Standards

ELA3R2 The student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively. The student

a. Reads literary and informational texts and incorporates new words into oral and written language.
b. Uses grade-appropriate words with multiple meanings.
f. Determines the meaning of unknown words on the basis of context.

ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student

a. Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure.

h. Interprets information from illustrations, diagrams, charts, graphs, and graphic organizers.
i. Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences.

ELA3W2 The student writes in a variety of genres, including narrative, informational, persuasive, and response to literature.  

The student produces informational writing (e.g., procedures, report, correspondence) that:
a. Captures a reader?s interest by setting a purpose and developing a point of view.
b. Sustains a focused topic.
c. Includes the appropriate purpose, expectations, and length for the audience and the genre.
d. Includes relevant examples, facts, anecdotes, and details.
e. Uses organizational structures for conveying information (chronological order, cause and effect, similarities and differences, questions and answers).
f. Uses a variety of resources (encyclopedia, Internet, books) to research and share information on a topic.
g. Provides a sense of closure.
h. May include prewriting.
i. May include a draft that is revised and edited.
j. May be published.

The student produces a response to literature that:
a. Captures a reader?s interest by developing a point of view.
b. Demonstrates understanding of the text, formulates an opinion, and supports a judgment.
c. Makes connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world connections using significant details from the reading selection.
d. Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (T-charts, compare and contrast, letter to author, rewrite the ending, beginning, middle, and end with details from the text).
e. Provides a sense of closure.
f. May include pre-writing.
g. May include a draft that is revised and edited.
h. May be published.