3rd

Reading (Literature)

Reading (Informational Text)

Reading (Foundational Skills)

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Language

Answer who and what questions to demonstrate understanding of details in a text.

Associate details with events in stories from diverse cultures.

Identify the feelings of characters in a story.

Determine words and phrases that complete literal sentences in a text.

Determine the beginning, middle, and end of a familiar story with a logical order.

Identify personal point of view about a text.

Identify parts of illustrations or tactual information that depict a particular setting, or event.

Identify common elements in two stories in a series.

Demonstrate understanding while actively engaged in shared reading of stories, dramas, and poetry.

Answer who and what questions to demonstrate understanding of details in a text.

Identify details in a text.

Order two events from a text as “first” and “next.”

Determine words and phrases that complete literal sentences in a text.

With guidance and support, use text features including headings and key words to locate information in a text.

Identify personal point of view about a text.

Use information gained from visual elements and words in the text to answer explicit who and what questions.

Identify two related points the author makes in an informational text.

Identify similarities between two texts on the same topic.

Demonstrate understanding of text while actively engaged in shared reading of history/social studies, science, and technical texts.

Use letter-sound knowledge to read words.

Read words in text. 

Write opinions about topics or text. 

Write to share information supported by details.

Write about events or personal experiences. 

With guidance and support, produce writing that expresses more than one idea.

With guidance and support from adults and peers, revise own writing. 

With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce writing while interacting and collaborating with others.

Identify information about a topic for a research project.

Sort information on a topic or personal experience into two provided categories and write about each one.

Write routinely for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Engage in collaborative discussions.

Identify details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Ask or answer questions about the details provided by the speaker

Recount a personal experience, story, or topic including details.

Create a multimedia presentation of a story or poem.

Combine words for effective communication to clarify thoughts, feelings, and ideas in various contexts.

Demonstrate standard English grammar and usage when communicating.

Demonstrate understanding of conventions of standard English.

Use language to achieve desired outcomes when communicating.

Demonstrate knowledge of word meanings

Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and use.

Demonstrate understanding of words that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., behind, under, after, soon, next, later).

In context, demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences. 

With models and supports, decode single-syllable words with common spelling patterns (consonant-vowel- consonant [CVC] or high-frequency rimes).  

Recognize 40 or more written words.

Read familiar text comprised of known words.

Use context to determine missing words in familiar texts.

Select a text and write an opinion about it.

Write one reason to support an opinion about a text.

 Select a topic and write about it including one fact or detail.

Select an event or personal experience and write about it including the names of people involved.

Engage in collaborative interactions about texts.

Listen to others’ ideas before responding.

Indicate confusion or lack of understanding about information presented.

Express ideas clearly.

Uses noun + verb, noun + adjective, and subject + verb + object combinations in communication. 

Use regular plural nouns in communication.

Use present and past tense verbs.

Use common adjectives.

Ask simple questions.

Capitalize the first letter of familiar names.

During shared writing, indicate the need to add a period at the end of a sentence.

Use resources as needed to spell common high frequency words accurately.

Use spelling patterns in familiar words with common spelling patterns to spell words with the same spelling pattern.

Consult print in the environment to support reading and spelling.

Use language to make simple requests, comment, or share information.

With guidance and support, use sentence level context to determine what word is missing from a sentence read aloud.

With guidance and support, identify the temporal meaning of words when common affixes (-ing, -ed) are added to common verbs

Determine the literal meaning of words and phrases in context.

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., happy: “I am happy.”). 

Identify words that describe personal emotional states.