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.3.6

Students will create, publish, and present a five paragraph real or imaginary narrative piece.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.3.6.1

Write and publish a narrative piece which includes a narrator, character responses with dialogue, and use of temporal words to indicate an introduction, middle, and conclusion.

3.W.3a

3.W.3b

3.W.3c

3.W.3d

3.W.6

 

LA.3.6.2

Develop and strengthen writing by editing with support from an adult or peers, with a focus on simple, compound, and complex sentences.

3.W.5

3.L.1i

 

LA.3.6.3

Tell a story or recount an experience using  facts and relevant descriptive details. Speak clearly at an understandable rate.

3.SL.4

 

LA.3.6.4

Determine the central message/theme, lesson, or moral, and explain how the author’s point of view affects the story.

3.RL.2 

3.RL.9

 

LA.3.6.5

Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and ensure subject-verb agreement.

3.L.1d

3.L.1e

3.L.1f

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