3rd Grade ELA (Oregon Common Core)

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• ELA.3.RF.1 No new grade 3 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with print concepts.
• ELA.3.RF.2 No new grade 3 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with sound awareness.
• ELA.3.RF.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to read and spell words.
  • a. Recognize, read and know the meanings of common prefixes and derivational suffixes, including Latin suffixes.
  • b. Read and spell multi-syllable words.
  • c. Read irregularly spelled words.
• ELA.3.RF.4 Read grade-level text fluently, with accuracy, good pace and natural expression (prosody), to support understanding.
  • a. Read with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
  • c. Use the context to check or self-correct their reading of words, rereading as needed.

Reading Literature (RL)

• ELA.3.RL.1 Ask and answer questions about a story, pointing to the text as evidence.
• ELA.3.RL.2 Summarize stories, including fables, folktales and myths from many cultures, and explain the central message and supporting details.
• ELA.3.RL.3 Describe characters' traits, motives, actions and feelings and how they affect the plot.
• ELA.3.RL.4 Work out the meaning of words and phrases, telling literal from non-literal language such as idioms and exaggeration.
• ELA.3.RL.5 Explain how parts such as chapters, scenes and stanzas, and story structures, build the whole text.
• ELA.3.RL.6 Tell their own viewpoint apart from the narrator's or a character's and explain how viewpoints shape the text.
• ELA.3.RL.7 Explain how illustrations create effects such as mood, character and setting.
• ELA.3.RL.9 Compare the messages, settings and plots of stories by one author about similar characters.
• ELA.3.RL.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly to read and analyze complex literature on their own.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• ELA.3.RI.1 Ask and answer questions about an informational text, pointing to the text as evidence.
• ELA.3.RI.2 Find the main idea and explain how key details support it.
• ELA.3.RI.3 Describe links between people, events, ideas or steps using words for time, sequence and cause and effect.
• ELA.3.RI.4 Work out the meaning of academic and subject words in a text and how they affect meaning.
• ELA.3.RI.5 Use comparison, cause-and-effect and problem-solution structures and explain how sentences and paragraphs connect.
• ELA.3.RI.6 Tell their own viewpoint apart from the author's and explain how viewpoints shape the text.
• ELA.3.RI.7 Explain how visuals such as diagrams, graphs, photos and sidebars add meaning and clarity.
• ELA.3.RI.8 Describe how reasons and evidence back up an author's particular points.
• ELA.3.RI.9 Compare key points and details in two or more texts on one topic.
• ELA.3.RI.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly to read and analyze complex informational texts on their own.

Writing (W)

• ELA.3.W.1 With scaffolding, write opinion pieces on topics or texts backed by reasons.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state the opinion and set up an organizing structure.
  • b. Give reasons with well-developed details for the opinion.
  • c. Use suitable linking words to build structure across paragraphs.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.3.W.2 With scaffolding, write informative or explanatory texts that examine a topic and give information.
  • a. Introduce a topic, group related information and add helpful illustrations.
  • b. Build up the topic using facts, definitions and details.
  • c. Use suitable joining words to build structure inside sentences.
  • d. Use suitable linking words to build structure across paragraphs.
  • e. Give an ending.
• ELA.3.W.3 With scaffolding, write narratives with techniques, descriptive details and a clear order of events.
  • a. Set the scene, introduce a narrator or characters and organize a sequence of events.
  • b. Develop events through dialogue and by describing actions, thoughts and feelings.
  • c. Use time words and phrases to show the order of events.
  • d. Give an ending that follows from the events.
• ELA.3.W.4 With guidance, produce writing whose development and organization suit the task and purpose.
• ELA.3.W.5 With guidance, develop and improve writing by planning, drafting, revising and editing.
• ELA.3.W.6 With scaffolding, use digital tools and handwriting to produce, publish and work on writing with others.
• ELA.3.W.7 Carry out short research projects and write about them to build knowledge.
• ELA.3.W.8 Summarize information from experience or sources, take brief notes and sort them into categories.
• ELA.3.W.10 With scaffolding, write regularly over short and long time frames for different tasks, purposes and audiences.

Language (L)

• ELA.3.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage correctly in writing and speech.
  • a. Explain what nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs do in grade-level text.
  • b. Make and use plurals, both regular and irregular.
  • c. Use abstract nouns.
  • d. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
  • e. Use verb tenses.
  • f. Make subjects agree with verbs and pronouns with the nouns they refer to.
  • g. Form and choose comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs correctly.
  • h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
  • i. Write simple, compound and complex sentences.
• ELA.3.L.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Capitalize the right words in titles.
  • b. Use commas in addresses.
  • c. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
  • d. Use possessives.
  • e. Spell common base words correctly when adding suffixes.
  • f. Use spelling patterns and rules when writing words.
  • g. Check and fix spelling with print and digital references.
• ELA.3.L.3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
  • a. Choose words and phrases for effect.
  • b. Notice and follow differences between spoken and written standard English.
• ELA.3.L.4 Use strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
  • a. Use the sentence as a clue to a word's meaning.
  • b. Work out a new word made by adding a known affix to a known word.
  • c. Use a known root to work out an unknown word with the same root.
  • d. Use glossaries, beginner dictionaries and references to check key word meanings.
• ELA.3.L.5 Show understanding of how words relate and differ slightly in meaning.
  • a. Tell the dictionary meaning (denotation) of words from their associations (connotation) in context.
  • b. Link words with their synonyms and antonyms.
  • c. Tell apart related words that show different degrees of certainty.
• ELA.3.L.6 Learn and use correctly everyday, academic and subject words and phrases suited to grade 3.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• ELA.3.SL.1 Take part well in group discussions with varied partners, building on others' ideas.
  • a. With guidance, come ready, having read or studied the material, and use that preparation.
  • b. Follow agreed rules for discussion.
  • c. Ask questions to check they understand, keep to the topic and connect what they say to what others said.
  • d. Explain their ideas and understanding, taking account of what was discussed.
  • e. Judge how well the discussion went.
• ELA.3.SL.2 Find the main ideas and supporting details in a read-aloud or in information from different media.
• ELA.3.SL.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's information, adding detail and explanation.
• ELA.3.SL.4 With scaffolding, report on a topic, tell a story or describe an experience with facts and descriptive details.
• ELA.3.SL.5 Make engaging audio recordings of stories or poems read smoothly and add visuals when they help.
• ELA.3.SL.6 Speak in complete sentences when it suits the situation, to give requested detail or clarification.