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.3.9

Read and interpret poetry and nonfiction texts.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.3.9.1

Read poetry with accuracy and at an appropriate rate and demonstrate improvement with successive readings.

3.RF.4b

 

LA.3.9.2

Use information from nonfiction text, including text features, to demonstrate comprehension. 

3.RI.7

 

LA.3.9.3

Read and comprehend nonfiction text at grade level independently and fluently, using appropriate strategies.

3.RI.10

 

LA.3.9.4

Analyze and construct sentences  using subordinating and coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but).

3.L.1h

 

LA.3.9.5

Gather information from print or digital sources, recall information from experiences, take notes, and sort evidence into categories.

3.W.8

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