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Language Arts (Updated July 2003)
Language Arts - Grade 3
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Listening, Speaking and Viewing | Reading and Literature | Research | Writing
 

Reading and Literature

PS1: READING COMPREHENSION
The learner will be able to read fluently, understand, and make literal and non-literal connections using different kinds of informational materials and fictional literature.
  
ллл LA.3.1.1 Reading Behaviors: Variety
The learner will be able to read a variety of materials for information and pleasure.
  
ллл LA.3.1.2 Selecting: Purpose/Variety
The learner will be able to read for a variety of purposes in different kinds of text.  
  
ллл LA.3.1.3 Directions: Written/Oral
The learner will be able to show evidence that he/she followed multiple written/oral directions.  
  
ллл LA.3.1.4 Response: Question
The learner will be able to respond to literal inferential, and evaluative questions about literature.  
  
ллл LA.3.1.5 Fluency: Grade Level/Appropriate
The learner will be able to orally read with fluency and expression.
  
ллл LA.3.1.6 Monitor: Use/Self-Monitoring
The learner will be able to read for understanding and reread as needed for clarification, self-correction, and further comprehension.
  
ллл LA.3.1.7 Print Style: Various Fonts
The learner will be able to demonstrate comprehension when reading a variety of literary forms (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama).
  
ллл LA.3.1.8 Main Idea: Explicit
The learner will be able to recognize explicit main idea, details, sequence of events, and cause/effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction.
  
ллл LA.3.1.9 Genre: Recognize
The learner will be able to identify and discuss literary forms (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama).
  
ллл LA.3.1.10 Predictions: Reading Materials
The learner will be able to draw conclusions, make predictions, compare/contrast and make generaliations.  
  
ллл LA.3.1.11 Main Idea: Implicit
The learner will be able to recognize implicit main idea, details, sequence of events, and cause/effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction.
  
ллл LA.3.1.12 Integrate: Language Structures
The learner will be able to integrate language structure(syntax), meaning clues (semantics), phonetic strategies and sight vocabulary when reading orally and silently.
  

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LA.3.1.13 Classic/Traditional
The learner will be able to experience traditional and contemporary literature through a variety of media.
  

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LA.3.1.14 Media: Stereotype/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize cultural diversity represented in literature.
  

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LA.3.1.15 Character: Support/Use/Actions
The learner will be able to identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings.
  

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LA.3.1.16 Characteristics: Realism/Fanta
The learner will be able to discriminate between realism and fantasy.  
  
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The learner will be able to identify the main characters.
  
PS2: VOCABULARY
The learner will be able to use context clues and knowledge of word parts to extend and expand understanding of word meanings and relationships.
  
ллл LA.3.2.1 Strategies: Apply/Variety
The learner will be able to increase vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interest and knowledge.
  
ллл LA.3.2.2 Strategies: Homophones
The learner will be able to use knowledge of homophones, synonyms and antonyms when reading.
  
ллл LA.3.2.3 Functional Text: Prior Knowledge
The learner will be able to activate relevant prior knowledge (schema), context clues and word meanings before, during, and after reading.  
  
ллл LA.3.2.4 Classification: Words/Character
The learner will be able to classify and categorize words into sets and groups with common characteristics.
  
PS3:PHONICS/WORD WORK
The learner will be able to use phonics, syllabication, word parts, and word identification strategies appropriately, automatically and accurately to achieve comprehension and fluent oral and silent reading.
  
ллл LA.3.3.1 Word: Sight Words
The learner will be able to develop grade-level appropriate sight word vocabulary.  
  

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LA.3.3.2 Word Recognition: Proficient/Fl
The learner will be able to use word recognition strategies to acquire new vocabulary (prefixes: re, un, dis; suffixes: er, or, less, ly; affixes, roots, and compounds).
  

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LA.3.3.3 Contraction: Recognize/Use
The learner will be able to recognize and read compounds, contractions, possessives and words ending in ing, ed, s, and es.
  

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LA.3.3.4 Strategies: Word Order
The learner will be able to use word order to read.  
  

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LA.3.3.5 Phonetic Principles
The learner will be able to use short, long, and "r" controlled vowel sounds, word families, rhyming words, consonant blends, digraphs and diphthongs to orally decode words.
  
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Writing

PS4: STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH
The learner will be able to demonstrate a developing control and understanding of Standard American English.
  
