3rd Grade ELA (Ohio's Learning Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to show understanding, referring directly to the text.
• RL.3.2 Analyze how a text develops by finding a theme and retelling tales from diverse cultures.
  • a. Identify a theme and how key details convey it.
  • b. Retell traditional tales from diverse cultures.
• RL.3.3 Describe characters' traits and motivations and how their actions affect events.
• RL.3.4 Work out the meaning of words and phrases, telling literal from nonliteral language.
• RL.3.5 Use terms such as chapter, scene and stanza and describe how parts build on earlier parts.
• RL.3.6 Distinguish points of view, especially first- and third-person narration.
• RL.3.7 Explain how illustrations add to the words of a story, e.g. by stressing characters.
• RL.3.9 Compare themes, settings and plots of stories by the same author about the same characters.
• RL.3.10 By year's end, read and understand grades 2–3 literature independently.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.3.1 Answer questions referring directly to the text as evidence.
• RI.3.2 Analyze how a text develops its main idea through key details.
  • a. Identify the main idea.
  • b. Retell key details and how they support it.
• RI.3.3 Describe how historical events, science ideas or technical steps relate, using time and cause words.
• RI.3.4 Work out general academic and subject-specific words in grade 3 topics.
• RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools such as keywords, sidebars and links to find information.
• RI.3.6 Tell one's own point of view apart from the author's.
• RI.3.7 Use maps, photos and words to show understanding of where, when and how events happen.
• RI.3.8 Describe how an author's evidence connects to points throughout a text.
• RI.3.9 Compare the most important points and details in two texts on the same topic.
• RI.3.10 By year's end, read grades 2–3 informational texts independently at the high end.

Reading Foundations (RF)

• RF.3.3 Use grade 3 phonics and word analysis skills to decode words.
  • a. Know meanings of common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
  • b. Decode words with common Latin suffixes.
  • c. Decode multisyllable words.
  • d. Read grade 3 irregular words.
• RF.3.4 Read with enough accuracy and fluency to support understanding.
  • a. Read grade 3 text with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read prose and poetry aloud accurately, smoothly, with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct words, rereading as needed.

Writing (W)

• W.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state the opinion and organize reasons.
  • b. Give reasons that support the opinion.
  • c. Link opinion and reasons with words such as therefore.
  • d. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.3.2 Write informative texts that examine a topic and convey ideas clearly.
  • a. Introduce the topic and group related information.
  • b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions and details.
  • c. Link ideas within categories.
  • d. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.3.3 Write real or imagined narratives using effective technique, details and clear sequence.
  • a. Establish situation, narrator or characters and a natural order.
  • b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts and feelings.
  • c. Use time words to signal order.
  • d. Give a sense of closure.
• W.3.4 With adult support, produce writing whose development and organization suit task and purpose.
• W.3.5 With support, develop and strengthen writing by planning, revising and editing.
• W.3.6 With adult support, use technology to produce and publish writing and collaborate.
• W.3.7 Do short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
• W.3.8 Recall information or gather it from sources, take brief notes and sort evidence.
• W.3.10 Write routinely over short and extended time frames for a range of tasks and audiences.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.3.1 Take part in a range of discussions on grade 3 topics, building on others' ideas.
  • a. Come prepared, having read the required material.
  • b. Follow agreed rules for discussion.
  • c. Ask questions to check understanding and stay on topic.
  • d. Explain own ideas in light of the discussion.
• SL.3.2 Find the main ideas and supporting details of texts read aloud or other media.
• SL.3.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's information, adding detail.
• SL.3.4 Report on a topic or tell a story with facts and details, speaking clearly at a good pace.
• SL.3.5 Make engaging audio recordings of stories or poems and add visuals to stress facts.
• SL.3.6 Speak in complete sentences suited to the task to give detail or clarification.

Language (L)

• L.3.1 Use standard grammar and usage when speaking and writing.
  • a. Explain the function of parts of speech.
  • b. Form regular and irregular plural nouns.
  • c. Use abstract nouns.
  • d. Form regular and irregular verbs.
  • e. Use simple verb tenses.
  • f. Ensure subject–verb and pronoun–antecedent agreement.
  • g. Form and use comparatives and superlatives.
  • h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
  • i. Produce simple, compound and complex sentences.
• L.3.2 Capitalize titles, use commas and quotation marks in dialogue and form possessives.
• L.3.3 Choose words for effect and notice differences between spoken and written English.
• L.3.4 Use context, affixes, root words and references to clarify word meanings.
• L.3.5 Tell literal from nonliteral meanings and shades of meaning for mental states.
• L.3.6 Use accurate conversational, academic and subject words, including words for time and space.