Grade 3 Language Arts — Term 1

Twelve weeks of Grade 3 Language Arts on one binder — weeks 1 through 12, plus the term-end check. Buy as a term, or step up to the Complete Year for a deeper discount.

Designed for the homeschooling parent who wants a single binder that says "do this today" — secular, print-and-teach, no per-week prep, no buying ten more books. Plain-language goals, not standards-speak, on every page a child sees; the formal CCSS reference lives quietly in the back-matter crosswalk.

What's Included

- **12 public-domain reading passages** (weeks 1-12), full text on the page — classic Aesop fables in the readings, simple sentence-level grammar in the skills strand, foundational opinion / narrative / informative writing in the WAGOLLs. - **4-6 text-dependent comprehension questions per reading**, mixing retrieval, inference, vocabulary, main-idea, and text-evidence. - **12 WAGOLL model texts** aligned to grade-3 CCSS writing outcomes. - **12 weekly skills practice pages** and **12 weekly word-study pages** (10 spelling words/week + Mon-Thu activities + Friday check). - **Term-end assessment** with its own answer key. - **1-page "How to use this term"** intro at the front. - **Consolidated comprehension + assessment answer keys** at the back, never on the child page. - **Color + blackline (inksaver) DOCX variants** shipped together. - **TPT bundle of the 12 weekly packs** (weeks 1-12) — buy the term, get a discount versus buying weeks individually.

Grade & Ages

- **Grade Level:** 3 (ages ~8-9) - **Length:** 12 weeks (one term of the Complete Year) - **Time per day:** 60-90 minutes

Standards Alignment

Aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) at Grade 3. The standards crosswalk page maps each strand to the relevant CCSS code; the per-week pages use plain English so a parent doesn't need standards literacy to teach.

Secular Promise

**Secular curriculum.** No religious content in the readings, the writing prompts, or the project / booklist material.

The fable and myth readings are presented as **world-culture literature** — stories that human cultures have told for centuries to explain values, origins, and how to live — not as religious instruction.

Plain secular language throughout: when a story features gods, they're taught the way they're taught in a comparative-literature class, not the way they're taught in a Sunday school.

Format

Single editable / printable DOCX (color) plus a matching blackline (inksaver) version, both in the same download. Answer keys are bound at the back so a child working through the book never sees them; a parent flips to the back to mark.

Buying more terms

This is one term of the Complete Year. To carry the rest, add **Term 2 and Term 3 (weeks 13-36)** as separate term bundles, or step up to the **Grade 3 Language Arts Complete Year** for a deeper discount on the whole 36 weeks. The **Grade 3 Complete Core Bundle** adds the other subject on one integrated calendar.