3rd Grade ELA (Mississippi CCR Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions, referring to the text as the basis for answers.
• RL.3.2 Retell stories, including myths from many cultures, and explain their message or lesson.
• RL.3.3 Describe characters and explain how their actions drive events.
• RL.3.4 Work out word meanings, telling literal from nonliteral language.
• RL.3.5 Name parts of stories, dramas, and poems and how each builds on earlier parts.
• RL.3.6 Tell own point of view apart from the narrator's or characters'.
• RL.3.7 Explain how illustrations add to what a story's words convey.
• RL.3.8 (Not applicable to literature.)
• RL.3.9 Compare themes, settings, and plots of stories by the same author.
• RL.3.10 Read literature at the top of the grade 2–3 band on their own.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions, referring to the text as the basis for answers.
• RI.3.2 Find the main idea and explain how key details support it.
• RI.3.3 Describe how events, ideas, or steps relate using time, sequence, and cause and effect.
• RI.3.4 Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words.
• RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools to find information quickly.
• RI.3.6 Tell own point of view apart from the author's.
• RI.3.7 Use images and words together to understand a text.
• RI.3.8 Describe how sentences and paragraphs connect logically.
• RI.3.9 Compare key points and details of two texts on the same topic.
• RI.3.10 Read informational texts at the top of the grade 2–3 band on their own.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.3.1 (Not applicable in grade 3.)
• RF.3.2 (Not applicable in grade 3.)
• RF.3.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode words.
  • a. Know the meanings of common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
  • b. Decode words with common Latin suffixes.
  • c. Decode words with several syllables.
  • d. Read irregularly spelled words suited to grade 3.
• RF.3.4 Read accurately and fluently enough to support understanding.
  • a. Read grade-level text with a purpose and understand it.
  • b. Read grade-level prose and poetry aloud with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading.

Writing (W)

• W.3.1 Write opinion pieces that support a point of view with reasons.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state an opinion, and organize the reasons.
  • b. Give reasons that support the opinion.
  • c. Link the opinion and reasons with linking words.
  • d. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.3.2 Write informative texts that examine a topic and give information clearly.
  • a. Introduce the topic, group related information, and add illustrations.
  • b. Build the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
  • c. Link ideas within categories with linking words.
  • d. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.3.3 Write narratives with technique, descriptive details, and clear order.
  • a. Set up the situation, introduce a narrator or characters, and order events naturally.
  • b. Use dialogue and description to show actions, thoughts, and feelings.
  • c. Use time words to show the order of events.
  • d. Give a sense of closure.
• W.3.4 With help, write with development and organization suited to the task.
• W.3.5 With help, plan, revise, and edit writing.
• W.3.6 With help, use technology and keyboarding to publish and work with others.
• W.3.7 Do short research projects to learn more about a topic.
• W.3.8 Gather information from sources, take brief notes, and sort evidence into categories.
• W.3.9 (Begins in grade 4) Drawing evidence from texts for research.
• W.3.10 Write routinely over short and longer time frames.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.3.1 Take part well in different discussions, prepared and building on others' ideas.
  • a. Come to discussions prepared, drawing on reading and other information.
  • b. Follow agreed rules such as gaining the floor respectfully.
  • c. Ask questions, stay on topic, and link comments to others' remarks.
  • d. Explain own ideas in light of the discussion.
• SL.3.2 Find the main ideas and details of a text read aloud or other media.
• SL.3.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's words, giving detail.
• SL.3.4 Report on a topic or tell a story clearly with relevant details.
• SL.3.5 Make fluent audio recordings of stories and add helpful visuals.
• SL.3.6 Speak in complete sentences when the situation calls for it.

Language (L)

• L.3.1 Use standard English grammar and usage.
  • a. Explain what nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs do.
  • b. Make and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
  • c. Use abstract nouns.
  • d. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
  • e. Form and use the simple verb tenses.
  • f. Make subjects agree with verbs and pronouns with antecedents.
  • g. Form and choose between comparative and superlative forms.
  • h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
  • i. Write simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• L.3.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • a. Capitalize the right words in titles.
  • b. Use commas in addresses.
  • c. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
  • d. Form and use possessives.
  • e. Spell high-frequency words and words with suffixes correctly.
  • f. Use spelling patterns and rules about word parts.
  • g. Use reference materials to check spelling.
• L.3.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
  • a. Choose words and phrases for effect.
  • b. Recognize how spoken and written English differ.
• L.3.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words with a range of strategies.
  • a. Use sentence context as a clue to meaning.
  • b. Work out the meaning of a word made by adding a known affix.
  • c. Use a known root to understand an unknown word with the same root.
  • d. Use glossaries or dictionaries to find exact meanings.
• L.3.5 Understand figurative language, word relationships, and shades of meaning (the official text letters the parts c, d, e).
  • c. Tell literal and nonliteral meanings apart in context.
  • d. Link words to real-life uses, such as describing helpful people.
  • e. Tell apart shades of meaning in words for states of mind.
• L.3.6 Use grade-level words, including words that show space and time.