Language Smarts Level D Grade 3
A bright, no-prep language arts curriculum that builds essential skills through engaging puzzles and activities.
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2026 Third-Grade Curriculum Kit
Language Smarts Level D Grade 3
Language Smarts Level D combines language arts instruction with thinking activities that keep students actively engaged in learning. Designed for third graders, this 352-page workbook strengthens grammar, punctuation, spelling, reading, writing, vocabulary, and research skills while weaving critical-thinking practice throughout the lessons.
Students encounter a wide variety of activities, including editing challenges, sequencing exercises, riddles, wordplay, logic puzzles, and reading comprehension tasks. Along the way, they'll work with parts of speech, contractions, apostrophes, similes, metaphors, inference skills, reference tools, and other essential language arts concepts.
What makes Language Smarts stand out is its variety. Rather than relying heavily on repetitive drills, the lessons ask students to analyze, compare, classify, interpret, and apply what they are learning. This approach helps students move beyond memorization and develop a deeper understanding of how language works.
The colorful pages are well organized and approachable, with clear directions and manageable assignments that many students can complete independently. Families following a traditional school schedule can plan to complete the book in a year with roughly 2 pages per day. However, the flexible format also makes it easy to use for review, enrichment, or targeted skill practice.
For students who enjoy puzzles, problem-solving, and learning through a variety of activities, Language Smarts Level D offers a well-rounded approach to language arts that strengthens both communication and critical-thinking skills.
How to Use Language Smarts Level D Grade 3
- Plan on completing about 8–9 pages each week, or roughly 2 pages per school day. At that pace, your student will comfortably finish the workbook within a traditional school year.
- Most students can work through the lessons independently thanks to the clear directions and manageable activities. Stay available for occasional questions, especially when new grammar concepts, writing skills, or critical-thinking challenges are introduced.
- Encourage your child to explain answers when working through riddles, editing exercises, sequencing activities, and reasoning questions. Some of the best learning happens when students talk through how they arrived at an answer rather than simply writing it down.
- If you're also using Daily 6-Trait Writing, don't worry about squeezing extra writing practice into every lesson. The two programs complement one another, and many language arts concepts will naturally overlap throughout the year.
- The variety of activities is one of the strengths of Language Smarts D. Some lessons focus on grammar and mechanics, while others emphasize vocabulary, reading comprehension, research skills, logic, or wordplay. That variety helps keep lessons fresh while reinforcing important language arts skills from multiple angles.
- As the year progresses, you'll likely notice your child becoming a more careful reader, a stronger writer, and a more thoughtful communicator—all while building the confidence that comes from successfully working through challenging tasks independently.
Answers are located in the back of this book.
Publisher's Information
Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co™
Authors: Kathy Erickson & Stephanie W. Stevens
Age Recommendation: 8
Grade Recommendation: 3rd
Faith-Based: No
Consumable: Yes (can be reproduced in your own home or classroom, but not for any commercial entity or organization)
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781601441607
Format: Softcover
Awards and Endorsements from:
- September 23, 2026
ScotFlower
We love Critical Thinking Company materials. We use this to teach grammar. We skip the phonics part as he already knows it and the writing part at the end because he already has a separate writing curriculum. We do the answers mostly orally so my son does not have more writing. We skip some pages that were extras. Overall we found this comprehensive and flexible.
- September 18, 2026
Steph H.
We've just started with the Language Smarts Level D book this year. I can see it being a helpful resource to practice those skills my son learned in All About Reading. Even just in these first few weeks, he has already covered blends and digraphs, long and short vowels, and syllables. I could foresee this book bringing about some groans as the year goes on, but I will once in a while write for him while he gives me the answers if it is a particularly writing-heavy page. Overall, a great resource!
- April 17, 2025
Overwhelming and challenging.
Rachelle
We find the size of this book overwhelming. I also have to look at the answers and create a word bank. I struggle thinking of the solutions that they want. The book works fine, when I modify the assignments.
- February 25, 2025
Language Smarts Level D Grade3
Anonymous
Some of the concepts were not explained very well, and my son had trouble understanding. We will be using something else next year.
- December 18, 2024
Teaching me too!
Lirpa
I'm learning things I didn't know while going through this! We Love Everything Timberdoodle!
- April 26, 2024
Alot of information
Brittany O.
I feel the content is great but in order to finish it for the year we have to do like 8 pages a week and its a lot for my daughter.
- February 28, 2024
Fun way to practice
Brook M.
This is a fun way to practice the parts of language with a quick daily exercise. We do this as morning work with a page or two a day.
- December 6, 2023
Perhaps a Supplemental Workbook
Brooke N.
Calling this a "full Language Arts curriculum" is very generous. I would use this at most as a supplemental workbook for additional practice. Looking at the other reviews, I may be in the minority, but I will not be ordering the next level and I would not recommended using this as your only language arts material. The instructions provided are pretty minimal and some concepts are not fully explained. For example, when discussing adverbs the book says that they usually end in -ly and proceeds to have the student circle example adverbs in a few sentences. Without further discussing how adverbs can also encompass "when" words relating to time, the next page expects the student to recognize words such as "tomorrow" and "late" as adverbs as well. This is pretty consistent for the level of explanation and prese tation throughout the book. Honestly, really poorly done.
- December 1, 2023
Top-Notch product
Danielle B.
All the books from Critical Thinking Co. are top-notch products! I have used the Language Smarts books for my oldest from Level A to E and now I am doing the same with my 2nd child. Great for wiggly kids & the teacher these books are open & go with fun elements! Full color & easy to grade.
- August 10, 2023
Glad I Did
Sarah Y.
I always customize my kits, and when I bought the 3rd grade kit last year I almost removed this one because I didn't think it was really necessary. However, I am very glad I kept it in there! It covers such a wide array of English/Language Arts topics and was a great way to start getting into grammar. It usually dedicates 2 to 5 pages to each topic depending, and has a brief explanation of the topic or principle before they get started. It has helped a lot with writing too - when we try to take on writing assignments my kids tend to get overwhelmed easily, but the many sentence exercises in this book have built their confidence in building correct, detailed, GOOD sentences, so small writing assignments are much more manageable! Also easy to skip over the sections you know they are good on and just focus on what you know they need. Great for independent work too - they don't usually need my help with any of it. :)
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