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.3.5

Students will increase fluency and prosody by creating and/or performing stories and dramas.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.3.5.1

Perform and record a drama fluidly, including visual displays when appropriate. 

3.SL.5

 

LA.3.5.2

Describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. Refer explicitly to parts of a text, using the terms chapter, scene, and stanza.

3.RL.5

 

LA.3.5.3

Use and form regular and irregular verbs and their tenses correctly. Form correct subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreements. 

3.L.1d

3.L.1e

3.L.lf

 

LA.3.5.4

Decode common Latin suffixes.

3.RF.3b

 

LA.3.5.5

Compose addresses and dialogue using commas and quotation marks.

3.L.2b

3.L.2c

Academic Vocabulary:

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