What does 3rd grade writing look like?

What it's all about...

• Core Knowledge Language Arts Program
  The Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) Program includes two strands of instruction, and these strands correspond with the elements of reading isolated in the simple view of reading. The Skills Strand is meant to build students’ decoding skills, while the Listening and Learning Strand is meant to build students’ language comprehension ability by exposing them to vocabulary, concepts, and ideas through frequent reading aloud.
  Skills Strand
  The Skills Strand teaches the mechanics of reading–students are taught systematic and explicit phonics instruction as their primary tool for decoding written English. By the end of grade 2, students have learned all of the sound‐spelling correspondences in the English language and are able to decode written material they encounter. In addition to phonics, students also are taught spelling, grammar, and writing during the Skills Strand.
  Listening and Learning Strand
  The Listening and Learning Strand consists of a series of read‐alouds organized by topics (called domains), many of which are informational in nature. The goal of the Listening and Learning Strand is for students to acquire language competence through listening, specifically building a rich vocabulary, and broad knowledge in history and science by being exposed to carefully selected, sequenced, and coherent read‐alouds.