BPS District English Standards Book
Completion requirements
K-12 Grade Levels
Grade 03
ELA-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.