# Grade 3: English language arts A course roadmap (english-language-arts). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 15 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/tn-ela-grade-3 Part of: [Tennessee: English language arts](https://ai.page/roadmap/tn-ela.md) Goal: Tennessee academic standards: English language arts, Grade 3 ## 1. Writing · Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using an effective technique, such as descriptive details and clear event sequences. - [Narrative Writing](https://ai.page/c/narrative-writing/index.md): Write narratives with developed settings, characters and plot, using dialogue and description to develop experiences and show character responses to situations ## 2. Writing · Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information. - [Writing to inform](https://ai.page/c/writing-to-inform/index.md): Compose informative or explanatory texts using drawing, dictating, or writing that name a topic and supply some information about it - [Basic Informational Writing](https://ai.page/c/basic-informational-writing/index.md): Compose informative or explanatory texts that introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section ## 3. Writing · Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. - [Structured Opinion Writing](https://ai.page/c/structured-opinion-writing/index.md): 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 ## 4. Foundational Literacy · Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. - [Shades of Meaning](https://ai.page/c/shades-of-meaning/index.md): Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing similar actions and among adjectives differing in intensity; make real-life connections between words and their use - [Discussing and Questioning New Words](https://ai.page/c/discussing-and-questioning-new-words/index.md): Ask and answer questions about unknown words in texts; discuss word meanings and link new vocabulary to words already known - [Literal vs Figurative Language](https://ai.page/c/literal-vs-figurative-language/index.md): Distinguish literal from nonliteral (figurative) language in context and interpret common idioms and phrases ## 5. Foundational Literacy · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. - [Greek and Latin Roots for Word Meaning](https://ai.page/c/greek-and-latin-roots-for-word-meaning/index.md): Use knowledge of Greek and Latin affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and roots as clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, building a bank of common roots and their meanings ## 6. Foundational Literacy · Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when speaking and conventions of standard English grammar and usage, including capitalization and p - [Starting and Ending Sentences](https://ai.page/c/starting-and-ending-sentences/index.md): Begin sentences with a capital letter and end them with the appropriate mark (full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark); recognise and name end punctuation - [Formal and Informal English](https://ai.page/c/formal-and-informal-english/index.md): Recognise and compare formal and informal uses of English, understanding that language choices vary based on audience, purpose and context ## 7. Foundational Literacy · Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. - [Reading fluently](https://ai.page/c/reading-fluently/index.md): Read aloud books matched to phonic ability accurately and with growing fluency; reread familiar texts to build confidence, speed, and expression - [Reading with Expression and Accuracy](https://ai.page/c/reading-with-expression-and-accuracy/index.md): Read aloud with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression (prosody), re-reading familiar texts to build fluency and confidence, and using context to self-correct ## 8. Foundational Literacy · Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when encoding words; write legibly. - [Syllables (age 6+)](https://ai.page/c/syllables-age-6/index.md): Decode words of two or more syllables by breaking them into syllable chunks, applying knowledge that every syllable must contain a vowel sound, and blending the parts together ## 9. Foundational Literacy · Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text. - [Blending Sounds to Read Words](https://ai.page/c/blending-sounds-to-read-words/index.md): Apply phonic knowledge to blend sounds in unfamiliar words containing taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences; respond speedily to graphemes for all 40+ phonemes - [Prefixes and suffixes](https://ai.page/c/prefixes-and-suffixes/index.md): Read words containing common prefixes and suffixes from the Y3-4 programme, applying knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology) to read aloud and understand new words ## Health: 0 of 100 Of its 15 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version. Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI): - Narrative Writing has no explanation yet - Writing to inform has no explanation yet - Basic Informational Writing has no explanation yet - Structured Opinion Writing has no explanation yet - Shades of Meaning has no explanation yet - Discussing and Questioning New Words has no explanation yet - Literal vs Figurative Language has no explanation yet - Greek and Latin Roots for Word Meaning has no explanation yet - Starting and Ending Sentences has no explanation yet - Formal and Informal English has no explanation yet - Reading fluently comes before Blending Sounds to Read Words, which it needs - Reading fluently has no explanation yet - Reading with Expression and Accuracy has no explanation yet - Syllables (age 6+) comes before Blending Sounds to Read Words, which it needs - Syllables (age 6+) has no explanation yet - Blending Sounds to Read Words has no explanation yet - Prefixes and suffixes has no explanation yet Credit: The structure of Tennessee academic standards: English language arts (https://www.tn.gov/assets/entities/sbe/attachments/4-15-16_V_B_English_Language_Arts_Standards_Attachment.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.