English Language Arts Curriculum

3rd Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will apply common figurative language devices and other specific skills to comprehend unfamiliar text. Students will incorporate text evidence to support answers and write multi-paragraph papers in the three genre types.

Outcomes and Components:

LA.3.1

Students will ask and answer questions using text evidence.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.3.1.1

Answer questions referring explicitly to the text.

3.RL.1

 

LA.3.1.2

Ask questions and find answers from a speaker, adding elaboration and detail.

3.SL.3

 

LA.3.1.3

Use context clues to confirm or self correct unknown words. Reread as necessary.

3.RF.4c

 

LA.3.1.4

Write short term for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

3.W.10

 

LA.3.1.5

Write complete sentences that are simple, compound, and complex.

3.L.1i

 

LA.3.1.6

Apply concrete and abstract nouns correctly when speaking and writing. 

3.L.1b

3.L.1c

Academic Vocabulary:

Content Vocabulary: context clues, antonym, synonym, simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, conjunction, comma, subordinating conjunction, subject, predicate, verb, independent clause, dependent clause