Language Arts - Third Grade

Reading

Decoding including Phonics and structural Analysis
Students will use familiar syllables and word patterns to construct new words.
Students will dissect unfamiliar words using familiar word parts as context clues for pronunciation and meaning.
Students will recognize homophones and homographs.

Students will read a variety of literature at grade level text with accuracy and expression, adjusting for type and difficulty of text.

Students will predict, ask, and answer questions utilizing prior knowledge and preview.
Students will make inferences and draw conclusions from text.
Students will analyze the problem and solution in a story or short novel.
Students will retell a selection including character, setting, and main idea.
Students will design and employ graphic organizers for delving deeply into the meaning of a literary work.
Students will distinguish fact from opinion.
Students will identify the narrator of a poem, play, or non-fiction literature.
Students will make connections from literature to real world experiences before, during and after reading.

Students will identify and explain examples of sensory details.
Students will compare and contrast literary elements of fiction.
Students will identify and use alliteration in writing.
Students will analyze the call stories of the prophet Samuel and the apostles according to Matthew’s gospel, comparing those experiences with their own experiences of being called.

Students will read from a variety of genres and develop an interest, even a passion, for a particular genre or author.
Students will analyze the difference between fantasy and reality in literary writing.
Students will read traditional fairy tales from a variety of cultures, eventually composing their own fairy tales.
Students will read from the Bible noting especially the differences between the Old and New Testament.

Students will utilize teacher feedback to clarify ideas, vary vocabulary, and improve their use of writing conventions.

Students will identify declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative sentences using correct ending punctuation.
Students will capitalize the titles of individuals, as well as abbreviated titles.
Students will capitalize names of streets, avenues, and roads, as well as the directions from a compass.
Students will capitalize the names of countries, continents and oceans.
Students will use commas in a series, in a compound sentence and between the name of a city and state and with dates.
Students will use commas in a friendly letter.
Students will use the apostrophe in the singular possessive and contractions with teacher assistance.
Students will construct compound sentences using accurate subject –verb agreement and coordinating conjunctions.
Students will identify and use subject and object pronouns and adverbs in written and verbal language.

Students will compose paragraphs using the 5 sentence model with a main idea, three fact-based details, and a concluding sentence.
Students will compose narrative, descriptive and expository writing.
Students will identify appropriate settings for and compose friendly letters and diary and journal entries.
Students will accurately address all parts of an envelope for mailing purposes.
Students will publish their own compositions using a word-processing program.

Students will accurately use affixes when deconstructing and constructing new words.
Students will demonstrate that when adding a prefix to a word to change its meaning the spelling of the root or base word remains the same.
Students will demonstrate that when adding a suffix to a word ending in y preceded by a consonant the y is usually changed to i before ed, ing.
Students will double l, f, s at the end of one syllable words and some two syllable words.
Students will correctly use the c-v-c spelling rule that defines when adding ed, ing double the final consonant.
Students will recite and use the spelling rule that states i before e except after c unless it says a as in neighbor and weigh.
Students will develop increased vocabulary for reading, speaking and writing by using synonyms and antonyms.
Students will select correct meaning and use multi-meaning words accurately.
Students will accurately spell teacher-selected homophones and homographs.

Students will exhibit affective expression during presentations.
Students will give clear oral directions to complete a two step task.
Students will demonstrate increased vocabulary in conversations and class discussions.
Students will summarize verbally and in writing following an oral presentation.

Students will read and respond independently to a previously unseen text.
Students will select and use appropriate learning strategy to retain new material to be evidenced in a testing format
Students will use a dictionary for word origin and syllabication.
Students will alphabetize to a third letter and beyond.
Students will gather facts for a short, multi-paragraphed informative essay and oral presentation.
Students will use teacher-approved search engines to locate web sources.
Students will navigate teacher-approved websites to search for relevant information.
Students will acknowledge sources used for information and data gathering by listing essential bibliographic information with teacher assistance.
Students will use reliable sources to gather information and re-create the stories of St. Charles Lwanga and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

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