Grade 3 Month 5 The Wonder of Expression
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With the end goal of self-expression, students will define sentence types and begin to work with punctuation. They will work with vocabulary and spelling rules as well.
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Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Language Arts: Concept: Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
Connection: Your child will learn about the secrets hidden withing the English language. They will work with poetry, story and games to uncover these secrets.
Concept: Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.
Connection: Poetry and games will be the backdrop of the playful discovery of the secrets of language.
Connection: Your child will learn about the secrets hidden withing the English language. They will work with poetry, story and games to uncover these secrets.
Concept: Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.
Connection: Poetry and games will be the backdrop of the playful discovery of the secrets of language.
Curriculum Overview
DW is inspired heavily by the work of Janet Langley and Jennifer Militzer-Kopperl who wrote the book “The Roadmap to Literacy”. In our previous work in Waldorf schools in BC, Canada, we used this program exclusively. We are so impressed by the program that we have adapted it to our own literacy program! You will see that we mention it a lot as we go through the phonics rules and activities. We have taken the essentials of this amazing program and interpreted it for you for the home learning environment. If you want more details about this thorough and amazing book, we suggest you purchase it, it’s well worth it.
The English language is made up of three layers: the Alphabetic layer, the Pattern layer, and the Meaning layer. It takes a few years to work through and understand all the bits and pieces of each of these layers. We call many of these bits and pieces ‘phonics rules’. There are 33 phonics rules that DW brings to children over the span of Years 1 through 3. These years are also full of games and activities to work on decoding (matching letters to sounds – sounding out) and encoding (matching sounds to letters – spelling) as well as practice in ever expanding capacities for writing and reading. This month we’ll work on dissecting the English language in the Syllable Phase part of the DW literacy program. That tells you we are forging ahead into more and more complex phonics rules to support the mastery of reading and spelling. In Year three we are aiming the literacy program at the typical reader of third grade, a child who can sound out most words but is likely still working on spelling longer and longer words and is beginning to be able to write a pretty good paragraph. Your child may not be reading at this level, either not yet there or way ahead, and that’s ok. We will forge ahead and trust that you will determine if your child needs extra practice in a certain area or if they need extra challenges. We’ll be focused on phonics rules games and activities as well as defining the four sentence types and introducing the comma.
The English language is made up of three layers: the Alphabetic layer, the Pattern layer, and the Meaning layer. It takes a few years to work through and understand all the bits and pieces of each of these layers. We call many of these bits and pieces ‘phonics rules’. There are 33 phonics rules that DW brings to children over the span of Years 1 through 3. These years are also full of games and activities to work on decoding (matching letters to sounds – sounding out) and encoding (matching sounds to letters – spelling) as well as practice in ever expanding capacities for writing and reading. This month we’ll work on dissecting the English language in the Syllable Phase part of the DW literacy program. That tells you we are forging ahead into more and more complex phonics rules to support the mastery of reading and spelling. In Year three we are aiming the literacy program at the typical reader of third grade, a child who can sound out most words but is likely still working on spelling longer and longer words and is beginning to be able to write a pretty good paragraph. Your child may not be reading at this level, either not yet there or way ahead, and that’s ok. We will forge ahead and trust that you will determine if your child needs extra practice in a certain area or if they need extra challenges. We’ll be focused on phonics rules games and activities as well as defining the four sentence types and introducing the comma.