| Week 1 |
18/01/2026 |
22/01/2026 |
Unit 3: Heroes - Historical Fiction
- Unit Focus: To learn more about historical fiction and analyse plot and setting
- Reading Workshop: "Below Deck: A Titanic Story" SB p.21
- Reading Genre/Skills: Historical Fiction
- Word Study: Prefixes pre-, dis-, in-, im-, non-
- Language & Conventions: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Writing Workshop: Identify characters, setting and develop plot
- Preview Vocabulary: enormous, interfered, stationary, abandon, appeared (SB p.20)
- Academic Vocabulary: Related words - encourage, defeat, distinguish, achieve, command
- Student Book: p.20-p.59 | Workbook: p.2-p.11
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| Week 2 |
25/01/2026 |
29/01/2026 |
Unit 3: Heroes - Historical Fiction
- Unit Focus: To learn more about historical fiction and analyse characters
- Reading Workshop: "Flooded: A Katrina Story" SB p.65
- Reading Genre/Skills: Historical Fiction
- Word Study: Abbreviations
- Language & Conventions: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Preview Vocabulary: remember, patience, figured, temper, complain (SB p.64)
- Academic Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms
- Student Book: SB p.61-p.93 | Workbook: p.12-p.21
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| Week 3 |
01/02/2026 |
05/02/2026 |
Unit 3: Heroes - Historical Fiction
- Unit Focus: To learn more about historical fiction and infer themes
- Reading Workshop: "from Little House on the Prairie" SB p.99
- Reading Genre/Skills: Historical Fiction
- Word Study: Suffixes
- Language & Conventions: Simple Verb Tenses
- Preview Vocabulary: horribly, furious
- Academic Vocabulary: Context Clues
- Student Book: SB p.95-p.129 | Workbook: p.23-p.32
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| Week 4 |
08/02/2026 |
12/02/2026 |
Ramadan Event
Unit 3: Heroes - Biography
- Unit Focus: To learn more about themes concerning heroes and analyse text structure in a biography
- Reading Workshop: "Mama Miti" p.135
- Reading Genre/Skills: Biography
- Word Study: Vowel Teams oo, ew, ue, ui, eu
- Language & Conventions: Irregular Verbs
- Preview Vocabulary: ceremonies, tradition, medicine, lamenting, offering
- Academic Vocabulary: Figurative Language
- Student Book: SB p.131-p.163 | Workbook: p.33-p.41
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| Week 5 |
15/02/2026 |
19/02/2026 |
18th - Ramadan Begins
Unit 3: Heroes - Poetry
- Unit Focus: To learn more about theme concerning heroes and explain poetic elements
- Reading Workshop: "Poems About Heroes" p.169
- Reading Genre/Skills: Poetry
- Word Study: Vowel Teams oo, ue, ew, ui
- Language & Conventions: Pronouns
- Preview Vocabulary: triumphant, company, challenge, twinkle, curious
- Writing Workshop: Publish, celebrate, and assess
- Student Book: SB p.164-p.213 | Workbook: p.42-p.51
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| Week 6 |
22/02/2026 |
26/02/2026 |
22nd - Foundation Day
Unit 4: Events - Biography
- Unit Focus: To learn more about biography and analyze text structure
- Reading Workshop: "Outdoor Spaces and Public Places" SB p.225
- Reading Genre/Skills: Biography
- Word Study: r-Controlled Vowels
- Language & Conventions: Possessive Pronouns
- Writing Workshop: Introduce & Immerse (Opinion Essay) p.253
- Academic Vocabulary: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar
- Preview Vocabulary: skyscrapers, engineer, residents, design, scenery
- Student Book: p.220-p.257 | Workbook: p.52-p.61
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| Week 7 |
01/03/2026 |
05/03/2026 |
Unit 4: Events - Biography
- Unit Focus: To learn more about biography and identify the main idea and key details
- Reading Workshop: "From Frederick Douglass" p.263
- Reading Genre/Skills: Biography
- Word Study: VCCCV Syllable Pattern
- Language & Conventions: Contractions
- Academic Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms
- Preview Vocabulary: slavery, abolitionist, equality, appointed, influential
- Writing Workshop: Develop Elements (Develop the Topic) p.287
- Student Book: SB p.258-p.291 | Workbook: p.62-p.71
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| 6th – 28th March: Eid Al Fitr Vacation |
| Week 8 |
29/03/2026 |
02/04/2026 |
Unit 4: Events - Biography
Post-break review
- Unit Focus: To learn more about biography and explain the author's purpose
- Reading Workshop: "From Milton Hershey"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Biography
- Word Study: Latin Suffixes -able, -ible, -ation
- Language & Conventions: Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Academic Vocabulary: Context Clues
- Writing Workshop: (Develop Structure) Compose an introduction p.325
- Preview Vocabulary: succeed, determined, impressed, eventually, imagined
