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Grade 3 English Language Arts Chapter 7 | Teacher Guide and Answers

Grade 3 English Language Arts Chapter 7: Teacher Guide and Answers

Student lessons | Practice workbook | Teacher guide and answers | Grade 3 index

Keep this guide separate from student work. Read directions aloud when needed, but do not supply answers during the independent check. Accept equivalent responses supported by accurate evidence.

Alignment note: 2021 Alabama English Language Arts, Grade 3 standards 11, 27 and 42 (partial alignment). Alignment is marked partial because five lessons cannot demonstrate every component, recurring expectation, or individual mastery.

Day 1: Read Poetry with Meaningful Expression – Answer Key

  • 1. Rain falls and then slows as the garden brightens.
  • 2. Possible answers include taps softly, silver threads, quiet, and glow.
  • 3. At line endings when meaning requires it and at the semicolon or other punctuation.
  • 4. Answers vary; look for phrasing, rate, accuracy, volume, or expression.

Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.

Day 2: Imagery, Simile, Metaphor and Personification – Answer Key

  • 1. Metaphor.
  • 2. Personification.
  • 3. Answers vary; must use like or as in a meaningful comparison.
  • 4. Answers vary; require a link between the words and a sensory or conceptual image.

Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.

Day 3: Alliteration and Onomatopoeia – Answer Key

  • 1. Alliteration.
  • 2. Clang.
  • 3. Answers vary; beginning sounds should repeat.
  • 4. Answers vary; the sound word must fit the event.

Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.

Day 4: Write Poetry from a Visual Image – Answer Key

  • 1. Possible details: small tree, wide field, sunset light.
  • 2. Answers vary; the line should appeal to a sense.
  • 3. Answers vary; correctly identify the chosen device.
  • 4. Answers vary; the revision should be more exact.

Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.

Day 5: Independent Poetry Check – Answer Key

  • 1. Morning opens one gold eye, or the breeze awakens all.
  • 2. Gold eye, sparrows’ song, dew mirrors, warm breeze, or another supported example.
  • 3. Possible answer: hopeful or peaceful, supported by warm light, song, dew, or awakening.
  • 4. Answers vary; require original lines and a correctly labeled device.

Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.

Assessment and Reteach

  • Mastery evidence: accurate answers plus a clear explanation using the relevant source or model.
  • Developing: mostly accurate answers with partial evidence or minor errors.
  • Reteach needed: repeated conceptual errors, unsupported claims, or inability to use the chapter’s core representation.
  • Reassess with new but equivalent items rather than memorized answer-key wording.