3rd Grade English

(L) Language

ELA-03.L

Narrative for the Language Strand:

As they move through formal schooling, students must gain control over the many conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics. They must also learn various ways to convey meaning effectively. Language standards include the rules of standard written and spoken English as well as the use of language as craft and informed choice among alternatives. Third grade students gain control over proper use of pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and other parts of speech, produce simple, compound, and complex sentences, and demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

English grammar conventions, knowledge of language, and vocabulary extend across reading, writing, speaking, and listening and, in fact, are inseparable from these contexts. As students grow in their understanding of patterns of English grammar, they can use this knowledge to make more purposeful and effective choices in their writing and speaking and more accurate and rich interpretations in their speaking and listening.

How to help your child with the standards in the Language Strand:

Engage your child in conversations every day. If possible, include new and interesting words in your conversation.
When coming across unknown words, encourage your child to use diagrams, labels or reference materials (glossaries, dictionaries....) to find out what the definition is
Encourage your child to read on his own. The more children read, the more words they encounter and learn.
Encourage your child to "bump up" the vocabulary words they use in their writing. Help them by finding synonyms for simple words (using enormous instead of the word big)

Resources

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Calculation Method for Strands

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ELA-03.L.01

3rd Grade (ELA) Targeted Standard
(L) Strand: Language
Cluster: Conventions of Standard English

ELA-03.L.01 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Sub-Standards:

Introduce:

a. Produce complex and compound-complex sentences.
b. Form and use the progressive (e.g., I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking) verb tenses.
c. Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will walk) verb tenses.
d. Use helping and modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions.
e. Form and use prepositional phrases.

Practice:

f. Ensure subject verb-agreement.
g. Produce compound sentences.
h. Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.
i. Use regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/.
j. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
k. Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
l. Use possessive nouns.
m. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
n. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
o. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

Display proficiency in:

p. Correctly use common homophones (e.g., to, too, two; there, their).
q. Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentence (simple subject/verb agreement).
r. Use collective nouns.
s. Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs.
t. Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future.
u. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
v. Use demonstratives (that, those, these, this)
w. Use adverbs depending on what is to be modified.
x. Use and explain interjections

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can

Reasoning Targets

I can

Skills (Performance) Targets

I can

Proficiency Scale

The Student Will ...

1 Beginning

... with help, demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).

Start

2 Developing

... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).

Simple

3 Proficient

“The Standard.”
... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.

Target

4 Advanced

... demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.

Complex

Resources

Vocabulary

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ELA-03.L.02

3rd (ELA) Targeted Standard
(L) Strand: Language
Cluster: Conventions of Standard English

ELA-03.L.02 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Proficiency Scale

Sub-Standards:

Introduce:

a. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
b. Form and use possessives.
c. Add prefixes and suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
d. Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.
e. Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
f. Use punctuation to separate items in a series.
g. Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of a sentence.

h. Use a comma to set off the words yes and no (e.g., Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (e.g., It’s true, isn’t it?) and to indicate direct address (e.g., Is that you, Steve?).
i. Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works.
j. Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed and/or using spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spelling, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts).

Display proficiency in:

k. Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
l. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
m. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
n. Use commas in addresses.
o. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words.

ELA-03.L.03

3rd Grade (ELA) Targeted Standard
(L) Strand: Language
Cluster: Knowledge of Language

ELA-03.L.03 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Sub-Standards:

a. Choose words and phrases for effect.

b. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.