Grade 3
3.RL.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
October 1, 20183.RL.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
October 1, 20183.RL.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
October 1, 20183.RL.5
Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
October 1, 20183.RL.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
October 1, 20183.RI.3
Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
October 1, 20183.RI.4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
October 1, 20183.RI.5
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
October 1, 20183.L.6
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
October 1, 20183.RF.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
October 1, 20183.RF.3a
Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
October 1, 2018