3rd Grade ELA Spiral Review: Daily Oral language & Grammar Practice Part 1 PRINT

This printable third grade language spiral review was designed to help new 3rd graders build mastery with critical language arts concepts like parts of speech, word work, and the foundations of editing. This meaningful morning work or ELA station activity allows students to build the skills they need to be successful and is easy enough that even teachers new to 3rd-grade language arts can feel confident implementing this resource.

With many essential 3rd-grade writing and language standards, it can be difficult to cover them all and support regular practice during the class time available. This daily language spiral is designed to solve that issue without sacrificing your writing block.

QUICK & PURPOSEFUL DAILY GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE PRACTICE

This no-prep third-grade daily ELA spiral was designed to solve that problem. Instead of trying to fit grammar, language, and editing into your already crammed language arts block, this daily language spiral is a warm-up that helps students focus on these critical skills, in short, focused chunks.

Your download includes: 

✔ 18 weeks (90 days) of standards-aligned spiraled language arts practice sheets

✔ At-a-glance scope & sequence for easy planning & prep

✔ Answer keys

The First Semester of this Third Grade Daily Language Spiral Review includes:

1) Student-friendly formatting 

• 18 weeks (90 days) of clear, easy to read 3rd-grade language arts practice
• 4 daily skills practiced throughout the week - grammar, language, word work & editing
• Skills repeat in varied formats for the whole week to build confidence
• Weekly reflection to encourage goal setting and metacognition
• Provided as a 1-page printable each week

2) Approachable practice with key grade-level language standards: 

• Nouns - common nouns, proper nouns, pronouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives & Adverbs
• Synonyms & Antonyms (to support word choice later in the year)
• Contractions & Compound words
• Homophones
• Syllable identification & Spelling patterns - short a, long a, short e, long e
• Editing for Capitalization - beginning of sentences, proper nouns
• Editing for Punctuation - end of sentences, abbreviations, contractions, commas in a series
• Editing for clarity - pronoun match, contractions, plural nouns, and moreVerbs - verb tense, irregular verbs, and revising for vivid verbs

4) Teacher support materials

• Scope & sequence
• Answer Keys for all problems
• Tips for preparation and implementation

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Benefits of the Language Spiral Format:

❑ Increase students' confidence with foundational language skills, editing & revising

❑ Build mastery of grade-level language standards in 10-15 minutes a day

❑ Identify misconceptions or skill gaps & address the quickly & effectively

❑ No prep paper-saving format fits on a single page & doesn't overwhelm students

❑ Encourages discussion about skills & strategies

Way to Incorporate this Language Spiral into your ELA Classroom

• Tutoring

• Small groups or learning centers

• Morning work, a warm-up or bellringer

• Test prep

• Homeschool

• Homework

Here's what teachers & homeschoolers say about this Language Spiral: 

♥  Can I just say WOW! This is such a great resource and it serves my writing class as a great bellringer and skills builder. It is interactive and allows the students to become more familiar with Google slides. Loving this and is worth every penny! - Alfonso M. 

♥ This is amazing! We have covered so many different topics already this year that it took forever to get to last year. Thank you! - Mary S.  

♥ Other morning work I have purchased takes my students too long to complete. My school serves breakfast, which takes some students a while to finish, and it always seems like I have a thousand things to do in the morning. I love how this resource offers the chance to review essential skills without taking 20 minutes. Thanks!!

- Hannah N. 

♥ This resource has been fantastic to use with my students in distance learning. I am so impressed with the formatting of the slides. I love how the concepts are reinforced M-F. I use these daily as warm-ups for ELA. They have also helped me identify some areas that my students needed more support in, such as understanding parts of speech, that I might not have known about had we not done these daily warm-ups. I will be using these with my class again next year even though we will be in person! – Nicole H.

♥ These are amazing! I started using them halfway through the year when I found this resource since my other daily entry wasn't working. It connects great with the growth mindset activities I've been starting to incorporate into the classroom! Thank you for this great, confidence-building activity for my students to engage in each day! :) - F.F.

♥ “I love this and have been using it all year, the students quickly fall into a routine and do the work. At the beginning of the week, I often explain what some of the questions are about, but that is teaching! I have planned my grammar unit around this resource so we are learning verbs etc when the daily work is asking us for it

– Kariann J.

♥ “This is a wonderful source that engages my students while slowly building from the activities prior. It breaks down the standards needed and it even provides a teacher outline so you can map out the future. It love this resource and would 10/10 recommend!!” - Amanda H.

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More Language Resources in the Daily ELA Line…

• Language Spiral Grade 2
• Language Spiral Grade 4
• Language Spiral Grade 5
• Language Spiral Grade 6 (Coming Soon)

Other 3rd Grade Language Arts Resources You Might Enjoy…

• Picture It! Comprehension Practice with Photographs
• Personal Narrative Writing Simplified
• 3rd Grade Novel Units

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