How to learn Grade 3: English language arts

South Carolina academic standards: English language arts, Grade 3

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1. Third Grade · Evaluate and critique ideas and concepts interactively through listening and speaking.

1. Engaging Listeners and Valuing Viewpoints: Gain, maintain and monitor the interest of listeners when speaking; consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on others' contributions; begin to select appropriate language for different situations

2. Third Grade · Through collaboration, react and respond to information while building upon the ideas of others and respecting diverse perspectives.

1. Discussing Texts as a Group: Participate in discussions about what is read, taking turns and listening to others; explain understanding clearly; actively engage in group reading activities

3. Third Grade · Organize and communicate ideas through a range of formats to engage a variety of audiences.

1. Reporting & Recounting: Report on a topic or recount an experience with organised facts and descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace

4. Third Grade · Write independently and legibly for a variety of tasks and purposes.

1. Sharing and Publishing Your Writing: Read own writing aloud clearly enough to be heard by peers and the teacher; use digital tools to produce and publish writing

5. Third Grade · Revise writing to improve clarity and enhance style appropriate to audience, purpose, and task.

1. Revising and editing (age 7+): Evaluate and edit writing by assessing effectiveness, proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary for consistency, and proof-reading for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors at Y3-4 level
2. Revising and editing (age 8+): Read back your own writing critically and independently — notice where meaning is unclear, where a word could be stronger, or where the reader might be confused; make revisions without needing teacher prompts, using your own judgment about what is and isn't working

6. Third Grade · Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using effective techniques.

1. Narrative Writing: Write narratives with developed settings, characters and plot, using dialogue and description to develop experiences and show character responses to situations

7. Third Grade · Write informative/expository texts to analyze and explain complex ideas and information.

1. Basic Informational Writing: Compose informative or explanatory texts that introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section

8. Third Grade · Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

1. Structured Opinion Writing: Compose opinion pieces that introduce a topic, state a clear point of view, provide organised reasons linked with connecting words, and include a concluding statement or section

9. Third Grade · Evaluate and critique multimedia presentations of a text or subject, including their impact on an audience.

1. Interpreting visual information in texts: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively in informational texts (e.g., charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, animations) and explain how it contributes to understanding the text

10. Third Grade · Build and apply a range of academic vocabulary, as well as grade-level appropriate morphology to apply to reading, writing, and speaking.

1. Domain Vocabulary Across Subject Areas: Acquire and use accurately academic and domain-specific vocabulary relevant to grade-level topics, including words that signal precise meaning in informational texts across subject areas

11. Third Grade · Analyze word relationships and nuances in word meanings within literary and informational texts.

1. Author's word choices: Recognise how an author's deliberate choices — of words, structure, tone, and perspective — create particular effects on you as a reader

12. Third Grade · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.

1. Discussing and Questioning New Words: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in texts; discuss word meanings and link new vocabulary to words already known

13. Third Grade · Evaluate and critique how an author uses words, phrases, and text structures to craft text.

1. How authors support their points: Explain how an author of an informational text uses reasons and evidence to support particular points, evaluating whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient
2. Text Features & Presentation: Identify how language choices, text structure and presentational features (illustrations, diagrams, bold print, layout) contribute to the overall meaning and effect of a text
3. Structural terminology: Use structural terminology (chapter, scene, stanza) to refer to parts of literary texts and describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections

14. Third Grade · Evaluate and critique how an author's perspective and purpose shape style and meaning within and across informational texts.

1. Why the author wrote it: Distinguish one's own point of view from that of the author of an informational text and identify the author's purpose

15. Third Grade · Evaluate how an author's choice of point of view or perspective shapes style and meaning within and across literary texts.

1. Narrator's Point of View: Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including distinguishing between first-person and third-person narration and explaining how the narrator's perspective shapes the reader's understanding

16. Third Grade · Evaluate and critique the development of themes and central ideas within and across texts.

1. Main Topic & Key Details: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text, determine the focus of specific paragraphs, and explain how key details support the main idea
2. Finding Theme and Summarising: Determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, and provide an objective summary that captures the key events without personal opinions

17. Third Grade · Evaluate and critique key literary elements that enhance and deepen meaning within and across texts.

1. Figurative Language and Literary Devices: Determine the meaning of figurative and connotative language in context, analyse the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, and identify literary devices such as metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, and irony
2. In-Depth Character and Setting Analysis: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details from the text such as a character's thoughts, words, actions, and interactions

18. Third Grade · Read and reread grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension.

1. Reading with Expression and Accuracy: Read aloud with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression (prosody), re-reading familiar texts to build fluency and confidence, and using context to self-correct