Key Concepts to Be Developed
Concepts and Skills: What Students Need to Know and Be able to Do
Reading
Language
Foundational Skills
Reading
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-‐specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topics or subject area.
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the authors of a text.
- Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
- Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
- By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
- Report on a topic, or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (come prepared, follow agreed upon rules, ask questions, explain thinking)
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, includes visually, quantitatively and orally
- Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail and clarification
Language
- Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified
- Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- Produce simple, compound and complex sentences
- Use commas and quotation marks in dialogs
- Use conventional spelling for high frequency and other studied words for adding suffixes to base words
- Ensure subject-verb and pronoun- antecedent agreement
- Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context
- Identify real life connections between words and their use
- Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty
- Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
Foundational Skills
- Distinguish long and short vowels when reading
- Recognize and read grade appropriate words
- Read on-level text with purpose and understanding
- Read on-level text with accuracy and fluency
