Quarter 1:
These skills and processes are pulled directly from the CCSS that our district has adopted. Many of these skills and processes will be taught and practiced throughout the whole year.
Students are working on the following in Reading (Literature, Informational Text, Foundational Skills):
Students are working on the following in Writing:
Students are working on the following in Speaking and Listening:
These skills and processes are pulled directly from the CCSS that our district has adopted. Many of these skills and processes will be taught and practiced throughout the whole year.
Students are working on the following in Reading (Literature, Informational Text, Foundational Skills):
- predicting and inferring reading strategies
- explaining how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story
- use text features and search tools to locate information
- use information in a text to answer the "WH Questions" (who, what, when, where, why, how)
- use phonics skills to decode words
- identify and know what common prefixes and suffixes mean
- reading fluency and understanding
- use context to figure out meanings of unknown words
Students are working on the following in Writing:
- write with guidance from adults and peers to produce appropriate development and organization to match the purpose
- plan, revise, strengthen, and edit writing
- write routinely over extended time frames for a range of audiences and purposes
Students are working on the following in Speaking and Listening:
- engage in a range of collaborative discussions
- come prepared for discussions and explicitly draw on said preparation during discussions
- follow agreed-upon rules (School rules/CUBS: respecting each other, cooperating, etc.)
- ask questions to check for understanding
- explain one's own ideas
- ask and answer questions about information presented by a speaker
- demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking
- know nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in sentences
- use abstract nouns
- produce simple, compound, and complex sentences
- demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
- use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words
- determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies
- determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word
- use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases
- demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings
- identify real-life connections between words and their use