K-12 Grade Levels

Grade 03

3rd GradeELA-03 Standards

ELA Strand Clusters

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ELA-03.F (F) Foundations of Literacy

  • standards are mastered in first grade.
  • standards are mastered in first grade.
  • ELA-03.F.08    Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:*
  • ELA-03.F.09    Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:*
  • ELA-03.F.10    Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing from a range of strategies with varying texts.
  • ELA-03.F.11    Use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary to make connections to previously learned words and relate new words to background knowledge.
  • ELA-03.F.12    Read accurately and automatically a variety of third-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.*
  • ELA-03.F.13 mastered in second grade
  • ELA-03.F.14    Write an organized paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion.

ELA-03.C (C) Communication

  • ELA-03.C.01    Report relevant facts and descriptive details of a topic, text, story, or experience for a targeted audience.
  • ELA-03.C.02    Speak in complete sentences using proper eye contact and volume to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
  • ELA-03.C.03 is a K-2 standard
  • ELA-03.C.04    Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.
  • ELA-03.C.05 begins in sixth grade
  • ELA-03.C.06    Engage in conversations by asking and answering questions using active listening skills.
  • ELA-03.C.07    Engage collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules.

ELA-03.R (R) Reading

  • ELA-03.R.01    Comprehend information during and after listening to a grade-level text.*
  • ELA-03.R.02    Ask and answer questions about key details before, during, and after reading a variety of genres, literary, and informational texts using text evidence to compare, contrast, predict, and infer.*
  • ELA-03.R.03a    Summarize the main idea(s) with supporting details during or after reading an informational text or passage.*
  • ELA-03.R.03b    Summarize the story by including major story elements after reading a literary text or passage.*
  • ELA-01.R.04 begins in fourth grade. The main idea is taught in grades K-3 in standard R.3a.
  • ELA-03.R.05    Determine the meaning of unknown and multi-meaning words within a text.*
  • ELA-03.R.06    Use text features and previously learned text features to read and understand a text or passage.*
  • ELA-03.R.07    Identify examples of literary devices:
  • ELA-03.R.08    Analyze a variety of fiction and poetry texts.
  • ELA-03.R.09    Determine the most important points and key details presented in two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

ELA-03.Wr (Wr) Writing

  • ELA-03.Wr.01    Produce writing that is organized appropriately to the task, purpose, or audience.*
  • ELA-03.Wr.02    Write using an organizational structure incorporating a topic sentence, body, and a concluding statement appropriate to the task.*
  • ELA-03.Wr.03    Write organized informative pieces that include factual details on the topic.
  • ELA-03.Wr.04    Write organized opinion pieces on a topic using evidence to support the opinion.
  • ELA-03.Wr.05    Write narrative pieces that describe a well-elaborated real or imagined event in a sequence that unfolds naturally.
  • ELA-03.Wr.06    Develop and strengthen writing utilizing the five steps appropriate to the task and purpose.
  • ELA-03.Wr.07    Write with intentional word choice that integrates emotion and descriptive language to develop visual imagery for the reader.
  • ELA-03.wL.01    Compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.*
  • ELA-03.wL.02    Recognize and use parts of speech in sentences:*

ELA-03.IR (IR) Inquiry and Research

(IR) Customize to Gr
  • ELA-03.IR.01    Choose a topic of interest to research.
  • ELA-03.IR.02    Locate relevant information on a topic from a provided credible source or database.
  • ELA-03.IR.03    Use organizational tools to track information from a provided credible source relevant to a topic.
  • ELA-03.IR.04    Identify a fact or an opinion based on information provided by the author.
  • ELA-03.IR.05 begins in fourth grade.