Download Grade 3 Language Standards : Conventions of Standard English

 Grade 3 Language Standards : Conventions of Standard English
Essential Questions:
1. Why is it important to have command of Standard English conventions?
2. How do I determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word or usage?
3. How do words and their use influence language?
4. How does the depth of your vocabulary contribute to your ability to read, write, listen, and speak more effectively?
Essential Vocabulary: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, regular and irregular verbs and nouns, abstract nouns, simple verb tense, subjectverb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, comparative adjective, superlative adjective, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating
conjunctions, simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, commas, quotation marks, dialogue, possessives, suffixes, reference
materials.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 1 for Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
L.3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
b. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
c. Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
d. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
e. Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
f. Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
g. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
i. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Grade 3 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• explain the function of
• that language conventions
Students will…
nouns, pronouns, verbs,
and grammar are essential
• noun
adjectives, and adverbs.
in effective
• use collective nouns in
• pronoun
communication.
writing and speaking (i.e.
• clarify how nouns,
• verb
science, “solids, liquids,
pronouns, verbs, adjectives,
• that skills related to
• adjective
gases, insects, weather…”)
and adverbs function in
conventions are
• adverb
particular sentence.
interrelated
with
reading,
• correctly form and use
• regular and irregular verbs
writing, speaking,
irregular plural nouns in
• construct and apply regular
and nouns
listening,
and
viewing.
writing and speaking.
and irregular plural nouns.
• abstract nouns
• identify and use reflexive
• use abstract nouns (nouns
• simple verb tense
pronouns in writing and
which cannot be detected
• subject-verb agreement
speaking.
by your senses).
• pronoun-antecedent
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correctly form and use the
past tense of irregular verbs
while speaking and
writing.
use adjectives and adverbs,
and choose between them
depending on what is to be
modified.
create, expand, and
rearrange complete simple
and compound
sentences(e.g. The boy
watched the movie. The
little boy watched the
movie. The action movie
was watched by the little
boy.).
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agreement
comparative adjective
superlative adjective
coordinating conjunctions
subordinating conjunctions
simple sentence
compound sentence
complex sentence
imperative sentences
exclamatory sentences
declarative sentences
Interrogative sentences
multi-meaning words
(homophones)
context clues
run-on sentences
abbreviations
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 construct and apply regular
and irregular verbs.
construct and apply the use
of simple tenses (past,
present, and future tenses).
create sentences with
subject-verb and pronounantecedent agreement.
construct and apply
comparative and
superlative adjectives and
adverbs.
choose between
comparative and
superlative adjectives and
adverbs appropriately
depending on what is to be
modified.
apply coordinating and
subordinating
conjunctions.
produce simple,
compound, and complex
sentences.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 2 for Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.3.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
a. Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
b. Use commas in addresses.
c. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
d. Form and use possessives.
e. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries,
happiness).
f. Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word
parts) in writing words.
g. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
Grade 3 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• capitalize appropriate
• that appropriate grammar
Students will…
words in titles.
and usage of formal
• commas
English is important in
• recognize proper nouns
• use commas in addresses.
• quotation marks
written and spoken
and construct proper nouns
• use commas and quotation
• dialogue
language
to
convey
with appropriate
marks in dialogue.
• possessives
meaning.
capitalization.
• construct and apply
• suffixes
•
that
reference
tools
can
aid
• identify spelling patterns
possessives.
• reference materials
in
spelling
and
and apply them when
• use conventional spelling
conventions.
writing.
for high-frequency words.
• consult reference materials
• add suffixes to base words
to check and correct
to spell them correctly.
spelling (i.e. spelling
• utilize reference material
dictionaries, thesaurus,
(e.g. beginning dictionary)
beginning dictionaries).
to check and correct
• formulate sentences using
spelling.
commas in greetings and
closings of letters.
• create contractions and
frequently occurring
possessives using
apostrophes.
(Reference to R.F. 3.3)
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Grade 3 Language Standards : Knowledge of Language
Essential Questions:
1. Why is it important to have command of standard English conventions?
2. How do I determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word or usage?
3. How do words and their use influence language?
4. How does the depth of your vocabulary contribute to your ability to read, write, listen, and speak more effectively?
Essential Vocabulary: conventions, standard English
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 3 for Language: 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.
L.3.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
a. Choose words and phrases for effect.
b. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
Grade 3 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will know…
Students will understand…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• choose words and phrases
• that language can function
Students will…
to enhance and convey an
in different contexts and
• conventions
intended meaning.
for different purposes.
• compare formal and
• standard English
informal uses of English.
• recognize the differences
• that making effective
between spoken and
choices for meaning or
• recognize when to use
written standard English
style enhances what they
formal and informal
and apply that knowledge
write, speak, read, or hear.
English..
when they write, speak,
read, and listen.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Grade 3 Language Standards : Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Essential Questions:
1. Why is it important to have command of standard English conventions?
2. How do I determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word or usage?
3. How do words and their use influence language?
4. How does the depth of your vocabulary contribute to your ability to read, write, listen, and speak more effectively?
Essential Vocabulary: affix, literal, nonliteral, shades of meaning, temporal, spatial
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 4 for Language: 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.3.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing
flexibly from a range of strategies.
a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
b. 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).
c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g. company, companion)
d. Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
Grade 3 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• utilize context to clarify the
• that using prior knowledge
Students will…
meaning of unknown
of words and affixes helps
• affix
words.
them understand new
• use context clues to
unknown words.
determine the meaning of
• analyze the meaning of a
unknown words or
word when a known affix
• that consulting reference
phrases.
is added to a known word.
materials helps to identify
unknown words and their
• use known word parts
• infer the meaning of an
meanings.
(affixes, root words,
unknown word when using
compound words) to
a known root word as a
determine or predict the
clue.
meaning of an unknown
• consult print and digital
word.
glossaries (beginning
• use print and digital
dictionaries) to clarify the
resources to determine or
precise meaning of key
clarify the meaning of
words and phrases.
unknown words and
phrases.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 5 for Language: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and
nuances in word meanings.
L.3.5 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
a. Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meaning of words and phrases in contexts (e.g. takes steps).
b. Identify real life connections between words and their use (e.g. describe people who are friendly or helpful).
c. Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describes states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g. knew, believed, suspected,
heard, wondered).
Grade 3 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• distinguish the literal and
• that the use of figurative
Students will…
nonliteral meaning of word
and non-literal language
• literal
and phrase in context.
can enhance the meaning.
• be able to make real-life
• nonliteral
connections between words
• create real-life connections
• that through learning new
• shades of meaning
and their use (e.g. describe
between words and their
words and word
foods that are spicy or
use.
relationships, their
juicy).
vocabulary will expand.
• apply shades of meaning
• be able to distinguish
among related words that
• that a richer vocabulary
shades of meaning among
describe states of mind or
enhances your ability to
closely related verbs (e.g.
certainty.
write, speak, listen, and
toss, throw, hurl).
read.
• be able to distinguish
among closely related
adjectives (e.g. thin,
slender, skinny, scrawny).
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 6 for Language: 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.
L.3.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those
that signal special and temporal relationships (e.g. After dinner that night, we went looking for them.)
Grade 3 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• acquire and utilize various
• that different forms of
Students will…
forms of communication
communication are
• temporal
(grade-appropriate, general
appropriate in different
• use words acquired
• spatial
academic, and domainsettings.
through reading, talking or
specific).
listening.
• communicate through
• use adjectives and adverbs
words and phrases
to respond to texts .
including those that signal
spatial and temporal
relationships.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013