2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Dates
All Year
Aug.
22-26
Enduring
Skills/Understandi
ngs
Anchor Standard 1
Write arguments to
support claims.
Anchor Standard 2
Write informative/
explanatory texts to
convey ideas and
information
Anchor Standard 3
Write narratives to
develop real or
imagined experiences
Unit Topic
Journaling
Standards
Writing 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research,
reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two)
for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Targets
Essential
Vocabulary
Journal
Purpose
Task
Prompt
*Identify the various purposes for writing
*Identify and understand the various organizational structures related to different
genres or purposes for writing
*Determine when to write for short or extended time frames for a range of
discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences
*Determine the appropriate organizational structure needed for specific audiences
and purposes
Write for various purposes and to various audiences for short or extended time
frame for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences
Sentences
Charlie McButton
Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Language 1.i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Sentence
Targets
*Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
*Define and identify sentences and fragments.
*Produce simple sentences.
Aug. 29Sept. 2
Subjects and
Predicates
-Complete
Sentences
What About Me?
Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Language 1.i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Targets
*Define and identify the subject and the predicate (verb) in a sentence.
*Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
* I can produce a simple sentence.
Complete
Sentence
Fragment
Subject
Predicate
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Sept. 6-9
Declarative and
Interrogative
Sentences
-Complete
Sentences
Kumak’s Fish
Sept.
12-16
Imperative and
Exclamatory
Sentences
-Complete
Sentences
Supermarket
Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Language 1.i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Targets
*I can identify and define sentences that are statements (declarative).
*I can identify and define sentences that are questions (interrogative).
*Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
* I can produce a simple statement.
* I can produce a simple interrogative sentence.
Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Language 1.i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Language 2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Complete
Sentence
Fragment
Declarative
Interrogative
Complete
Sentence
Fragment
Imperative
Exclamatory
Targets
*Recognize and correctly use imperative and exclamatory sentences.
*Write a simple imperative sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation.
*Produce a simple exclamatory sentence with correct capitalization and
punctuation.
*Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
*Produce complete simple sentences about a given topic.
*Speak clearly while sharing written sentences.
Sept.
19-23
Compound
Sentences
My Rows and
Piles of Coins
Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Language 1.i._ Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Language 2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Targets
* Use and understand compound sentences.
* Combine two simple related sentences to produce a compound sentences.
Complete
Sentence
Fragment
Simple
Sentence
Compound
Sentence
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Sept.
19-23;
26-29
Paragraph Writing Writing 4. With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the
development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose
Speaking/Listening 4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an
experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking
clearly at an understandable pace.
Paragraph
Main Idea
Details
Indent
Targets
*Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
* Produce compound sentences.
Oct. 10-14
Common and
Proper Nouns
Penguin Chick
Language 1.a.Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions
in particular sentences.
Language 2.a. Capitalize important words in titles.
Noun
Common
noun
Proper noun
Targets
* Identify and define a noun.
* Use and understand common and proper nouns.
Oct. 17-21
Singular and Plural
Nouns
I Wanna Iguana
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Language 1.b.Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
Targets
*Identify and define singular and plural nouns.
*Form and use singular and plural nouns.
Noun
Singular noun
Plural noun
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Oct. 10Nov. 11
Oct. 24-28
Anchor Standard 2
Write informative/
explanatory texts to
convey ideas and
information
Anchor Standard 6
Use technology to
interact and
collaborate with
others.
Anchor Standard 8
Assess the credibility
and accuracy of
sources.
Anchor Writing
Standard 10; Note on
range and content of
student writing;
Anchor Writing
Standard7-9
Build knowledge on a
subject through
research.
Informative/
Explanatory
Writing
Writing 2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey
ideas and information clearly.
a. Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations
when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
c. Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect
ideas within categories of information.
d. Provide a concluding statement or section.
Writing 4. With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the
development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Writing 5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and
strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising editing, rewriting, or trying a
new approach.
Writing 6. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and
publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with
others.
Writing 8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print
and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided
categories.
