3rd Grade (Language Arts)

3RD GRADE

• English Lessons Through Literature - Level B: Blossoming (Three Times Weekly)

• Cursive Handwriting (Catholic Heritage Curricula) (Every Day Except Friday)

• The Harp and Laurel Wreath (Laura M. Berquist) - memorize one poem each term.

Term 1, 2, & 3 (Once Weekly)

• Classic Myths to Read Aloud (William F. Russell) - read and narrate or draw a picture

Optional Extra Free Reads

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis
• All-of-a-kind Family by Sydney Taylor
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L.Baum
• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
• Little House in the Big Woods and other books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers and other books by E.Nesbit
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
• The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald
• The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
• Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
• Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
• Bennett, William J., ed. The Book of Virtues—A Treasury of Great Moral Stories 
• Brandt, Keith Daniel Boone: Frontier Adventures
• Catling, Patrick Skene The Chocolate Touch
• Cooney, Barbara, adaptor Chanticleer and the Fox 
• Cousins, Margaret The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
• Dalgliesh, Alice The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
• D’Aulaire, Edgar Parin & Ingri Book of Greek Myths; Christopher Columbus; Leif the Lucky; 
• George Washington
• Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
• Dixon, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys Series
• Gauch, Patricia Lee Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys
• Greene, Carol Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Musical Genius
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel Tanglewood Tales aka The Wonder Book
• Holling, H.C. Paddle-to-the-Sea; Tree in the Trail
• Hurwitz, Johanna The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein
• Irving, Washington Rip van Winkle
• Kroll, Steven Lewis & Clark: Explorers of the American West
• Lawson, Robert Ben and Me
• Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia Series
• McCloskey, Robert Homer Price
• Monsell, Helen Albee Robert E. Lee: Young Confederates
• Nesbit, Edith Five Children and It
• Reit, Seymour Guns for General Washington
• Rockwell, Thomas How to Eat Fried Worms
• Roddy, Lee Robert E. Lee
• Seuss, Dr. Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• Stanley, Diane Leonardo da Vinci
• Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped
• Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of 
• Calaveras County
• White, E.B. Stuart Little
• Wyss, Johann David Swiss Family Robinson 
• Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man