Standards
Language Arts
During the 3rd grade year, your child will encounter the following skills and concepts
in their Language Arts Classroom:
Foundational Skills
Language Arts
During the 3rd grade year, your child will encounter the following skills and concepts
in their Language Arts Classroom:
Foundational Skills
- Know and apply phonics and decoding skills
- Know the meaning of the most common prefixes and suffixes
- Decode words with common Latin suffixes
- Read irregularly spelled words (words that don’t follow the rules)
- Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Determine main ideas and supporting details
- Ask and answer questions and make inferences; cite text evidence
- Make connections within a text and between texts, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect
- Explain the point of view of the author
- Identifies and uses text features to aid comprehension
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases
- Use text features to gain understanding from the text
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
- Acquire and use grade level conversational, academic, and content vocabulary
- Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently
- Determine the message, lesson or moral; cite text evidence
- Ask and answer questions and make inferences; cite text evidence
- Describe characters and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
- Explain the point of view of the author
- Refer to specific text structures when writing or speaking about a text (chapter, scene, stanza) and describe how each part builds upon earlier sections
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases
- Explain how illustrations create mood and emphasize aspects of a character or setting
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters
- Acquire and use grade level conversational, academic, and content vocabulary
- Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently
- Write for different purposes and audiences
- Write clear and focused text to define a perspective
- Demonstrate a command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing
- Use digital tools to produce and publish writing
- Cite text evidence to support responses to literature and informational text
- Participate in individual or shared research and writing projects
- Engage in a range of collaborative discussions
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details from a text read aloud for information presented
- Ask questions to understand or clarify what a speaker says, offering appropriate detail
- Report on a topic, tell a story, or recount an experience, with adequate volume, pacing, and pronunciation
- Add visual displays to presentations
- Use conventions of standard English when speaking