ллл LA.3.4.1 Conventions: Punctuation/Identify
The learner will be able to apply correct principals of grammar, parts of speech and usage and mechanics (complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation, word structure, types of sentences, simple subject/[predicate, singular, plural and possessive nouns, subject/verb agreement, simple sentences).
  
ллл LA.3.4.2 Sight Words: Spell Words Correction
The learner will be able to spell frequently used grade-level appropriate (Sitton/Dolch) sight words correctly.  
  
ллл LA.3.4.3 Spelling: Patterns/Apply
The learner will be able to apply common spelling patterns and rules.  
  
PS5: WRITING PROCESS
The learner will be able to plan and write text that develops a central idea for different purposes and audiences using a process approach.
  
ллл LA.3.5.1 Genre: Variety
The learner will be able to write in a variety of genres to include personal narrative, imaginative stories, responses to literature, content area pieces, and correspondence.
  
ллл LA.3.5.2 Writing as a Process: Skills
The learner will be able to communicate ideas by using the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing).
  
ллл LA.3.5.3 Write: Paragraph
The learner will be able to write a short paragraph about a topic.
  
ллл LA.3.5.4 Writing as a Process: Communication
The learner will be able to use examples from literature to create individual and group stories and write about self-selected topics.
  

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LA.3.5.5 Technological Tools: Use
The learner will be able to use current technology to assist in writing.
  

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LA.3.5.6 Handwriting: Words/Legible/Write
The learner will be able to write legibly (handwriting).  
  
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Listening, Speaking and Viewing

PS6: LISTENING
The learner will be able to listen critically in formal and informal situations to respond to information and to expand content knowledge.
  
ллл LA.3.6.1 Detail: Recall
The learner will be able to recall, interpret and summarize orally presented information
  
ллл LA.3.6.2 Vocabulary
The learner will be able to increase vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interest and knowledge.
  
ллл LA.3.6.3 Follow Directions: Multiple/Oral
The learner will be able to follow multiple oral directions.
  
ллл LA.3.6.4 Context Meaning
The learner will be able to determine the meaning of a word based on how it is used in an orally presented sentence.
  

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LA.3.6.5 Behaviors: Active Listening
The learner will be able to respond appropriately to various types of questions on orally presented material.
  

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LA.3.6.6 Strategies: Literature/Culture
The learner will be able to listen to and respond to various literary forms including regional/international examples.
  

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LA.3.6.7 Strategies: Expand
The learner will be able to expand listening, speaking, reading and writing vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.
  
PS7: DELIVER PRESENTATIONS
The learner will be able to speak in a manner that reflects an awareness of audience and guides listeners to understand important ideas.
  
ллл LA.3.7.1 Practices: Descriptive/Detail
The learner will be able to use descriptive language to communicate clearly.
  
ллл LA.3.7.2 Sentence Structure: Complex
The learner will be able to use increasingly complex sentence structures in oral communication.
  
ллл LA.3.7.3 Practices: Progress/Grammar/Eng
The learner will be able to use grade/age appropriate standard American English when communicating orally.
  
ллл LA.3.7.4 Formal: Presentation
The learner will be able to use oral language for different purposes, to inform, to persuade and to entertain.
  

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LA.3.7.5 Interpersonal: One-To-One/Peer
The learner will be able to follow rules of conversation with peers.
  
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The learner will be able to divide words into syllables.
  
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Research

PS8: RESEARCH AND PUBLISH
The learner will be able to generate questions, gather information, identify sources and report results.
  
ллл LA.3.8.1 Media Center: Study/Research
The learner will be able to use media center to access a variety of materials.
  
ллл LA.3.8.2 Skim: Material/Information
The learner will be able to skim materials for information.
  
ллл LA.3.8.3 Book Parts: Use
The learner will be able to use book parts as information sources.
  

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LA.3.8.4 Alphabetizing: Words
The learner will be able to alphabetize words to the third letter.
  

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LA.3.8.5 Dictionary: Guide Words
The learner will be able to use guide words as location aids in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
  

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LA.3.8.6 Dictionary: Entry/Spelling
The learner will be able to identify the spelling of a word from a dictionary entry  
  

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LA.3.8.7 Organization: Nonfiction/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize the organization of fiction and nonfiction books in the media center.
  
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