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Text features

  • Date November 22, 2020
Grade 3 – Language Arts Skills Text features
Topic: Text features
Text features include all the parts of a story or article that are
not the main body of text.
Include the
1. table of contents
2. index
3. glossary
4. headings
5. bold words
6. sidebars
7. pictures and captions
8. and labeled diagrams.
These features can be helpful when they are concise,
related to the content, and clear.
They can be harmful if they are poorly organized, not
related to the content, or too wordy.
Name of text feature
  Purpose of text feature
Title
 Tells the reader what information they will learn about
Table of contents
Shows students the different chapter or section titles and
where they are located
Index
Shows students where to go in the text to find specific information
on a topic, word, or person
Glossary
Identifies important vocabulary words for students and gives their
definitions
Headings or subtitles
Help the reader identify the main idea for that section of text
Sidebars
Are set apart from the main text, (usually located on the side or
 bottom of the page) and talks more about a detail mentioned in the
 text
Pictures and captions
Show an important object or idea from the text
Labeled diagrams
Allow readers to see detailed illustrations of an object from the
text with labels that teach the important parts
Charts and graphs
Represent and show data related to information in the main body
 of text
Maps
Help a reader locate a place in the world that is related to the text

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TERM 1 The Grade Three students, having completed Grades One and Two, are being exposed to various strategies and skills of Language Arts, that will further their understanding of how language works. In this unit, the students will be given opportunities to practise their listening and speaking skills through a variety of engaging activities. In reading, they apply previously learnt skills to improve word recognition and vocabulary. As students improve fluency, they apply the strategies learnt to increase their comprehension. They will also demonstrate their understanding through the use of graphic organizers and outlines. They use self-questioning strategies to engage in active reading. Students incorporate the use of negative forms of the verbs “to be” and “to do”, and the use of the conjunction “but” in a range of contexts to show the opposite or conflicting ideas. Their writing incorporates the use of descriptive adjectives to show comparison when comparing two or more things. Students continue to use the structures of the English Language to write simple Language Experience Stories. They develop their pre-writing skills with the aid of graphic organizers. Their drafts are more detailed and application of skills learnt across strands is evident.
Rules for speaking and listening
Listening and Retelling
Long “Aa” sounds
Words with consonant blends in the final position
Words with consonant blends in the final position
“Rr” controlled vowels
Syllables
Irregular plural nouns
Demonstrative pronouns and Adjectives
Superlatives
Listening to identify main ideas
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
“Aa”, “Au”, “Aw” words
“Augh” and “Ough” words
Inferences in reading
Adjectives and Adverbs
Past tense of regular and irregular verbs
Subject verb agreement
Story writing
TERM 2 After completing one term in Grade Three, the students are now equipped with the necessary skills that will allow them to become more independent as learners. They will continue to apply previously learnt skills across the strands. In this unit, further opportunities are given for students to share opinions, to ask and answer questions using the listening and speaking skills. There is emphasis on application of skills and concepts learnt that will better enable them to decode and encode words to increase fluency and understanding. They continue to use the writing process to express their ideas and utilise a variety of prewriting strategies in the selection of topics and organization of ideas. They write fully developed paragraphs that reflect essential paragraph elements. Writing checklists are used to edit documents for the traits of quality writing. On completion of this unit, the students would have been exposed to activities that would have allowed them to scaffold on learnt skills and concepts that will greatly impact the development of the language skills.
Planning and delivering speeches
Identifying and pronouncing digraphs
“Rr” controlled vowels
Syllables
Root words and Affixes
Synonyms and Antonyms
Homonyms and Homographs
Proper nouns, Common nouns and Distinction of gender when using nouns
Possessive nouns
Interviews
Writing a paragraph
Types of communication
Graphemes, Phonemes and Digraphs
What is a poem?
Verbs – Irregular and Regular
Negative forms of verbs
Questions
Conjunctions
Letter writing
TERM 3 As students approach they end of Grade Three, they show signs of maturity and are becoming more responsible for their own learning. In listening and speaking they use the SJE to clarify information and to justify their response to instructions and information. In Word recognition and fluency, there is greater focus on structural analysis, with the purpose of using encoding and decoding skills to acquire meaning. As they interface with text, they continue to make connections with self, text and the world. There is in depth investigation of text features in non-fiction texts. As students communicate through writing, they employ the skills learnt in process writing. They are exposed to varied strategies that can be used to edit documents. In this unit, the students are given many opportunities to review and revise their writings before publishing. At the end of this unit, the Grade Three students would have completed three years of the Language Arts Programme at the primary level. They would have exhibited mastery of listening and speaking skills; be exposed to a range of encoding and decoding skills to increase fluency and derive meaning; demonstrated the use of varied reading strategies to gain understanding and used the structures and mechanics of the SJE learnt, to communicate their ideas through different formats. Thus, the Grade Three students would have been adequately prepared to begin the Grade Four Language Programme.
Asking questions
The letter “Xx”
The letters “Ww” , “Ll” and “Rr”
Silent letter (“Ww”, “Ll”,”Bb”,”Tt”,”Kk”,”Uu”,”Hh”)
Text features
Text to text, text to self , text to world connections
What are facts and opinions in text?
Exclamation and Quotation marks
Future tense of verbs using will
“To have”, “To be”, “To do”
Revision for editing checklist
Writing a book report
PRACTICE QUIZ
Language Quiz 1
Language Quiz 2
Language Quiz 3
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