ELA 3rd Grade Language

Description

• Use knowledge of grade-appropriate roots to decode and predict the meanings of unfamiliar words (e.g., wake and awaken)

• Determine or clarify the precise meanings of key words and phrases by using print or online glossaries or beginning dictionaries

• Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and content-area vocabulary correctly in context, including words that indicate spatial or temporal relationships (e.g., upon, during, beginning)

• Use sentence-level context clues (e.g., embedded word definitions, restatement) to determine or clarify the meanings of general academic and content-area words and phrases