Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Activity | Pages |
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What Is Narrative Writing? | 111-112 |
Remembering Experiences | 113-115 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RL.3.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Activity | Pages |
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What Is Narrative Writing? | 111-112 |
Remembering Experiences | 113-115 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RL.3.5: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Activity | Pages |
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Remembering Experiences | 113-115 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RL.3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Remembering Experiences | 113-115 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RL.3.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Remembering Experiences | 113-115 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Activity | Pages |
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What Is an Opinion Piece? | 26-29 |
A Basic Argument | 30-35 |
Introduce the Topic | 36-38 |
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Introduce Your Topic | 74-77 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.3.2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Activity | Pages |
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Create an Organized Structure | 43-48 |
Support Your Opinion | 49-52 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Writing a Conclusion | 101-103 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.3.5: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Activity | Pages |
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Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.3.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Activity | Pages |
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Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
What Is an Opinion Piece? | 26-29 |
A Basic Argument | 30-35 |
Introduce the Topic | 36-38 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Writing a Conclusion | 101-103 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.3.8: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text(e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Activity | Pages |
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Introduce the Topic | 36-38 |
Create an Organized Structure | 43-48 |
Support Your Opinion | 49-52 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.3.7: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.3.9: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Activity | Pages |
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Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Text Types and Purposes
ELA.W.3.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
What Is an Opinion Piece? | 26-29 |
State an Opinion | 39-42 |
Create an Organized Structure | 43-48 |
Support Your Opinion | 49-52 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Text Types and Purposes
ELA.W.3.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Introduce Your Topic | 74-77 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Writing a Conclusion | 101-103 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Text Types and Purposes
ELA.W.3.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Remembering Experiences | 113-115 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Production and Distribution of Writing
ELA.W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Create an Organized Structure | 43-48 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Introduce Your Topic | 74-77 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
What Is Narrative Writing? | 111-112 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Production and Distribution of Writing
ELA.W.3.6: 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.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Production and Distribution of Writing
ELA.W.3.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3)
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
ELA.W.3.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Introduce Your Topic | 74-77 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
ELA.W.3.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Range of Writing
ELA.W.3.10: 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.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Writing a Conclusion | 101-103 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Comprehension and Collaboration
ELA.SL.3.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
What Is an Opinion Piece? | 26-29 |
Introduce the Topic | 36-38 |
Support Your Opinion | 49-52 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Introduce Your Topic | 74-77 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Writing a Conclusion | 101-103 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
What Is Narrative Writing? | 111-112 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Comprehension and Collaboration
ELA.SL.3.3: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
What Is Narrative Writing? | 111-112 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Comprehension and Collaboration
ELA.SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.SL.3.6: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
What Is Narrative Writing? | 111-112 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.SL.3.4: 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.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.SL.3.5: Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Conventions of Standard English
ELA.L.3.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Knowledge of Language
ELA.L.3.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Create an Organized Structure | 43-48 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Introduce Your Topic | 74-77 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Tell Your Story | 124-125 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
ELA.L.3.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Sample Lesson: The Language of Writing | 17-20 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Gather Information and Take Notes | 69-73 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Write an Explanatory Essay | 107-109 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
ELA.L.3.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Sample Lesson: The Language of Writing | 17-20 |
What Is an Opinion Piece? | 26-29 |
Introduce the Topic | 36-38 |
Examine a Topic | 66-68 |
Develop Your Topic | 78-83 |
Writing an Informative Piece | 84-93 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
ELA.L.3.5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Introduce the Topic | 36-38 |
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Include Illustrations | 94-100 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Ending Your Story | 131-133 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
English Language Arts Standards for Grade 3
ELA.L.3: Language Standards
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
My Own Opinion | 57-61 |
Write an Informative Essay | 104-106 |
Organize Event Sequence | 116-118 |
Descriptive Details | 119-123 |
Characters Respond | 126-130 |
Respond to Reading | 134-138 |
Personal Experience Narrative | 139-140 |
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