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3rd grade English Learner (EL) Resources

By now, your 3rd grade English learner (EL) students have mastered the basics and are ready for more advanced topics. Take a deeper dive into the English language with our resources designed for parents and teachers who are looking for additional practice for their 3rd grade EL students, from building essential math skills to expanding their vocabulary and developing fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension abilities.

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Making Predictions Lesson

Making Predictions Lesson

This lesson thoughtfully scaffolds the reading skill of predicting. Students are introduced to the concept and get to practice making predictions. They will apply what they have learned during a focused independent reading activity.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Identifying Character Traits

Identifying Character Traits

What's your "it"? This lesson incorporates Tony Dungy's You Can Do It! into some hands-on activities that help students learn about different character traits.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Close Reading: Introduction

Close Reading: Introduction

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Improve reading comprehension with a lesson on cause and effect! In this lesson, students will use a T-chart to identify examples of cause and effect in and by the end, you’ll all be singing along to the cause and effect song!

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Asking and Answering Questions

Asking and Answering Questions

This lesson helps students learn about asking and answering questions about a text. It also exposes them to valuable lessons about trying to figure out their dreams and not giving up along the way.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Let's Read It With Expression!

Let's Read It With Expression!

Teach your students about text clues that will help them read with expression. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Reader's Theater: Read the Script* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

In Search of the Main Idea

In Search of the Main Idea

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Fact or Opinion: Part 1

Fact or Opinion: Part 1

Cats are the best! Pizza is better! My teacher rules! In Fact or Opinion: Part 1, your students will combine reading and writing to learn about the differences between facts and opinions and how those differences are communicated.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Simple Summaries

Simple Summaries

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Vocabulary Practice

Vocabulary Practice

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn about words and what they mean. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Vocabulary Flash Cards* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Reading Fluently

Reading Fluently

Use this lesson to help your ELs gain confidence as they read aloud texts. They will practice decoding strategies that will help improve fluency. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Picture Book Pacing lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Answering "Why" Questions

Answering "Why" Questions

Teach your students how to use specific vocabulary as they answer questions. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Questions that Gauge Comprehension* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Asking and Answering Questions While Reading

Asking and Answering Questions While Reading

Maximize your students' engagement when reading by teaching them how to ask and answer questions along the way. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the *Asking and Answering Questions* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative

Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative

Big, bigger, biggest? Teach your students about comparative and superlative adjectives as they make comparisons. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Nonfiction Comprehension: Compare and Contrast* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Close Reading Strategy

Close Reading Strategy

This lesson teaches your students to pay attention to small words, such as adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, to make a big difference in reading comprehension! Use as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for *Close Reading: Introduction*.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Characters Change Just Like We Do

Characters Change Just Like We Do

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Using Text Features for Comprehension

Using Text Features for Comprehension

Use this lesson to help your ELs use information from text features to better understand the text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

What’s Similar? What’s Different?

What’s Similar? What’s Different?

How are plants’ traits affected by environmental factors? In this integrated science and reading lesson, students will use multiple sources to identify and determine how traits are influenced by the environment.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Main ideas and Details

Main ideas and Details

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Urban, Suburban, or Rural

Urban, Suburban, or Rural

Students will have a blast as they engage in interactive projects to learn about the characteristics of urban, suburban, and rural communities. This lesson will help them develop both their writing and social-studies skills.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Vocabulary Flash Cards

Vocabulary Flash Cards

Making flash cards is something done by students of all ages. Help your kids develop good study habits with this lesson plan, which will teach them how to use flash cards and a dictionary to learn new vocabulary.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Making Sense of Realism and Fantasy

Making Sense of Realism and Fantasy

Is it real or is it fantasy? This lesson introduces students to the literary concepts of realism and fantasy. Readers will practice this skill by using details in texts to distinguish the two genre elements.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Determining Importance

Determining Importance

Is that fact important, or is it just interesting? Use this lesson to help your students determine importance in nonfiction text.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

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