Grade 3 - English Language Arts

General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.

General Outcome 2:  Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.

General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and information.

General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.

General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.

Discover and Explore

Clarify and Extend

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts

Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques

Create Original Text

Plan and Focus

Select and Process

Organize, Record and Evaluate

Share and Review

Enhance and Improve

Attend to Conventions

Present and Share

Respect Others and Strengthen Community

Work within a Group

Express ideas and develop understanding

Experiment with language and forms:

Express preferences:

Set goals:

Consider the ideas of others:

Combine ideas:

Extend understanding:

Use prior knowledge:

Use comprehension strategies:

Use textual cues:

Use phonics and structural analysis:

Use references:

Experience various texts:

Construct meaning from texts:

Construct meaning from texts:

Appreciate the artistry of texts:

Understand forms and genres:

Understand techniques and elements:

Experiment with language:

Generate ideas:

Elaborate on the expression of ideas:

Structure texts:

Focus attention:

Determine information needs:

Plan to gather information:

Use a variety of sources:

Access information:

Evaluate sources:

Organize information:

Record information:

Evaluate information:

Share ideas and information:

Review research process:

Appraise own and others’ work:

Revise and edit:

Enhance legibility:

Expand knowledge of language:

Enhance artistry:

Attend to grammar and usage:

Attend to spelling:

Attend to capitalization and punctuation:

Present information:

Enhance presentation:

Use effective oral and visual communication:

Demonstrate attentive listening and viewing:

Appreciate diversity:

Relate texts to culture:

Celebrate accomplishments and events:

Use language to show respect:

Cooperate with others:

Work in groups:

Evaluate group process:

Connect prior knowledge and personal experiences with new ideas and information in oral, print and other media texts

Explain understanding of new concepts in own words

Explore ideas and feelings by asking questions, talking to others and referring to oral, print and other media texts

Choose appropriate forms of oral, print and other media texts for communicating and sharing ideas with others

Choose and share a variety of oral, print and other media texts in areas of particular interest

Discuss areas of personal accomplishment as readers, writers and illustrators

Ask for the ideas and observations of others to explore and clarify personal understanding

Experiment with arranging and recording ideas and information in a variety of ways

Ask questions to clarify information and ensure understanding

Share ideas developed through interests, experiences and discussion that are related to new ideas and information

Identify the different ways in which oral, print and other media texts, such as stories, textbooks, letters, pictionaries and junior dictionaries, are organized, and use them to construct and confirm meaning

Use grammatical knowledge to predict words and sentence structures when reading narrative and expository materials

Apply a variety of strategies, such as setting a purpose, confirming predictions, making inferences and drawing conclusions

Identify the main idea or topic and supporting details in simple narrative and expository passages

Extend sight vocabulary to include predictable phrases and words related to language use

Read silently with increasing confidence and accuracy

Monitor and confirm meaning by rereading when necessary, and by applying knowledge of pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and graphophonic cueing systems

Use headings, paragraphs, punctuation and quotation marks to assist with constructing and confirming meaning

Attend to and use knowledge of capitalization, commas in a series, question marks, exclamation marks and quotation marks to read accurately, fluently and with comprehension during oral and silent reading

Apply phonic rules and generalizations competently and confidently to read unfamiliar words in context

Apply word analysis strategies to segment words into parts or syllables, when reading unfamiliar words in context

Associate sounds with an increasing number of vowel combinations, consonant blends and digraphs, and letter clusters to read unfamiliar words in context

Put words in alphabetical order by first and second letter

Use pictionaries, junior dictionaries and spell-check functions to confirm the spellings or locate the meanings of unfamiliar words in oral, print and other media texts

Choose a variety of oral, print and other media texts for shared and independent listening, reading and viewing experiences, using texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as nonfiction, chapter books, illustrated storybooks, drum dances, fables, CDROM programs and plays

Tell or write about favourite parts of oral, print and other media texts

 Connect own experiences with the experiences of individuals portrayed in oral, print and other media texts, using textual references

Identify types of literature, such as humour, poetry, adventure and fairy tales, and describe favourites

Connect portrayals of characters or situations in oral, print and other media texts to personal and classroom experiences

Summarize the main idea of individual oral, print and other media texts

Discuss, represent or write about ideas in oral, print and other media texts, and relate them to own ideas and experiences and to other texts

