Grade 3 English: Literature, Poetry, and Drama

Free Grade 3 English unit on Literature, Poetry, and Drama: 9 lessons in order. Includes practice questions and answer keys.

9 lessons in this unit

Read and talk about traditional stories passed down through families and communities, and the lessons they teach.

Read folktales from different parts of the world and compare their characters, settings and morals.

Read a short story and talk about its characters, setting, plot, point of view and the author’s message.

Read poems, notice how they look and sound, and talk about what they make us see and feel.

Notice the beat (rhythm) and matching end sounds (rhyme) in poems, and write simple rhyming lines.

Understand and write similes that compare two different things using like or as.

Recognise and use words that sound like the noises they describe.

Read and perform a short script, using stage directions, dialogue and expression.

Share your thoughts and feelings about a story or poem and support them with reasons from the text.