Guide to the English Language Arts Standards for 3rd Grade:
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Helping at Home:
-When you travel together, ask your child to read aloud to you all kinds of signs, billboards, words on trucks and vans and other printed information that you see
-When you choose TV, videos or games, steer toward programs or films that are based on books your child has read. Watch it together, and then talk about how the versions are similar and different
- Choose an interesting, age-appropriate story from a newspaper or internet news source. Ask your child to read it aloud and then summarize for you
-Encourage your child to create his own birthday cards, get-well, holiday and thank you cards, practicing his/her best handwriting skills
-Encourage your child to use book trailers to select a first, second and third choice to read. Ask him/her to tell you why and how each video made a book sound interesting
***Information can be found in the parent guide above***
Quarterly Learning Goals
Quarter 1
- Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
- Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language.
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.
- Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.
- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text.
- Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary. Writing should align with the grade 3 rubrics.
- Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language.
- Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.
- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- Use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
- Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text.
- Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary. Writing should align with the grade 3 rubrics.
- Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language.
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.
- Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
- Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
- Use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
- Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
- Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text.
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.
- Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary. Writing should align with the grade 3 rubrics.
- Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis for answers.
- Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in the technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of the text.
- Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text.
- Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.
- Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary. Writing should align with the grade 3 rubrics.
- Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Links to Help Your Child:
Verb Mania: http://www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/126477
Exploring the Main Idea: http://www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/118795
Sequencing in a text: http://www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/119061
Detail Detectives: http://www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/100182
Writing Opinion Pieces: http://www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/119328
Informative Writing: http://www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/119068