Grammar Garden · Dedicated Language & Writing Curriculum

Grammar Garden Grade 3

From sentence review to clauses, commas, and real revision

440coursebook pages, four quarters

116Preceptor Guide pages

150assessment & resource pages

Grammar Garden · Grade 3 · Language & writing curriculum

Key facts

Grade: Grade 3 — one of six grade levels in the K–5 sequence.
Format: Print-at-home PDFs. The Preceptor Guide is read page by page in the browser.
What is included: Four quarterly Student Coursebooks (440 pages), a yearlong 116-page Preceptor Guide, a 150-page Assessment & Resource Book, and a 6-page Student Reference Booklet.
The week: Five days: Learn & Notice · Practice Together · Build Sentences · Edit & Revise · Write & Show — combinable to four.
Practice online: The Grammar Garden Game is the browser practice companion — practice between lessons, never the lesson.
Price: Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
Open to everyone: 8 zoomable coursebook pages, the complete 116-page Preceptor Guide, and the full 36-week scope below.

Real pages from inside the coursebooks

See the language work your child will actually do

These pages were selected from across all four quarters to show instruction, sentence building, editing, and composition — not covers, contents pages, or empty writing lines.

Inside Grade 3

Grammar that grows into writing

Pronouns and their antecedents, compound and complex sentences with the commas they demand, dialogue punctuated properly, and paragraphs that hold together — then revision taught as its own skill, not a vague instruction. Skills deliberately return after they are taught — applied again in sentence work, editing, and composition — so grammar becomes usable written language rather than a list of terms.

Pronouns, antecedents, and agreement
Compound and complex sentences, with commas
Dialogue and its punctuation
Transitions, revision, and publishing

The published plan

Grade 3 scope and sequence, all 36 weeks

Generated from the curriculum’s own skill registry — the same source the books are built from — so this table cannot drift from what the coursebooks teach. Studio, benchmark, and capstone weeks are the program’s built-in review and assessment rhythm.

Week	Strand	Focus
1	Diagnostic	Orientation, baseline writing sample, and placement diagnostic
2	Sentence foundations	Complete sentence review
3	Sentence foundations	Simple subjects and predicates
4	Grammar and usage	Common, proper, and abstract nouns
5	Grammar and usage	Plural and possessive nouns
6	Grammar and usage	Regular and irregular verbs
7	Grammar and usage	Simple tenses and agreement
8	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
9	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
10	Grammar and usage	Pronouns and antecedents
11	Grammar and usage	Subject and object pronoun forms
12	Grammar and usage	Adjectives and articles
13	Grammar and usage	Adverbs
14	Grammar and usage	Comparative and superlative forms
15	Grammar and usage	Prepositions and phrases
16	Word meaning and reference	Exact nouns and vivid verbs
17	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative studio
18	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
19	Sentence foundations	Independent clauses
20	Sentence foundations	Coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences
21	Sentence foundations	Subordinating conjunctions and complex sentences
22	Sentence development	Sentence combining
23	Sentence foundations	Fragments and run-ons
24	Mechanics	Commas in compound/introductory structures
25	Mechanics	Direct speech and dialogue punctuation
26	Mechanics	Capitals, titles, and possessives
27	Application	Application task
28	Composition	Paragraph focus
29	Composition	Order, transitions, and cohesion
30	Editing and revision	Revision for elaboration and precision
31	Composition	Narrative with dialogue
32	Composition	Informative writing
33	Composition	Opinion with reasons and evidence
34	Language for purpose	Summary and response
35	Editing and revision	Edit and publish
36	Capstone	Portfolio capstone

The Grade 3 package

All seven books, shown exactly

Four quarterly Student Coursebooks, the yearlong Preceptor Guide, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — every book in the grade package, with its real page count. The book files’ own cover pages carry the series’ cover title, Strong Sentences: Grammar, Writing & Composition, under the Faith Readers imprint.

Quarter 1 · Weeks 1–9

Student Coursebook

86 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 2 · Weeks 10–18

Student Coursebook

97 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 3 · Weeks 19–27

Student Coursebook

122 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 4 · Weeks 28–36

Student Coursebook

135 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Preceptor Guide · yearlong

Complete guide, visible before enrollment

Read all 116 pages online — the weekly rhythm, scripting, and answers in context. The teacher PDF is not publicly mounted and has no download action.

Assessment & Resource Book

Diagnostics, benchmarks, reteach cards

150 pages: the entry diagnostic, quarterly benchmarks with scoring, reteach cards for every skill, and anchor charts.

Student Reference Booklet

The rules in one durable place

A 6-page booklet of the grade’s rules and models — printed once, kept beside the child all year.

Faith Schooling All Access

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All Access includes every Grade 3 book on this page — the four coursebooks, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — along with the wider curriculum and practice library.

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