English Language Arts, Grade 3, 2007
1.) Apply advanced phonetic analysis to multiple-syllable words, including consonants, short vowels, blends, long vowel markers, and r-controlled vowels.
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2.) Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge of compound words.
• Using structural analysis to develop meaning
Examples: prefixes, suffixes, root words
• Drawing semantic maps
• Recognizing new synonyms and antonyms
• Spelling correctly compound words, phonetically regular words, contractions, and possessives, including using dictionary to check spelling
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3.) Use a wide range of strategies, including using context clues and predicting outcomes, to comprehend third-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
Examples: stories, trade books, poems
• Reading fluently 110-120 words per minute
• Identifying literary elements and devices
Examples: characters, similes
• Determining sequence of events
• Distinguishing fiction from nonfiction
• Using sentence structure to assist in comprehension
• Drawing conclusions to determine authors' intent
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using vocabulary knowledge to construct meaning
• Relating main ideas to prior knowledge and specific life experiences
• Previewing and predicting to anticipate content
• Utilizing text features to gain meaning
• Using prior knowledge and experience
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4.) Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including retelling information, using context clues, and making inferences to identify main idea, to comprehend third-grade informational and functional reading materials.
• Using sentence structure to assist in comprehension
• Distinguishing main idea from details
• Summarizing passages to demonstrate understanding
• Utilizing text features to gain meaning
Examples: titles, headings, glossary, boldface, index, table of contents, maps, charts, tables
• Using vocabulary knowledge to enhance comprehension
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding
• Following simple written directions
• Ordering by importance or chronology
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5.) Compare poetry, folktales, and fables in respect to their genre characteristics.
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6.) Recognize linguistic and cultural similarities and differences in multicultural literature.
Examples: regional dialects, clothing, food, games
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7.) Compare fictional characters and events to real-life experiences.
Example: relating hardships faced by early settlers in literature to hardships faced by families today
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8.) Use text features to guide interpretation of expository texts, including italics, headings, maps, and charts.
Examples:
- social studies--locating physical features on a map
- science--interpreting weather data from charts and tables
• Interpreting the author's purpose or intent in a given text
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9.) Compose narrative texts using an introductory paragraph, specific time frames, clear sequencing of events, and a conclusion.
• Determining purpose and audience prior to writing
Examples:
- purpose--writer addresses topic in correct mode
- audience--writer uses appropriate tone
• Demonstrating clarity and organization in a composition
• Composing descriptive texts using sensory details and vivid language
• Composing expository texts using appropriate sequencing of ideas or steps in a process
• Using complete sentences, varied sentence structure, and appropriate transition words in a composition
• Demonstrating the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
• Using graphic organizers during prewriting
• Using figurative language to enhance written text
Examples: simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor, alliteration
• Utilizing precise vocabulary in written presentations
Examples: gorgeous instead of pretty, prosperous instead of rich
• Demonstrating correct spelling in final written text
• Responding in writing to open-ended questions
• Utilizing bullets to organize major details and ideas to support a topic
• Demonstrating the ability to write legibly in cursive
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10.) Apply mechanics in writing, including capitalization of proper nouns and titles of people and appropriate end marks, abbreviations, and commas with dates.
• Identifying friendly letter parts and related punctuation marks
• Using apostrophes with contractions and possessives
• Underlining or italicizing book titles
• Using commas to separate items in a series, in a physical address, and before the conjunction in a compound sentence
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11.) Recognize nouns, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions, and adjectives in written texts.
• Demonstrating use of nouns, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions, adjectives, and verb tenses in writing
• Demonstrating use of subject-verb agreement in writing
• Demonstrating use of forms of adjectives in writing
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12.) Demonstrate retrieval skills needed to research a topic.
• Formulating questions based on a topic
• Using appropriate reference materials
Examples: dictionaries, atlases, almanacs, thesauruses, technology resources, news and feature articles
• Evaluating relevant information gained through research
• Recognizing text features, including italics, captions, sidebars, photographs, and illustrations
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13.) Demonstrate the ability to follow multistep oral directions.
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14.) Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with oral narrative presentations.
• Using dramatizations with oral descriptive presentations
• Using figurative language to enhance oral communication
Examples: simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor, alliteration
• Utilizing precise vocabulary in oral presentations
Examples: exceptional instead of good, brilliant instead of smart
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