- Student Book: SB p.292-p.329 | Workbook: p.72-p.81
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| Week 9 |
05/04/2026 |
09/04/2026 |
Mid-Term Quiz Week
Unit 4: Events - Narrative Nonfiction
- Unit Focus: To learn more about themes concerning events by distinguishing viewpoint
- Reading Workshop: "Green City"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Narrative Nonfiction
- Word Study: Homographs
- Language & Conventions: Comparing with Adjectives
- Academic Vocabulary: Analogies
- Writing Workshop: Writer's Craft (Revise Drafts) p.365
- Preview Vocabulary: destroyed, opportunity, sustainability, reclaimed, constructed
- Student Book: p.330-p.369 | Workbook: p.82-p.91
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| Week 10 |
12/04/2026 |
16/04/2026 |
Unit 4: Events - Drama
- Unit Focus: To learn more about themes concerning events by identifying elements in a drama
- Reading Workshop: "Grace and Grandma"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Drama
- Word Study: Homophones
- Language & Conventions: Adverbs
- Academic Vocabulary: Parts of Speech
- Writing Workshop: Publish, Celebrate, and Assess (Opinion Essay) p.401
- Preview Vocabulary: immigrants, heritage, interview, permission, arrival
- Student Book: SB p.370-p.405 | Workbook: p.92-p.101
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| Week 11 |
19/04/2026 |
23/04/2026 |
Unit 5: Solutions - Informational Text
- Unit Focus: To learn and analyse text features in an informational text
- Reading Workshop: "Deep Down and other extreme places to live"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Informational Text
- Word Study: Vowel Patterns
- Language & Conventions: Comparing with Adjectives
- Writing Workshop: (Introduce & Immerse) Plan your Poetry p.465
- Preview Vocabulary: extreme, spectacular, attracts, region, transport
- Student Book: SB p.425-p.469 | Workbook: p.102-p.111
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| Week 12 |
26/04/2026 |
30/04/2026 |
Unit 5: Solutions - Informational Text
- Unit Focus: To learn more about informational texts and analyze text structure
- Reading Workshop: "Earthquakes, eruptions, and other events that change earth"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Informational Text
- Word Study: Vowel Patterns
- Language & Conventions: Comparing with Adverbs
- Writing Workshop: Develop elements (poetry) p.497
- Academic Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms
- Preview Vocabulary: surface, landforms, processes, damaging, produces
- Student Book: SB p.470-p.501 | Workbook: p.112-p.121
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| Week 13 |
03/05/2026 |
07/05/2026 |
Unit 5: Solutions - Procedural Text
- Unit Focus: To learn more about informational texts and analyze procedural text structure
- Reading Workshop: "A Safety Plan in Case of Emergency"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Procedural Text
- Word Study: Words with Suffix -en
- Writing Workshop: Develop Structure (Poetry) p.531
- Language & Conventions: Complex Sentences
- Academic Vocabulary: Context Clues
- Preview Vocabulary: prepared, emergency, memorize, responsible, instructions
- Student Book: SB p.502-p.535 | Workbook: p.122-p.131
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| Week 14 |
10/05/2026 |
14/05/2026 |
Unit 5: Solutions - Historical Fiction
- Unit Focus: To learn more about themes concerning solutions by analyzing point of view
- Reading Workshop: "The Smell of Molasses"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Historical Fiction
- Word Study: Schwa
- Writing Workshop: Writer's Craft (Revise for Structure) p.573
- Language & Conventions: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Academic Vocabulary: Figurative Language
- Preview Vocabulary: survived, astonished, dangerous, piteously, relief
- Student Book: SB p.536-p.577 | Workbook: WB p.132-p.141
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| 15th May - 1st June: Eid Al Adha Vacation |
| Week 15 |
02/06/2026 |
04/06/2026 |
Unit 5: Solutions - Traditional Tales
(3 days)
- Unit Focus: To learn more about themes concerning solutions by reading traditional tales
- Reading Workshop: "From Aesop's Fables"
- Reading Genre/Skills: Traditional Tales
- Word Study: Final Stable Syllables -le, -ture, -ive, -ize
- Language & Conventions: Edit for Commas
- Writing Workshop: Publish, celebrate, and Assess (Revise for Coherence) p.609-p.614
- Academic Vocabulary: Parts of speech
- Preview Vocabulary: elegant, remarkable, flattery, spectacle, imitation
- Student Book: SB p.578-p.613 | Workbook: p.142-p.151
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| Week 16 |
07/06/2026 |
11/06/2026 |
FINAL EXAMINATIONS
SECOND TERM EXAMINATION WEEK
- Comprehensive Grade 3 English Final Exam
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