Grade 3 ELA (New York Next Generation)

Reading (Literary and Informational)

• 3R1 Ask and answer questions, finding details that support an answer or inference.
• 3R2 Identify a theme or central idea, explain how key details support it, and summarize.
• 3R3 (RL) Describe characters' traits, motives or feelings using specific details from the story.
• 3R3 (RI) Explain how events, ideas or steps connect, using words about time, sequence and cause and effect.
• 3R4 Work out the meaning of words and phrases, including figurative language and subject words.
• 3R5 (RL) Name parts of stories, dramas and poems, such as chapter, scene and stanza.
• 3R5 (RI) Identify and use text features to build understanding.
• 3R6 Discuss how the reader's point of view may differ from the author's, narrator's or characters'.
• 3R7 Explain how illustrations or text features add to meaning, e.g. mood or setting.
• 3R8 Explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence.
• 3R9 Recognize genres and make connections to other texts, ideas, cultures, eras and personal experience.

Reading Foundations

• 3RF3a Know the meanings of the most common prefixes and suffixes.
• 3RF3b Decode multisyllable words.
• 3RF3c Identify, understand and decode words with suffixes.
• 3RF3d Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
• 3RF4a Read grade-level texts of all genres aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
• 3RF4b Use context to confirm or correct word recognition, rereading as needed.

Writing

• 3W1 Write arguments that support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
• 3W1a Introduce a claim with details and organize reasons and evidence logically.
• 3W1b Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
• 3W1c Use linking words to connect ideas within categories of information.
• 3W1d Give a concluding statement or section.
• 3W2 Write informative/explanatory texts that explore a topic and convey relevant ideas and information.
• 3W2a Introduce a topic and group related information together.
• 3W2b Develop the topic with facts, definitions and details, adding illustrations when useful.
• 3W2c Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
• 3W2d Use linking words to connect ideas within categories of information.
• 3W2e Give a concluding statement or section.
• 3W3 Write narratives using effective technique, descriptive details and a clear sequence of events.
• 3W3a Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.
• 3W3b Describe actions, thoughts and feelings to develop events or show how characters respond.
• 3W3c Use time-order words and phrases to signal the order of events.
• 3W3d Give a conclusion.
• 3W4 Create a response (e.g. poem, artwork) to a text, author, theme or personal experience.
• 3W6 Carry out research to answer questions, including their own, and build knowledge.
• 3W7 Recall or gather information from experience or several sources, take brief notes and sort evidence.

Speaking and Listening

• 3SL1 Take part in collaborative discussions, expressing ideas clearly and building on others' ideas.
• 3SL1a Come prepared, having studied required material, and draw on what is known about the topic.
• 3SL1b Follow agreed rules for discussion: listen actively, take turns and stay on topic.
• 3SL1c Ask questions to check understanding and link comments to the remarks of others.
• 3SL1d Explain their own ideas and understanding in the discussion.
• 3SL1e Consider individual differences when communicating with others.
• 3SL2 Identify central ideas and supporting details of texts and information in different formats.
• 3SL3 Ask and answer questions to evaluate a speaker's point of view, with elaboration and detail.
• 3SL4 Report on a topic, tell a story or recount an experience with facts and details, speaking clearly at a suitable pace.
• 3SL5 Use digital media or visual displays to emphasize particular facts or details.
• 3SL6 Identify when academic English or informal speech is appropriate.

Language

• 3L3 Recognize differences between conversational and academic English and choose language accordingly.
• 3L3a Choose words and phrases for effect.
• 3L3b Recognize and observe differences between spoken and written standard English.
• 3L4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using a range of strategies.
• 3L4a Use sentence-level context as a clue to meaning.
• 3L4b Work out the meaning of a new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word.
• 3L4c Use a known root word as a clue to an unknown word with the same root.
• 3L4d Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries to find precise meanings of key words.
• 3L5 Show understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
• 3L5a Distinguish literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context.
• 3L5b Identify real-life connections between words and their use.
• 3L5c Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty.
• 3L6 Acquire and use conversational, academic and subject words, including those for spatial and time relationships.