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.3.2

Students will read and comprehend grade level text fluently.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.3.2.1

Interpret stories, dramas, and poetry at grade-level proficiency.

3.RL.10

 

LA.3.2.2

Compare similar topics from two texts.

3.RI.9

 

LA.3.2.3

Read and analyze irregularly spelled words.

3.RF.3d

 

LA.3.2.4

Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words using context clues, affixes, known root words, and glossaries or other media. 

 

3.L.4.a

3.L.4.b

3.L.4.c

3.L.4.d

 

LA.3.2.5

Formulate and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is being modified. 

3.L.1g

 

LA.3.2.6

Write routinely over an extended time period for a range of tasks, purposes, and audience. 

3.W.10

 

LA.3.2.7

Distinguish your own point of view from the narrator.

3.RL.6

Academic Vocabulary: compare, point of view

Content Vocabulary: comparative, superlative, adjectives, adverbs, irregularly spelled words, multiple-meaning words, drama, poetry