✏️ Grammar & Language
- Nouns – common nouns (everyday objects, places, people); proper nouns (specific names with capital letters); singular and plural; regular plurals (-s, -es); irregular plurals (foot→feet, tooth→teeth, child→children)
- Pronouns – personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they; using pronouns to replace repeated nouns; possessive use: his, her, its, their (introduction)
- Adjectives – describing words; identifying adjectives in sentences; adjectives of colour, size, shape, number, taste, and texture; using adjectives to make sentences more interesting
- Verbs – action verbs (run, eat, write, play); is, am, are — being verbs; matching verbs with subjects (he runs / they run); verb forms: -ing (playing, eating)
- Adverbs (Introduction) – words that tell how, when, or where (quickly, slowly, here, there, now, soon); identifying simple adverbs of manner
- Prepositions (Introduction) – simple prepositions of place: in, on, under, over, beside, between, behind, in front of; prepositions of time: at, in, on (introduction)
- Tenses – Simple Present (I eat, she eats); Simple Past (I ate, she went); Present Continuous (I am eating); forming negatives and questions in Simple Present; common irregular past tense verbs (go→went, come→came, see→saw, take→took)
- Sentences – what is a sentence? Subject and predicate (basic); four types: statement, question, command, exclamation; capital letter start and correct end punctuation; jumbled sentences
- Punctuation – capital letters, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark; comma in a list; apostrophe for contractions (I'm, don't, can't); quotation marks for spoken words (introduction)
- Articles – 'a' before consonant sounds; 'an' before vowel sounds; basic use of 'the' for specific nouns
- Synonyms & Antonyms – common synonyms (happy–glad, big–large) and antonyms (happy–sad, big–small, day–night, hot–cold) at Class 3 level
- Rhyming Words & Word Families – identifying rhyming word pairs; word families (cat, bat, mat, sat); building vocabulary through word patterns
- Contractions – forming contractions with 'not' (is not→isn't, are not→aren't, do not→don't, cannot→can't, will not→won't); expanding contractions back to full forms
📖 Reading Comprehension
- Short Passages – Prose – reading short factual or narrative passages (4–6 sentences); answering who, what, where, when questions; finding answers directly from the text
- Poetry & Rhymes – reading simple poems; identifying rhyming words; understanding the mood; counting syllables (basic awareness)
- Vocabulary in Context – identifying meaning of a word from context; choosing the right word to fill a blank; matching words to pictures
- Picture Reading – observing a picture and answering questions; writing 2–3 sentences describing a picture
✍️ Writing Skills
- Sentence Writing – writing simple, correct sentences; adding adjectives and adverbs to basic sentences; reordering jumbled words
- Paragraph Writing – writing 3–5 sentences on a given topic with a beginning, middle, and end; using connecting words (and, but, because, so)
- Story Completion – completing a short story using picture prompts or a given beginning; giving the story a title
- Informal Letter (Introduction) – simple letter to a friend or family member: date, greeting (Dear ___), body, closing (Your friend, ___); format awareness
- Notice / Message (Basic) – writing a very simple school notice or short message with key details (what, when, where)
- Dictation & Spelling – correct spelling of common Class 3 vocabulary; word endings (-tion, -ing, -ed, -er, -est); commonly confused words (their/there, its/it's)
