Grade 3 Word Study Curriculum
Family-facing version of the grade 3 Word Study curriculum
Quarterly Overview of Grade 3 Word Study
The objectives and outcomes for each unit are common across FCPS and based on the Virginia Standards of Learning. The pacing by quarter and by week provides an example of how the curriculum can be organized throughout the year. Teacher teams may adjust the pacing or order of units to best meet the needs of students.
Units and Details
Unit 1: Building a Community of Word Learners
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 2: Directional Prefixes and Open Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 3: Directional Prefixes and Closed Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 4: Size and Quantity Prefixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 5: Homophones
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
- Use knowledge of homophones.
Unit 6: Singular Possessives and Contractions with Pronouns
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
- Use singular possessives.
- Use apostrophes in contractions with pronouns and in possessives.
Unit 7: Noun Suffixes and R-Controlled Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 8: Adjective Suffixes and Consonant -ie Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 9: Adverb Suffixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 10: Irregular Plurals and Past Tense Verbs
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
- Use past and present verb tense.
- Use correct spelling including irregular plurals.
Unit 11: Negative Prefixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 12: Word Roots with One Form
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Unit 13: Word Roots with Two Forms
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
- Decode regular multisyllabic words.
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of new words.
Virginia Department of Education Resources
Assessments
Student assessments are part of the teaching and learning process.
- Teachers give assessments to students on an ongoing basis to
- Check for understanding
- Gather information about students' knowledge or skills.
- Assessments provide information about a child's development of knowledge and skills that can help families and teachers better plan for the next steps in instruction.
In Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), grade 3 tests focus on measuring content knowledge and skill development.