Common Core State Standards - Grade 3 English Language Arts - Lang. Arts

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.3 - Reading
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3 - Literature
  - Key Ideas and Details
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 - Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2 - Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 - Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
    - RL.CCR.1 - Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
    - RL.CCR.2 - Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
    - RL.CCR.3 - Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
  - Craft and Structure
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.5 - Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.6 - Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
    - RL.CCR.4 - Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
    - RL.CCR.5 - Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
    - RL.CCR.6 - Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
  - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.7 - Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.8 - (Not applicable to literature)
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.9 - Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
    - RL.CCR.7 - Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
    - RL.CCR.8 - Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
    - RL.CCR.9 - Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
  - Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
    - RL.CCR.10 - Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3 - Informational Text
  - Key Ideas and Details
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1 - Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.2 - Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 - Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
    - RI.CCR.1 - Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
    - RI.CCR.2 - Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
    - RI.CCR.3 - Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
  - Craft and Structure
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.4 - Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 - Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6 - Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
    - RI.CCR.4 - Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
    - RI.CCR.5 - Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
    - RI.CCR.6 - Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
  - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7 - Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.8 - Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.9 - Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
    - RI.CCR.7 - Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
    - RI.CCR.8 - Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
    - RI.CCR.9 - Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
  - Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
    - RI.CCR.10 - Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3 - Foundational Skills
  - Print Concepts
    - This concept is addressed in Kindergarten and Grade 1 only.
  - Phonological Awareness
    - This concept is addressed in Kindergarten and Grade 1 only.
  - Phonics and Word Recognition
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3 - Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3a - Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3b - Decode words with common Latin suffixes.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3c - Decode multisyllable words.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3d - Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
  - Fluency
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4 - Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4a - Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4b - Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
      - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4c - Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3 - Writing
- Text Types and Purposes
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1 - Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1a - Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1b - Provide reasons that support the opinion.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1c - Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1d - Provide a concluding statement or section.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2a - Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2b - Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2c - Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2d - Provide a concluding statement or section.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3a - Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3b - Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3c - Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3d - Provide a sense of closure.
  - W.CCR.1 - Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
  - W.CCR.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
  - W.CCR.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
- Production and Distribution of Writing
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.4 - With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.5 - With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 - With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
  - W.CCR.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
  - W.CCR.5 - Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
  - W.CCR.6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
- Research to Build and Present Knowledge
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.7 - Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.8 - Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.9 - (Begins in grade 4)
  - W.CCR.7 - Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
  - W.CCR.8 - Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
  - W.CCR.9 - Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Range of Writing
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.10 - Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
  - W.CCR.10 - Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3 - Speaking and Listening
- Comprehension and Collaboration
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1 - Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1a - Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1b - Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1c - Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1d - Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.2 - Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.3 - Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
  - SL.CCR.1 - Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
  - SL.CCR.2 - Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  - SL.CCR.3 - Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.4 - Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.5 - Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.6 - Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
  - SL.CCR.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
  - SL.CCR.5 - Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
  - SL.CCR.6 - Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3 - Language
- Conventions of Standard English
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1a - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1b - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1c - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1d - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1e - Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1f - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1h - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1i - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2a - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2b - Use commas in addresses.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2c - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2d - Form and use possessives.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2e - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2f - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2g - Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
  - L.CCR.1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  - L.CCR.2 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Knowledge of Language
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.3 - Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.3a - Choose words and phrases for effect.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.3b - Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
  - L.CCR.3 - Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
- Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4 - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4a - Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4b - Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4c - Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4d - Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5 - Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5a - Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5b - Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
    - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5c - Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
  - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.6 - Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
  - L.CCR.4 - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
  - L.CCR.5 - Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
  - L.CCR.6 - Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.