixes -y and –ly
Comprehension: Reread/Compare and
Contrast/ Expository Text
Grammar: Past-Tense Verbs
Week 4:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Prefixes pre-, dis-, mis-,
Syllables with Final e
Comprehension: Reread/Cause and
Effect/Expository Text
Grammar: Future-Tense Verbs
Week 5:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Diphthongs /oi/ and ou/,
Prefixes un-, non-, disComprehension: Theme/Repetition and
Rhyme/Narrative and Free-Verse
Grammar: Combining Sentences with Verbs
Unit 4: Meet the Challenge
Week 1:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: /ű/ and /ű/, Roots in
Related Words
Comprehension: Summarize/P.O.V./Fairy Tale
Grammar: Singular and Plural Pronouns
Week 2:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Plural Words, Vowel
team Syllables
Comprehension: Summarize/P.O.V./ Realistic
Fiction
Grammar: Subject and Object Pronouns
Week 3:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Variant Vowel /ȏ/, Greek
and Latin Roots
Comprehension: Ask & Answer
Questions/P.O.V./ Expository Text
Grammar: Pronoun-Verb Agreement
Week 4:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Homophones, rControlled Vowel
Comprehension: Ask & Answer
Questions/P.O.V./ Biography
Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
Week 5:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Soft c and g, Words with
-er and –est
Comprehension: Ask & Answer
Questions/Cause and Effect/Expository Text
Grammar: Pronoun-Verb Contractions
Wonders – 3rd Grade
ELA At-a-Glance
Unit 5: Take Action
Week 1:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Compound Words,
Consonant + le Syllables
Comprehension: Summarize/P.O.V./Fairy Tale
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Week 2:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Inflectional Endings -ed, ing, -s, Suffixes –ful, -less,-able
Comprehension: Summarize/P.O.V./Realistic
Fiction
Grammar: Subject and Object Pronouns
Week 3:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Closed Syllables, Roots in
Related Words
Comprehension: Ask-Answer
Questions/Author’s P.O.V./Expository Text
Grammar: Pronoun-Verb Agreement
Week 4:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Inflectional Endings y
and I , Suffixes –ful, -ness, - less
Comprehension: Ask-Answer
Questions/Author’s P.O.V./Biography
Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
Week 5:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Open Syllables, Prefixes
and Suffixes
Comprehension: Ask-Answer Questions/Cause
& Effect/ Expository Text
Grammar: Pronoun-Verb Contractions
Unit 6: Think it Over
Week 1:
Writing: Opinion
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Prefixes un-, re-, pre-,
dis- , Roots in related Words
Comprehension: Predictions/Theme/Myth,
Drama
Grammar: Adjectives and Articles
Week 2:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Consonant + ie Syllable,
Latin Suffixes
Comprehension: Predictions/Theme/Historical
Fiction
Grammar: Adjectives that Compare
Week 3:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Vowel-Team Syllables,
Greek and Latin roots
Comprehension: Reread/Problem
&Solution/Biography
Grammar: Adverbs
Week 4:
Writing: Informative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: r-Controlled Vowel
Syllables, Latin Suffixes
Comprehension: Reread/Compare &
Contrast/Expository Text
Grammar: Adverbs that Compare
Week 5:
Writing: Narrative
Phonics/Spelling Skill: Suffixes –ful, -less, -ly,
Frequently Misspelled Words
Comprehension: P.O.V./Rhythm &
Rhyme/Narrative Poem
Grammar: Prepositions