Common Core State Standard: RL.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Explain how specific aspects of a text
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.9
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Complexity of Text
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.8
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.9
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a sense of closure.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.8
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use the regular and irregular plural nouns
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.E
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.F
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.G
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.H
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.I
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use commas in addresses.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use possessives.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.E
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.F
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.G
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.3.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Choose words and phrases for effect.*
Common Core State Standard: L.3.3.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Explain how specific aspects of a text"s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.9
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
Common Core State Standard: RL.3.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Complexity of Text
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.8
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.9
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Common Core State Standard: RI.3.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.1.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.2.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.3.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a sense of closure.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Common Core State Standard: W.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 3 on page 29.)
Common Core State Standard: W.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.8
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Common Core State Standard: W.3.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.E
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.F
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.G
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.H
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.1.I
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use commas in addresses.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use possessives.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.E
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.F
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.2.G
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.3.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Choose words and phrases for effect.*
Common Core State Standard: L.3.3.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.4.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.5.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
Common Core State Standard: L.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.1.A
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.1.B
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.1.C
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.1.D
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
Common Core State Standard: SL.3.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
Common Core State Standard: RF.3.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Foundation
Theme:
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
Common Core State Standard: RF.3.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Foundation
Theme:
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Common Core State Standard: RF.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Foundation
Theme:
Standard Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Common Core State Standard: RF.3.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Foundation
Theme:
Standard Description: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.1
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.2
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.4
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.5
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.6
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.7
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.8
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.9
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.10
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 3.TEKS.R.DS.11
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: RF.3.3
Grade: 3
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Foundations
Theme: Reading Foundations
Standard Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
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