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.3.7

Students will interpret and produce correct use of figurative language.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.3.7.1

Use context clues to determine the meaning of words in literal and nonliteral phrases.

3.RL.4

 

LA.3.7.2

Interpret and produce similes, metaphors, and idioms. Distinguish between literal and non literal, apply real life connections, and discuss shades of meaning.

3.L.5a

3.L.5b

3.L.5c

 

LA.3.7.3

Utilize text illustrations to help interpret figurative language.

3.RL.7

 

LA.3.7.4

Ask and answer questions to clarify and elaborate information from a speaker and text. 

3.SL.3

 

LA.3.7.5

Decode multisyllable words. 

3.RF.3c

 

LA.3.7.6

Apply proper grammar in speaking and listening.

3.L.1a

Academic Vocabulary:

Content Vocabulary: