CURRICULUM 

Grade 3 Literacy Curriculum Framework

Literature

• Make connections to the text (text to text, text to self, text to world)

• Summarize the text Visualize while I read

• Make predictions while I read

• Ask questions to check for understanding

• Make inferences while reading the text

• Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events

Informational Text

• Make connections to the text (text to text, text to self, text to world)

• Summarize the text

• Visualize while I read

• Make predictions while I read

• Ask questions to check for understanding

• Make inferences while reading the text

• Use what I know and give examples from the text to support an inference

• Explain what happened, when it happened, and why

• Use text features (graphs, captions, charts, pictures and headings)

Foundational Skills

• Decode multi-syllable words

• Read irregularly spelled words

• Use prefixes, suffixes, roots and bases while I read

• Read with expression

Speaking & Listening

• Share my ideas and listen to others

• Clearly present information to my classmates

Writing

• Write an opinion essay with an introduction, supporting reasons and a concluding statement

• Write a narrative essay about real or imagined experiences using descriptive details, a clear sequence of events and dialogue

• Write an informational essay that includes an introduction, facts that develop the topic, linking words and a conclusion with minimal support from the teacher

• Plan, revise and edit my writing

Language

• Can identify and use simple, compound and complex sentences

• Spells words correctly using resources

• Correctly capitalizes and punctuates sentences

• Uses commas correctly in addresses and with quotation marks in dialogue

• Determines the meaning of unknown words using multiple strategies including affixes, root words and context clues