Purpose for
writing
Informative
Explanatory
Topic
Linking words
Conclusion
Revise
Edit
Rewrite
Targets
*Identify: topic, facts, definitions, details, linking words and phrases to connect
ideas within categories of information, and concluding statements or sections
*Develop and Write informative/explanatory text that includes: a topic that groups
related information together, illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension,
and a topic (with facts, definitions, and details), linking words and phrases to
connect ideas within categories of information, and a concluding statement or
section to: examine a topic, convey ideas, and convey information clearly
Irregular Plural
Nouns
Prudy’s Problem
and How She
Solved It
Language 1.b. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
Targets
*Identify and define regular and irregular plural nouns.
*Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
Noun
Irregular
plural noun
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Oct. 31Nov. 4
Nov. 7-11
Nov.
14-18
Singular and
Possessive Nouns
Tops & Bottoms
Language 2.d. Form and use possessives.
Plural Possessive
Nouns
Amazing Bird
Nests
Language 2.d. Form and use possessives.
Main and Helping
Verbs
Pushing Up the
Sky
CCSS Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions
in particular sentences.
Targets
*Identify and define possessive nouns (singular).
*Form and use singular possessive nouns
Targets
*Identify and define possessive nouns (plural).
*Form and use plural possessive nouns.
Noun
Singular noun
Possessive
noun
Noun
Plural
possessive
noun
Verb
Main verb
Helping verb
Targets
*Identify and correctly use main verbs.
*Identify and correctly use helping verbs.
Nov. 21Dec. 2
Action and Linking
Verbs
How Do You Raise
a Raisin?
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Language 1.e. Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb
tenses.
Verb
Action verb
Linking verb
Targets
*Define and identify action verbs.
*Define and identify linking verbs.
*Recognize and use action and linking verbs.
Dec. 5-16
Verb Tenses
A Symphony of
Whales
Language 1.f.Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Targets
*identify and use present, past, and future tense verbs.
*Write sentences with verbs in present, past, and future tense.
Verb tense
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Jan.
3-6
Jan.
9-13
Subject-Verb
Agreement
Seeing Stars
Language 1.f. Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Irregular Verbs
Around One
Cactus
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions
in particular sentences.
CCSS Language 1.d. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Targets
*Use and understand subject-verb agreement.
Targets
*Use and understand irregular verbs.
*Explain the function (job) of a verb.
*Define an irregular verb.
Subject and
verb
agreement
Irregular verb
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Jan. 17–
Feb. 24
Anchor Standard 3
Write narratives to
develop real or
imagined experiences.
Anchor Standard 6
Use technology to
interact and
collaborate with
others.
Anchor Standard 8
Assess the credibility
and accuracy of
sources.
Narrative Writing
Writing 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using
effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an
event sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop
experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
d. Provide a sense of closure.
Writing 5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and
strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising editing, rewriting, or trying a
new approach.
Writing 6. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and
publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with
others.
Writing 8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print
and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided
categories.
Targets
*Define narrator and character.
*Identify: story elements, structure of a narrative, how writers establish a
situation, and correct use of dialogue
*Explain how: writers use dialogue to develop a narrative and how writers develop
characters
*Identify how temporal words and phrases are used to develop a sequence of
events
*Recognize closure in others’ writing
*Establish a situation in writing.
*Formulate appropriate dialogue between characters
* Develop characters through dialogue, actions, thoughts feelings, as well as
responses to situations
*Develop events through dialogue, actions, thoughts and feelings
*Use temporal words to organize narrative into logical sequence
*Formulate logical conclusions
*Write a narrative that: establishes a situation, introduces a narrator or
character(s), uses dialogue & descriptions to reveal actions, thoughts, & feelings,
uses temporal words and phrases, and includes a sense of closure
*Recognize how to plan, revise, edit, rewrite, and try a new approach
Purpose for
writing
Narrative
Topic
Dialogue
Linking words
Conclusion
Revise
Edit
Rewrite
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
Jan. 30Feb. 3
Feb. 13-17
Feb. 21-24
Feb. 27March 3
March
6-9
Prepositions
Fly, Eagle, Fly!: An
African Tale
Language 1.i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Contractions
America’s
Champion
Swimmer:
Gertrude Ederle
Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Singular and Plural
Pronouns
The Man Who
Invented
Basketball
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Subject and
Object Pronouns
Hottest, Coldest,
Highest, Deepest
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Possessive
Pronouns
Rocks in His Head
Language 2.d. Form and use possessives.
