The document outlines 4th quarter ELA standards for 3rd grade students. It includes three categories: Literature standards which involve comparing themes, settings, and plots of fiction stories; Informational standards where students describe how authors connect ideas in non-fiction texts; and Language standards where students determine meanings of unknown words using context clues and word parts.
The document outlines 4th quarter ELA standards for 3rd grade students. It includes three categories: Literature standards which involve comparing themes, settings, and plots of fiction stories; Informational standards where students describe how authors connect ideas in non-fiction texts; and Language standards where students determine meanings of unknown words using context clues and word parts.
The document outlines 4th quarter ELA standards for 3rd grade students. It includes three categories: Literature standards which involve comparing themes, settings, and plots of fiction stories; Informational standards where students describe how authors connect ideas in non-fiction texts; and Language standards where students determine meanings of unknown words using context clues and word parts.
Standards: Students will be able to: Literature Standards (Fiction)
RL 3.9: ● Identify the setting and elements of
Compare and contrast the themes, stories in a series needed to settings, and plots of stories written by the determine the theme and analyze the same author about the same or similar plot. characters. ● Summarize the themes and plots of stories in a series. ● Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots in stories of the same series.
Informational Standards (NonFiction)
RI 3.8: ● Identify the structure of a paragraph or
Describe how the author connects ideas whole text. between sentences and paragraphs to ● Locate the sentences within a text that support specific points in a text. are the “effect of a cause,” “solution to a problem,” “steps in a process,” or “difference between.” ● Describe how these sentences and paragraphs are connected by summarizing parts of a text or the whole.
Language Standards
L 3.4: ● Recognize when the meaning of a
Determine and/or clarify the meaning of word is unknown and apply a context unknown and multiple-meaning words clue strategy to the word. and phrases based on grade 3 reading ● Break a word into parts and determine the meaning of the different parts. and content, choosing flexibly from a ● Clarify the meaning of an unknown range of strategies: context clues, word word using multiple strategies. parts, word relationships and reference materials.