ELA- Gr. 3 | EssentialsofLearning

Reading

Ask and answer questions to locate relevant and specific details in a text to support an answer or inference
Determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize portions of a text
In literary texts, describe character traits, motivations, or feelings, drawing on specific details
In informational texts, identify and use text features to build comprehension
Discuss how the reader's point of view or perspective may differ from that of the author, narrator, or characters in a text
Explain how specific illustrations or text features contribute to what is conveyed by words in a text
Explain how claims are supported by relevant reasons and evidence.
Recognize genres and make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, and personal events
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
Identify, and know the meaning of most common prefixes and suffixes
Identify, know the meaning of, and decode words with suffixes

Write an argument to support claims, using clear reasons and relevant evidence
Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary
Write informative/explanatory texts to explore a topic and convey ideas and information
Introduce a topic and organize related information
Develop a topic with facts, definitions, details, and illustrations when useful
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary
use facts and other information to develop points, and provide a concluding statement
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequence
which recount real or imagined experiences or a short sequence of events, including details to describe action, thoughts, and feelings
Create a poem, story, play, artwork, or other response to a text, author, theme, and personal experience
Conduct research to answer questions, self-generated questions, and to build knowledge
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather information from multiple sources; take brief notes and sort evidence into provided categories

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse peers, expressing ideas clearly and building on the ideas of others
Follow agreed-upon norms for discussion and participate by actively listening, taking turns, and staying on topic
Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material
Build on others' talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others
Ask questions to check understanding of information presented
Explain their own ideas and understanding of the discussion
Determine the main ideas and supporting details or information presented in diverse texts and formats
Ask and answer questions in order to evaluate a speaker's point of view
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
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations

*The Language Strand identifies Conventions of Standard English and Core Convention skills that develop from Grade 3 - Grade 5.

Demonstrate command of conventions of Standard English grammar when writing or speaking
- Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences
- Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general as well as in particular sentences
- Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why)
- Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general as well as in particular sentences
- Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns as well as abstract nouns
- Form and use regular and irregular verbs, simple verb tenses, progressive verb tenses, perfect verb tenses to convey times, sequences, states, and conditions
- Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement
- Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.
- Correctly use frequently confused words
Demonstrate command of conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
Demonstrate an understanding of word relationships and word meanings
Acquire and accurately use conversational, general, academic, and content-specific words and phrases