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Read grade-level text with purpose and
understanding
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Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression
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Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, reread
•
Develop vocabulary by reading independently
and connect meaning to real world experiences
•
Perform rapid and accurate word naming when
reading grade level texting as necessary
Writing
Texts types and purposes
•
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts,
supporting a point of view with reasons
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Introduce topic they are writing about, state
opinion, create organizational structure
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Provide reasons that support the opinion
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Use linking words and phrases
•
Provide a concluding statement or section
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Write informative/explanatory texts to examine
topic and convey ideas and information clearly
•
Introduce topic and group related information
together; include illustrations
•
Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details
•
Use linking words and phrases to connect ideas
within categories of information
•
Provide a concluding statement or section
•
Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using effective technique,
descriptive details, and clear event sequences
•
Establish situation, introduce characters;
organize event sequence that unfolds naturally
•
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions,
thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences
•
Use temporal words and phrases to signal
event order
•
Provide a sense of closure
Production and distribution of writing
•
Produce writing in which the development and
organization are appropriate to task
•
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, and editing
•
Use technology to produce and publish writing
as well as to interact and collaborate with others
•
Use seven-trait model as criteria to assess writing
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Create jokes, plays, and fairy tales
•
Distinguish quality of work by selecting their
best work and explaining why
Research to build and present knowledge
•
Conduct short research projects that build
knowledge about a topic
•
Recall information from experiences or gather
information from print and digital sources
Range of writing
•
Write routinely over extended time for range of
discipline-specific tasks, purposes, audiences
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and collaboration
•
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions with diverse partners
•
Come to discussions prepared, having read or
studied required material
•
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
•
Ask questions to check understanding of
information presented, stay on topic, and link
their comments to the remarks of others
•
Explain own ideas and understanding in light of
the discussion
•
Determine main ideas and supporting details
of text read aloud or information presented in
diverse media and formats, including visually,
quantitatively, and orally
•
Follow multi-step oral directions
•
Retell, paraphrase and explain what has been
said by a speaker
•
Distinguish between the speakers opinions and
verifiable facts
Presentation of knowledge and ideas
•
Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount
an experience with appropriate facts and
relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at
an understandable pace
•
Create engaging audio recordings of stories or
poems that demonstrate fluid reading
•
Speak in complete sentences when appropriate
to task and situation in order to provide
requested detail or clarification
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Third Grade
Language
Conventions of standard English
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Demonstrate command of conventions of
standard English grammar and usage
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Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs,
adjectives, and adverbs in general and their
functions in particular sentences
•
Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns
•
Use abstract nouns
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Form and use regular and irregular verbs
•
Form and use the simple verb tenses
•
Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent
agreement
•
Form and use comparative and superlative
adjectives and adverbs, and choose between
them
•
Use coordinating and subordinating
conjunctions
•
Produce simple, compound, and complex
sentences
•
Demonstrate command of the conventions of
standard English capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling when writing
•
Capitalize appropriate words in titles
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Use commas in addresses
•
Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue
•
Form and use possessives
•
Use conventional spelling for high-frequency
and other studied words and for adding suffixes
to base words
•
Use spelling patterns and generalizations in
writing words
•
Consult reference materials, including
dictionaries to check and correct spellings
Knowledge of language
•
Use knowledge of language and its conventions
when writing, speaking, reading, or listening
•
Choose words and phrases for effect
•
Recognize and observe differences between
the conventions of spoken and written standard
English; compare and contrast the most
important points
•
Define and create similes
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Define, identify and create alliterations
•
Define, identify and create metaphors
Vocabulary acquisition and use
•
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown
and multiple-meaning word and phrases
•
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the
meaning of a word or phrase
•
Determine the meaning of the new word
formed when a known affix is added to a
known word
•
Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning
of an unknown word with the same root
•
Use glossaries or dictionaries to determine
or clarify precise meaning of key words and
phrases
•
Demonstrate understanding of figurative
language, word relationships, nuances in
meanings
•
Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of
words and phrases in context
•
Identify real-life connections between words and
their use
•
Distinguish shades of meaning among words
that describe states of mind or degrees of
certainty
•
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate
conversational, general academic, and domain-
specific words and phrases
WRITING
Conventions
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Write complete sentences
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Use basic punctuation correctly
•
Use correct subject-verb agreement
•
Use the past and present tense of a verb
•
Use the following parts of speech correctly:
nouns, action verbs, personal pronouns,
adjectives, conjunctions, adverbs
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Demonstrate capitalization skills for proper
nouns, titles, names of places, abbreviations, and
literary titles
•
Spell high frequency words, including irregular
plurals, correctly
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