Michigan State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 3

MI.R. Reading

R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word Recognition

R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently encountered words in print whether encountered in connected text or in isolation with the number of words that can be read fluently increasing steadily across the school year.

R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and affixes to automatically read frequently encountered words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings including multiple meaning words.

R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral language contexts.

R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95 common nouns.

R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth grade.

R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting, applying knowledge of language, sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.

R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Fluency

R.WS.03.07. Students will apply the following aspects of fluency: pauses and emphasis, punctuation cues, intonation, and automatic recognition of identified grade-level specific words and sight words while reading aloud familiar grade-level text.

R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary

R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms, multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and literary terms using strategies and resources including context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.

R.4. Narrative Text

R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes about one another in familiar classic, multicultural, and contemporary literature recognized for quality and literary merit.

R.NT.03.02. Students will identify and describe the basic elements and purpose of a variety of narrative genre including folktales, fables, and realistic fiction.

R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters' thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs. evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).

R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices including prediction, personification, and point of view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting, and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important character traits.

R.5. Informational Text

R.IT.03.01. Students will identify and describe the basic elements, features, and purpose of a variety of informational genre including textbooks, encyclopedias, and magazines.

R.IT.03.02. Students will identify informational text patterns including descriptive, sequential, enumerative, compare/contrast, and problem/solution.

R.IT.03.03. Students will explain how authors use text features including titles, headings and subheadings, timelines, prefaces, indices, and table of contents to enhance the understanding of key and supporting ideas.

R.6. Comprehension

R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge, experiences, and understanding of the world to themes and perspectives in text through oral and written responses.

R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and relevant details of grade-level informational text.

R.CM.03.03. Students will compare and contrast relationships among characters, events, and key ideas within and across texts to create a deeper understanding; including a narrative to an informational text, a literature selection to a subject area text, and an historical event to a current event.

R.CM.03.04. Students will apply significant knowledge from grade-level science, social studies, and mathematics texts.

R.7. Metacognition

R.MT.03.01. Students will self-monitor comprehension when reading or listening to texts by automatically applying strategies used by mature readers to increase comprehension including: predicting, constructing mental images, visually representing ideas in text, questioning, rereading or listening again if uncertain about meaning, inferring, and summarizing.

R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills, strategies, and processes to construct and convey meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use graphic organizers to deepen understanding of problem/solution and organizational patterns.

R.8. Critical Standards

R.CS.03.01. Students will develop, discuss, and apply individual and shared standards using student/class created rubrics and begin to assess the quality and accuracy of their own writing and the writing of others.

R.9. Reading Attitude

R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do substantial reading and writing on their own.

MI.W. Writing

W.1. Writing Genre

W.GN.03.01. Students will write a cohesive narrative piece such as a fable, folktale, or realistic fiction using personification, setting, actions and thoughts that reveal important character traits.

W.GN.03.02. Students will write poetry based on reading a wide variety of grade-appropriate poetry.

W.GN.03.03. Students will write an informational piece including a report that demonstrates the understanding of central ideas and supporting details using an effective organizational pattern (e.g., compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution) with a title, heading, subheading, and a table of contents.

W.GN.03.04. Students will use the writing process to produce and present a research project; initiate research questions from content area text from a teacher-selected topic; and use a variety of resources to gather and organize information.

W.2. Writing Process

W.PR.03.01. Students will set a purpose, consider audience, and replicate authors' styles and patterns when writing a narrative or informational piece.

W.PR.03.02. Students will apply a variety of pre-writing strategies for both narrative and informational writing (e.g., graphic organizers such as maps, webs, Venn diagrams) in order to generate, sequence, and structure ideas (e.g., sequence for beginning, middle, and end, problem/ solution, or compare/contrast).

W.PR.03.03. Students will draft focused ideas in written compositions using multiple sentences and paragraphs to slow down or speed up reading; including varying patterns and/or organizational text structures (e.g., compare/contrast, cause/effect, or problem/solution).

W.PR.03.04. Students will revise drafts based on constructive and specific oral and written responses to writing by identifying sections of the piece to improve sequence and flow of ideas (e.g., arranging paragraphs, connecting main and supporting ideas, transitions).

W.PR.03.05. Students will proofread and edit writing using appropriate resources (e.g., dictionary, spell check, writing references) and grade-level checklists, both individually and in groups.

W.3. Personal Style

W.PS.03.01. Students will exhibit personal style and voice to enhance the written message in both narrative (e.g., varied word choice and sentence structure, character description) and informational writing (e.g., examples, transitions, grammar and usage).

W.4. Grammar and Usage

W.GR.03.01. Students will in the context of writing, correctly use subjects and verbs that are in agreement; verb tenses; nouns and possessives; commas in a series; and begin use of quotation marks and capitalization in dialogue.

W.5. Spelling

W.SP.03.01. Students will in the context of writing, correctly spell frequently encountered words (e.g., multi-syllabic, r-controlled, most consonant blends, contractions, compounds, common homophones); for less frequently encountered words, use structural cues (e.g., letter/sound, rimes, morphemic) and environmental sources (e.g., word walls, word lists, dictionaries, spell checkers).

W.6. Handwriting

W.HW.03.01. Students will fluently and legibly write the cursive alphabet.

W.7. Writing Attitude

W.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about writing and learning to write.

MI.S. Speaking

S.1. Conventions

S.CN.03.01. Students will use common grammatical structures correctly when speaking including time relationships, verb tenses, and causal and temporal relationships.

S.CN.03.02. Students will adjust their use of language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes including gathering information, making requests, discussing, classroom presentations, and playground interactions.

S.CN.03.03. Students will speak effectively emphasizing key words and varied pace for effect in narrative and informational presentations.

S.CN.03.04. Students will present in standard American English if it is their first language. (Students whose first language is not English will present in their developing version of standard American English.)

S.CN.03.05. Students will understand, providing examples of how language differs from neighborhood to neighborhood of the local community as a function of linguistic and cultural group membership.

S.2. Discourse

S.DS.03.01. Students will engage in interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning in book clubs, literature circles, partnerships, or other conversation protocols.

S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables, realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g., characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot, story level theme) and explain why the story is worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or the audience.

S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by reflecting, making connections, taking a position, and/or showing understanding.

S.DS.03.04. Students will plan and deliver presentations using an effective informational organizational pattern (e.g., descriptive, problem/solution, cause/effect); supportive facts and details reflecting a variety of resources; and varying the pace for effect.

MI.L. Listening and Viewing

L.1. Conventions

L.CN.03.01. Students will ask substantive questions of the speaker that will provide additional elaboration and details.

L.CN.03.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably while demonstrating appropriate social skills of audience behaviors (e.g., eye contact, attentive, supportive) in small and large group settings.

L.CN.03.03. Students will distinguish between and explain how verbal and non-verbal strategies enhance understanding of spoken messages and promote effective listening behaviors.

L.CN.03.04. Students will be aware that the media has a role in focusing attention on events and in shaping opinions; recognize the variables (e.g., mistakes, misspeaks) in the media.

L.2. Response

L.RP.03.01. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably and discuss a variety of genre and compare their responses to those of their peers.

L.RP.03.02. Students will select, listen to or view knowledgeably, and respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary texts recognized for quality and literary merit.

L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating, and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections, take a position, and/or show understanding.

L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening then summarizing orally).

L.RP.03.05. Students will respond to and retell what a speaker said, paraphrasing and explaining the main idea, and then extend their response by connecting and relating it to personal experiences.