Standards

Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

• Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of materials.

• People apply critical thinking skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

• Throughout history, humans have used literature as a record of their experiences.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

• Why do we need to understand what we read or hear? How do we use strategies and skills to understand a variety of materials?

• What is critical thinking? Why is critical thinking important? How do we apply critical thinking skills?

• How and why do humans use literature to record their experiences? How has history influenced literature and vice versa?

Standards
Must be Mastered by End of Year Must be Introduced Other Standards & E-skills

Phonics
        Apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships and syllable spelling patterns to decode words in order to comprehend texts
Fluency

Third grade students will be able to read all Kindergarten, First and Second grade words. At the end of quarter one, students will be able to read 125 of these sight words. There are a total of 526 Third grade words. Other words will be learned from phonics, spelling and vocabulary programs to total the expected 1000+ words.
Read grade level materials attending to phrasing, intonation, and punctuation
Vocabulary
        Understand vocabulary essential to text
Comprehension
1.b Summarize text passages.
1.c Identify main idea, and find information to support particular ideas.
    1.d Draw inferences using contextual clues.
    1.g Use word recognition skills and resources (for example, phonics, context clues, picture clues, reference guides, roots, prefixes and suffixes of words) for comprehension.

Writes for a Variety of Purposes
Short constructed responses to fiction
        Use graphic organizers to identify main ideas and supporting details 
        Organize writing with a beginning, middle, end or with main idea and supporting details
        Summarize for a variety of purposes
        Use basic paragraph structure
Writing: Conventions, Mechanics, and Grammar  3^rd Grade Writing Rubric
        Use correct grammar
        Use capitals and end punctuation
        Write in complete sentences
        Write legibly in print, word processing
        Identify and discuss metaphors and similes
        Identify and use nouns and verbs in writing   
        Use a dictionary to edit original work
 

During the 2007-2008 school year,  Literacy Resource Teachers and classroom teachers will be correlating textbook pages to the emphasized standards for each month. Also, teachers will be developing District 11 Diamond Lessons for each quarter.

Reading Programs

Writing Programs

Lessons