3rd grade Instructional Guide

I-CANyons Report Card Standards Third Grade ELA SPEAKING & LISTENING ● Participate efectively in discussions ● Ask and answer questions clearly ● Use correct grammar, volume and pronunciation when speaking and presenting READING ● Demonstrate phonological awareness skills ● Demonstrate phonics skills in reading and spelling ● Read accurately and fuently to support comprehension within the 450-790 Lexile band ● Use text evidence to ask and answer questions ● Identify and retell main idea using key details ● Describe and explain character actions, sequence, events and their relationships ● Determine meanings of similes, metaphors and content words ● Use morphology, context, or other strategies to determine or clarify the meaning of multiple meaning words ● Identify, discuss and use text structure for comprehension ● Explain how story elements, illustrations or text features contribute to understanding text ● Explain how reasons and evidence support claims in informational text ● Compare story elements about the same character or important points from two informational texts

WRITING

● Write argument pieces ● Write informational pieces ● Write narrative pieces ● Conduct research ● Write manuscript and cursive legibly

Updated 5.31.24