Preposition
Targets
*Recognize prepositions.
*Form and use prepositions in complex sentences.
Contraction
Targets
*Identify contractions.
*Form and use contractions in sentences
Targets
*Identify and use singular and plural pronouns.
*Explain the function of singular and plural pronouns in sentences.
Targets
*Identify and use subject and object pronouns in sentences.
*Choose between a subject and an object pronoun.
Targets
*Identify possessive pronouns.
*Form and use possessive pronouns in sentences.
Singular
pronoun
Plural
pronoun
Pronoun
Subject
pronoun
Object
pronoun
Possessive
pronoun
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
March
6-31
Anchor Standard 1
Write arguments to
support claims.
Anchor Standard 6
Use technology to
interact and
collaborate with
others.
Anchor Standard 8
Assess the credibility
and accuracy of
sources.
Anchor Writing
Standard 10; Note on
range and content of
student writing;
Anchor Writing
Standard7-9
Build knowledge on a
subject through
research.
Opinion Writing
Writing 1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with
reasons.
a. Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create
an organizational structure that lists reasons.
b. Provide reasons that support the opinion.
c. Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to
connect opinions and reasons.
d. Provide a concluding statement or section.
Writing 5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and
strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising editing, rewriting, or trying a
new approach.
Writing 6. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and
publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with
others.
Writing 8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print
and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided
categories.
Targets
*Define point-of-view and opinion.
*Select a topic or text for an opinion piece.
*Determine an opinion about the text or topic and reasons that support the
opinion.
*Create an organizational structure for listing reasons for the opinion; select
appropriate linking words and phrases.
*Plan a concluding statement or section.
*Create an opinion piece on a topic or text which:
supports a point of view with reasons
introduces the topic or text
states an opinion
organizes ideas
provides reasons for the opinion
uses linking words to connect opinions and reasons
provides a conclusion
Purpose for
writing
Opinion
Reasons
Point of view
Topic
Linking words
Conclusion
Revise
Edit
Rewrite
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
March
13-17
Adjectives and
Articles
Suki’s Kimono
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Adjective
Article
Targets
*Identify and use adjectives and articles.
*Explain the function of adjectives and articles in sentences.
March
20-24
March
27-31
Comparative and
Superlative
Adjectives
I Love Saturdays y
Domingos
Language 1.g. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs,
and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
Adverbs
Good-Bye, 382
Shin Dang Dong
Language 1.a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs in general and their functions
in particular sentences.
Targets
*Identify comparative and superlative adjectives
*Choose between comparative and superlative adjectives.
*Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and choose between them
depending on what is to be modified
Comparative
adjective
Superlative
adjective
Adverb
Targets
*Explain the function of an adverb in a sentence.
April
10-14
April
17-21
Comparative &
Superlative
Adverbs
Jalapeno Bagels
Conjunctions
Me and Uncle
Romie
Language 1.g. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs,
and choose between them
depending on what is to be modified.
Targets
*Identify comparative and superlative adverbs.
*Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs.
*Choose between comparative and superlative adverbs depending on what is to
be modified.
Language 1.h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Targets
*Recognize coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
*Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Comparative
adverb
Superlative
adverb
Conjunction
2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide - Language Arts Third Grade
April
24-28
Capital Letters
The Story of the
Statue of Liberty
Language 2 Demonstrates command of the conventions of standard English,
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Language 2.a. Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
Targets
*Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
*Capitalize appropriate words in titles, proper nouns, and abbreviations.
Capital letters
Upper case
Lower case