Standards - English Language Arts

Use information gathered from research to evaluate opinions.

Use text comparisons (text to text, text to self, and text to world) to make meaning.

Use prior knowledge to determine similarities between texts they are reading and texts they have previously read.

Compare different versions of the same story.

Read prose, poetry, and dramas, identifying the literary devices used by the author to convey meaning.

Identify the narration of a literary text as first person or third person.

Determine the main idea of a text read aloud or information presented in an audible format.

Manipulate words and/or phrases to create compound sentences, including coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so, and complex sentences to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.

Write legibly in cursive with connected, correctly-formed letters and appropriate spacing between words.

Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division rules, and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately.

Apply knowledge of multisyllabic word construction and syllable division principles to encode multisyllabic words.

Encode multisyllabic words, using common syllable patterns: open/closed, vowel-r, vowel-consonant-e, vowel teams, consonant-le, and odd or schwa syllables.

Encode words with two and three letter blends and previously taught digraphs, trigraphs, combinations, diphthongs, quadrigraph eigh, vowel y, hard and soft c and g, silent letter combinations, and contractions.

Encode words with less common prefixes, suffixes, and common Latin roots.

Encode frequently confused homophones accurately, using context to determine correct spelling.

Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure.

Write informative or explanatory texts about a topic using sources, including an introduction, facts, relevant details with elaboration, and a conclusion.

Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, using an introduction, logical reasoning supported by evidence from various sources, and a conclusion.

Demonstrate knowledge of the rules of standard English grammar including punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling appropriate for third grade.

Use articles a, an, and the correctly.

Identify the role of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction within a sentence and explain the type of the information it conveys.

Form plural nouns, verbs, and possessives, including irregular plural nouns and verbs.

Use simple abbreviations, including days of the week, months of the year, titles, units of metric and customary measurement, street names, and state names.

Compose simple, compound, and complex sentences with correct subject-verb agreement.

Identify and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences.

Identify the subject and predicate of a sentence.

Compose and develop a well-organized paragraph with a topic sentence, details to support, and a concluding sentence.

Gather and evaluate information about a topic from a variety of sources, including digital sources, and utilize it to create a project, report, or presentation.

Avoid plagiarism by using their own words and utilizing digital sources ethically.

Use grade-level and domain-appropriate vocabulary in writing.

Use specific vocabulary to develop a story.

Use specific vocabulary to explain or inform on a topic.

Use words and phrases in writing for effect and elaboration.

Use transition words and phrases for sentence variety.

Write poetry or prose in response to visual images to interpret their meanings.