2023 Third-Grade Curriculum Kit

We wanted our Curriculum Handbook to be extremely simple, easy to use, and promote independent study as early as possible. Our guides are designed to get you up and running today without being overwhelming, boring, or confusing.

Language Smarts is a complete language arts curriculum that will improve your student’s reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills. But unlike traditional workbooks, Language Smarts also employs both convergent and divergent thinking in its exercises. Perfect for the child who prefers to work independently, Language Smarts pages are brightly colored and contain enough white space to feel easily doable. 

Mosdos Press Literature is a complete literature program that reinforces the ideals of courage, honesty, loyalty, and compassion. Readings are from both classic and contemporary works. Mosdos Press Literature includes a beautifully illustrated student reader with selections of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, the novella; an engaging student activity workbook; and a detailed and well-organized teacher’s edition. 

Opal integrates language skills with literature for third-grade readers, building on their recently-acquired comprehension and reading fluency skills. 

Spelling You See will help your child become a confident, successful speller, naturally and at his own speed. Because Spelling You See encourages visual memory rather than rote memory, there are no weekly spelling lists or tests and very little instructor preparation is required.

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Using a multi-sensory approach, four basic shapes, and just ten weeks, CursiveLogic will teach your child proper formation and connection for all letters. Rather than teaching each letter individually, CursiveLogic teaches concurrently all the letters that share a common shape.

Develop students' writing skills in each of the six traits with engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons. With 125 dynamic lessons, Daily 6-Trait Writing will provide instruction and practice essential to becoming a competent writer.

Children who have a solid grasp of word roots are bound to have better reading comprehension skills, primarily because they have acquired the ability to decode words. Word Roots will teach your children the meanings of Latin and Greek prefixes, roots, and suffixes of words commonly used in English.

Profound thinking requires both imagination and intellectual ideas. To produce excellence in thinking, we need to engage our children in a curriculum that overlaps the logical and the imaginative sides of thinking. Critical & Creative Thinking Activities does just that with theme-based units giving your child practice thinking in a variety of ways. 

The Story of the World Volume 3, (1600 to 1850 AD). The Story of the World includes the details of battles, kingdoms, cultures, and customs from every continent and major people group woven together into a story that children will find mesmerizing. With short chapters, The Story of the World presents history in small, easily digestible chunks. Easily adapted for use with multiple grades/students.

Don't just read about history, experience it! Color a picture of Captain Cook in Botany Bay, design an Ottoman pattern, play the Battle of Bunker Hill board game, and pan for gold. This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide for The Story of the World 3 contains review questions, activity or coloring pages, maps, suggested literature and history readings, and projects for grades 1-6 from each chapter.

Significant in the making of history are the epic disasters that forever transformed societies and industries. Every disaster leaves an indelible mark on history. In the graphic novel Disasters in History, we have selected 8 that have left their mark on humanity. Disasters in History makes these gripping stories of important historical disasters accessible to even the most reluctant of readers. 

The Story of the World Volume 3 Audio Book, Professionally-rendered unabridged audio edition of The Story of the World Volume 3. Read by Jim Weiss whose voice is "liquid gold". Ideal for the busy homeschooler.

While you read historical accounts from Story of the World aloud, your avid artist can color in and assemble the detailed figures of twenty people who shaped history. 

Skill Sharpeners Geography lets your child explore his world while learning key map skills and geography concepts with little fuss on your part. It takes your child beyond just the basics of geography and includes a smattering of histories and cultures within our world.

Dr. Bonyfide is a young person's highly entertaining guide to their own body. Dr. Bonyfide Presents will creatively guide your child through the bone structures of his body using kid-friendly jokes, rhymes, puzzles, fun facts, and original comic strips.

Science in the Scientific Revolution covers scientific developments from 1543 to the end of the 1600s. 

Fairly bursting with experiments, Berean Science offers students an opportunity to study science through the lens of history. Using a narrative dialogue and a Christian worldview, Berean Science teaches science chronologically, so there are vast and varied science topics. Each lesson concludes with questions or additional activities for "younger," "older," and "oldest" students, so Berean Science lends itself well to multigrade homes that prefer to use just one science curriculum for the entire family.

The Berean Science Notebooks are a convenient companion to the Berean texts for busy families. The layout of these Berean Science Notebooks provides just the right amount of lined and unlined space for each lesson. Some lessons even include fill-in-the-blank sentences, diagrams, or other helpful elements.

The Lab Kit for Science in the Scientific Revolution contains over 30 of the items that are uncommon household items. This handy kit has virtually all of the more unusual household stocked items in just the quantities you’ll need to complete your experiments.

Please note: Lab kits are non-returnable.

Zentangles for Kids is an easy-to-learn, fun way to create striking images by drawing structured patterns. Zentangle for Kids intentionally facilitates a shift in focus while improving your child's eye-hand coordination and fine-motor skills.

The Test Prep series offers students the essential groundwork needed to prepare for standardized tests. Based on subject areas covered by most state standardized tests, these colorful, inviting workbooks provide a good sampling of all the skills required of each grade level.