3rd Grade ELA Foundations, Literature, and Information
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Essential Standards Chart: What do we expect students to learn?
Grade: 3rd
Trimester: All
Standard Description
ELA Strand(s):
Reading Literature &
Reading Information Text
Example Rigor
Prerequisite Skills
Team Members:
Dani Burtsfield, Richard Gross, & Michele Kisler
Common
Assessment
What prior knowledge,
What is the essential
What does proficient
skills, and/or
What assessment(s) will
standard to be learned? student work look like?
vocabulary is/are
be used to measure
Describe in studentProvide an example
needed for a student to
student mastery?
friendly vocabulary.
and/or description.
master this standard?
Student can provide
Grade level
main idea and details Understand main idea
I can find the main idea
in a graphic
is what text is mostly assessment: Student
completes graphic
and show how it is
organizer
about.
organizer showing
supported by details in
main idea and 2-3
the text.
Understand that
details.
details prove the main
idea.
Student can identify
Common Passage
a word’s:
Reference book skills (ex. Scott Foresman)
I can figure out what
Meaning
Set up with “cloze”
Context Cues
words mean in fiction
Synonym
style with 3 word
Decoding &
and non-fiction texts.
Antonym
Word Attack Skills choices for each blank
And use it in a
sentence
Student can read 3rd
grade text with
expression and
I can read 3rd grade accuracy @ 99 Fall –
Running Records
text and use strategies
120 Winter – 137
to self-correct.
Spring
CWPM:
Demonstrate self
correction skills
When Taught?
Extension Standards
When will this
standard
be taught?
What will we do when
students have learned
the essential
standard(s)?
T 1 to Mastery
Increase text
complexity & Identify
secondary theme(s)
T 1, 2. 3
Worldly Wise
Increase text
complexity
T 1, 2, 3
Increase Text
Complexity
Buffum/Mattos/Weber, 2011
3rd Grade ELA Foundations, Literature, and Information
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I can ask and answer
questions to show I
understand what I
read.
I can describe
characters in stories
and explain how their
actions affect the story.
I can compare and
contrast important
details and ideas in 2
different texts.
By the end of year, I
can read and
understand 3rd Grade
text independently.
Buffum/Mattos/Weber, 2011