Class 3 English: units and learning outcomes
MangoMindz teaches Class 3 English in 11 units at NCERT standard. Each unit is split into short parts with a picture lesson, read-aloud and a quiz.
📖 Unit 1: Reading Short Stories
Read little stories and find out who, where, what happened and why.
- Who is in the story and where
- What happened first, next and last
- Why did the character do that?
- What the story is mostly about
- Working out a new word
- Retell the story in my own words
🎵 Unit 2: Poems and Rhymes
Play with words that rhyme, clap the beat, and write your own little poem!
- Rhyming words and rhyme pairs
- Rhythm and clap the beat
- Recite with expression
- Picture words in poems
- Feelings in a poem
- Write a 4-line rhyme
🔤 Unit 3: Sounds and Spelling
Read and write words with special sounds like 'sh', 'ai', and magic 'e'!
- Blends and digraphs
- Magic e
- Vowel teams
- Plurals with -s and -es
- Tricky sight words
- Spelling in sentences
📚 Unit 4: Words and Meanings
Learn new words, their opposites, and how to find them in a dictionary!
- Word families: play, player, playground
- Opposites: hot and cold, big and small
- Words that mean the same: big and large
- Describing words: size, colour and feelings
- Using a picture dictionary
- Alphabetical order: first letter, then second
- Choosing the right word in a sentence
🏷️ Unit 5: Naming Words
Learn naming words for people, animals, places and things. Also special names, one and many, and group words!
- What is a naming word?
- Special names with capital letters
- One and many: adding -s and -es
- Irregular plurals: children, feet, teeth
- Group naming words
🏃 Unit 6: Action Words
Learn doing words and how to use them for now and before!
- What is an action word?
- Using is, am, are with he, she, I, they
- Happening now with -ing
- Already happened with -ed
- Special past words: went, ate, saw, ran
- Matching action to one or many
🎨 Unit 7: Describing Words
Learn describing words for size, colour, shape, taste, feel and number. Make sentences interesting!
- What are describing words?
- Kinds of describing words
- Describing word before the noun
- The noun is describing word
- Comparing with -er and -est
- Making sentences interesting
🔤 Unit 8: He, She, It, They and A, An, The
Learn to use he, she, it, they and a, an, the the right way!
- Pronouns: He, She, It, They
- More Pronouns: I, You, We
- A or An?
- The: For a Particular Thing
- No Article with Names
- Put It Together: Pronouns and Articles
✏️ Unit 9: Sentences and Punctuation
Learn to write full sentences with capital letters and the right end mark!
- What is a full sentence?
- Capital letters at the start and for names
- Full stop, question mark, exclamation mark
- Asking questions with what, where, when, who, why
- Joining sentences with and/but
- Putting words in order
✍️ Unit 10: Writing Short Texts
Write about pictures, your pet, notes, diary lines, and invitations!
- Describing a Picture
- Writing a Paragraph with a Topic Sentence
- Writing a Short Message or Note
- Writing a Diary Line
- Writing an Invitation or Thank-You Note
🗣️ Unit 11: Listening and Speaking
Talk clearly, listen well, ask questions, and give directions!
- Greetings and Polite Words
- Describing a Picture
- Giving and Following Directions
- Asking Questions to Find Out
- Listening and Answering
- Speaking Clearly
Free printable charts
- Opposite Words: 40 English opposites and 26 Hindi विलोम शब्द in pairs. (Class 1–3 · ages 6–9, free PDF)
- Rhyming Words: 30 English word families and 15 Hindi तुकांत sets. (Class 1–3 · ages 6–9, free PDF)
- Phonics Sounds: Letter sounds a to z, digraphs and vowel teams with picture words. (Class 1–3 · ages 6–9, free PDF)
- Days and Months: The 7 days and 12 months in English and Hindi, with days in each month. (Class 1–3 · ages 6–9, free PDF)