3rd Grade ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

• 3.1.L.1 Listens actively and follows agreed rules for discussion.
• 3.1.L.2 Interprets a speaker's message and asks questions about its purpose.
• 3.1.S.1 Works respectfully in diverse groups and shares responsibility fairly.
• 3.1.S.2 Discusses reading and writing and states own ideas clearly.
• 3.1.S.3 Reports on a topic or tells a story with facts, details, and clear speech.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations and Process

• 3.2.PA Adds, removes, swaps, and reverses sounds in spoken words.
• 3.2.PC Writes printed and cursive words with correct spacing.
• 3.2.PWS.1 Decodes longer words using diphthongs and syllable types.
• 3.2.PWS.2 Decodes words using contractions, roots, affixes, and morphology.
• 3.2.PWS.3 Combines decoding with meaning from context to read new words.
• 3.2.SE.1 Spells diphthongs, schwa, silent letters, and soft and hard c and g.
• 3.2.SE.2 Spells vowel teams and consonant-le syllables correctly.
• 3.2.SE.3 Spells words correctly when adding common prefixes and suffixes.
• 3.2.F.1 Reads sight words accurately and automatically in text.
• 3.2.F.2 Reads grade-level text smoothly and with expression to support understanding.
• 3.2.R.1 Identifies the main idea of a text and the details that support it.
• 3.2.R.2 Recognizes features of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
• 3.2.R.3 Summarizes the key events of a story in order.
• 3.2.R.4 Summarizes facts and details from informational texts.
• 3.2.W.1 Plans and drafts organized narrative, informative, and opinion writing in paragraphs.
• 3.2.W.2 Revises drafts for clarity, flow, organization, and transitions.
• 3.2.W.3 Edits drafts for punctuation, capital letters, and spelling.
• 3.2.W.4 Publishes final drafts for a real audience.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

• 3.3.R.1 Decides whether an author aims to entertain, inform, or persuade.
• 3.3.R.2 Tells whether a literary text is in first or third person.
• 3.3.R.3 Finds examples of setting, plot, characters, and characterization.
• 3.3.R.4 Finds examples of personification, hyperbole, simile, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
• 3.3.R.5 Answers inference questions using evidence from the text.
• 3.3.R.6 Tells facts apart from opinions in informational texts.
• 3.3.R.7 Describes informational text structures such as problem and solution, description, and sequence.
• 3.3.W.1 Writes stories with setting, plot, characters, and characterization.
• 3.3.W.2 Writes informational pieces of several paragraphs with main ideas and transitions.
• 3.3.W.3 Writes opinion pieces of several paragraphs backed by evidence and transitions.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

• 3.4.R.1 Identifies synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs.
• 3.4.R.2 Uses context clues to clarify word meanings.
• 3.4.R.3 Uses word parts to work out the meanings of new words.
• 3.4.R.4 Uses dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses to understand words.
• 3.4.R.5 Learns new words, links them to prior knowledge, and uses them.
• 3.4.W.1 Uses grade-level vocabulary to express ideas clearly in writing.
• 3.4.W.2 Chooses precise words that suit the type of writing and the audience.

Standard 5: Language

• 3.5.R.1 Recognizes simple and compound sentences.
• 3.5.R.2 Identifies parts of speech, subjects, predicates, and phrases in sentences.
• 3.5.W.1 Writes different kinds of sentences and avoids or fixes fragments.
• 3.5.W.2 Uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and adverbs to vary writing.
• 3.5.W.3 Capitalizes and punctuates titles, titles of respect, and place names.
• 3.5.W.4 Uses end punctuation that fits each kind of sentence.
• 3.5.W.5 Uses apostrophes in harder contractions and in possessives.
• 3.5.W.6 Uses commas before coordinating conjunctions and in lists.
• 3.5.W.7 Uses a colon when writing the time.
• 3.5.W.8 Uses quotation marks to show dialogue.

Standard 6: Research

• 3.6.R.1 Researches questions, including own questions, to build knowledge.
• 3.6.R.2 Uses text features to understand informational texts.
• 3.6.R.3 Judges whether information found is relevant.
• 3.6.W.1 Picks a topic and writes several research questions.
• 3.6.W.2 Organizes research notes with a simple citation style.
• 3.6.W.3 Writes short informational texts from one source.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

• 3.7.R Compares points of view across different multimodal content.
• 3.7.W Combines writing with sound, images, layout, or movement.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

• 3.8.R Reads self-chosen texts on their own for different lengths of time.
• 3.8.W Writes on their own in print, cursive, or typing for different purposes.