Make inferences about a character’s actions or feelings

Express preferences for one character over another

Express feelings related to words, visuals and sound in oral, print and other media texts

Identify how authors use comparisons, and explain how they create mental images

Identify distinguishing features of a variety of oral, print and other media texts

Discuss ways that visual images convey meaning in print and other media texts

Include events, setting and characters when summarizing or retelling oral, print or other media texts

Describe the main characters in terms of who they are, their actions in the story and their relations with other characters

Identify ways that messages are enhanced in oral, print and other media texts by the use of specific techniques

Recognize examples of repeated humour, sound and poetic effects that contribute to audience enjoyment

Experiment with ways of generating and organizing ideas prior to creating oral, print and other media texts

Use sentence variety to link ideas and create impressions on familiar audiences

Experiment with a variety of story beginnings to choose ones that best introduce particular stories

Add sufficient detail to oral, print and other media texts to tell about setting and character, and to sustain plot

Use self-questioning to identify information needed to supplement personal knowledge on a topic

Identify facts and opinions, main ideas and details in oral, print and other media texts

Ask topic-appropriate questions to identify information needs

Contribute ideas for developing a class plan to access and gather ideas and information

Find information to answer research questions, using a variety of sources, such as children’s magazines, CDROMs, plays, folk tales, songs, stories and the environment

Use text features, such as titles, pictures, headings, labels, diagrams and dictionary guide words, to access information

Locate answers to questions and extract appropriate and significant information from oral, print and other media texts

Use card or electronic catalogues to locate information

Review information to determine its usefulness in answering research questions

Organize ideas and information, using a variety of strategies, such as clustering, categorizing and sequencing

Draft ideas and information into short paragraphs, with topic and supporting sentences

Record facts and ideas using a variety of strategies; list titles and authors of sources

List significant ideas and information from oral, print and other media texts

Determine if gathered information is sufficient to answer research questions

Organize and share ideas and information on topics to engage familiar audiences

Use titles, headings and visuals to add interest and highlight important points of presentation

Assess the research process, using pre-established criteria

Share own oral, print and other media texts with others to identify strengths and ideas for improvement

Combine and rearrange existing information to accommodate new ideas and information

Edit for complete and incomplete sentences

Print legibly, and begin to learn proper alignment, shape and slant of cursive writing

Space words and sentences consistently on a line and page

Use keyboarding skills to compose, revise and print text

Understand and use vocabulary associated with keyboarding and word processing

Explain relationships among words and concepts associated with topics of study

Experiment with words and word meanings to produce a variety of effects

Choose words, language patterns, illustrations or sounds to add detail and create desired effects in oral, print and other media texts

Identify a variety of sentence types, and use in own writing

Identify correct subject–verb agreement, and use in own writing

Use adjectives and adverbs to add interest and detail to own writing

Distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences

Use phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory, systematically, to spell phonically regular, three-syllable words in own writing

Identify generalizations that assist with the spelling of unfamiliar words, including irregular plurals in own writing

Identify frequently misspelled words, and develop strategies for learning to spell them correctly in own writing

Use capital letters appropriately in titles of books and stories

Use exclamation marks, appropriately, as end punctuation in own writing

Use apostrophes to form common contractions and to show possession in own writing

Identify commas, end punctuation, apostrophes and quotation marks when reading, and use them to assist comprehension

Present ideas and information on a topic, using a pre-established plan

Use print and nonprint aids to illustrate ideas and information in oral, print and other media texts

Speak or present oral readings with fluency, rhythm, pace, and with appropriate intonation to emphasize key ideas

Rephrase, restate and explain the meaning of oral and visual presentations

Identify and set purposes for listening and viewing

Describe similarities between experiences and traditions encountered in daily life and those portrayed in oral, print and other media texts

Retell, paraphrase or explain ideas in oral, print and other media texts

Identify and discuss similar ideas or topics within stories from oral, print and other media texts from various communities

Use appropriate language to acknowledge and celebrate individual and class accomplishments

Demonstrate respect for the ideas, abilities and language use of others

Work cooperatively with others in small groups on structured tasks

Identify others who can provide assistance, and seek their help in specific situations

Contribute ideas and information on topics to develop a common knowledge base in the group

Ask others for their ideas, and express interest in their contributions

Assess the effectiveness of group process, using pre-established criteria