Grade 3
at a glance

Fiction text: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

Nonfiction text: Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell

Video: Can Kids Change the World? | The Civil Rights Movement by Scholastic (~7 min)

Writing: informative

Nonfiction text: The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng by Sophia Gholz

Writing: narrative

Fiction text: The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum, adapted by Deborah Hautzig

Video: Iditarod Winner Shares Her Victory Story by Princess Cruises (~3 min)

Writing: Narrative

Nonfiction text: Profile of Alice Walker (Award-winning author)

Video: Alice Walker by Untold History (~2 min) 

Writing: opinion

Fiction text: Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

Fiction text: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Deborah Hautzig

Nonfiction text: Profile of Louis Latimer (Inventor of the carbon light bulb filament) 

Video: Lewis Latimer: Black Inventor by Deeper Than Read (~6 min)

Writing: informative

Fiction text: Brave Irene by William Steig 

Nonfiction text: Fly High: The Story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden

Writing: narrative

Video: Bessie Coleman by Biography (~2 min)

Writing: Narrative

Fiction text: Charlotte's Web: Wilbur's Prize by Jennifer Frantz

Nonfiction text: Profile of Sarah Loguen Fraser (one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree) 

Video: Who was Harriet Tubman? by A Kid Explains History (~4 min)

Writing: opinion

Literature text: Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

Nonfiction text: Profile of Carter G. Woodson (Created Negro History Week)

Video: Black History for Students | Carter G Woodson Biography | Father of Black History Month by Educational Videos for Students (~3 min)

Writing: informative

Fiction text: Beatrice Zinker Upside Down Thinker by Shelley Johannes 

Nonfiction text: Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan's Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal by Karyn Parsons

Writing: narrative

Fiction text: A Ticket Around the World by Natalia Diaz  

Nonfiction text: Profile of Joshua Williams (Founder of Joshua’s Heart Foundation)

Video: My Story: Joshua's Heart Foundation by Feed the Children (~2 min)

Writing: opinion