Third Grade 1st Quarter Common Core ELA Checklist
I Can…
Grade Level Standard: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency
to support comprehension.
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Read grade-level text fluently and show comprehension
through voice, timing, and expression. (RF3.4)
Read fluently (easy, smooth, and automatic). (RF3.4)
Grade Level Standard: Know and apply grade-level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words.
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Break apart words into syllable segments to help me
decode words I do not know. (RF3.3)
Define prefix and suffix. (RF3.3)
Identify common prefixes and suffixes (e.g. un-, re-, pre-,
-er, -est, -ful). (RF3.3)
Grade Level Standard: Determine the meaning of general academic
and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a
grade 3 topic or subject area.
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Locate and use resources (ex. glossary, guide word,
dictionary) to help me determine the meaning of unknown
words and phrases. (RI3.4)
Grade Level Standard: Use text features and search tools (e.g.
key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to
a given topic efficiently.
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Identify and give examples of text features and search
tools. (RI3.5)
Explain how text features and search tools help locate
information quickly. (RI3.5)
Grade Level Standard: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their
traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions
contribute to the sequence of events.
9 Identify characters in a story. (RL3.3)
10 Describe characters in a story using physical (outside
qualities) and emotional (inside qualities) traits. (RL3.3)
11 Explain how characters’ actions (what they do) cause
events to occur in a certain order/sequence. (RL3.3)
Grade Level Standard: Explain how specific aspects of a text’s
illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a
story (e.g. create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or
setting).
12 Identify illustrations that support the story. (RL3.7)
13 Explain how illustrations in text add meaning to the words.
(RI3.7)
14 Use Illustrations and the words in a text to help me
understand and explain what I am reading. (RI3.7)
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Grade Level Standard: Compare and contrast the themes,
settings, and pots of stories written by the same author about
the same or similar characters (e.g. in books from a series).
15 Define setting (the time and place of a story). (RL3.9)
16 Define plot (the sequence of events in a story). (RL3.9)
Grade Level Standard: Determine the main idea of a text;
recount the key details and explain how they support the main
idea.
17 Define main idea (who or what is the text mostly about).
(RI3.2)
Grade Level Standard: Explain how specific aspects of a text’s
illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a
story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or
setting).
18 Explain how illustrations contribute (add meaning) to the
words, mood, setting, and the characters in the story.
(RL3.7)
Grade Level Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from
that of the narrator or those of the characters.
19 Define point of view (someone’s view or attitude about a
situation). (RL3.6)
Grade Level Standard: 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.
20 Use language that shows time (before, now, later, etc.)
and sequence (first, next, last, etc.) when describing a
text. (RI3.3)
Grade Level Standard: Recount stories, including fables, folktales
and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message,
lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through the key
details in the text.
21 Recount/retell (put in my own words) stories. (RL3.2)
Grade Level Standard: Ask and answer questions to determine
understanding of a text referring explicitly to the text as the
basis for the answers.
22 Locate words and details to answer explicit questions in a
text. (RL3.1)
23 Ask and answer questions before, during and after reading
a text. (RL3.1)
Grade Level Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate
understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the
basis for the answers.
24 Locate words and details to answer explicit questions in a
text. (RI3.1)
Grade Level Standard: Determine the meaning of words and
phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from
nonliteral language.
25 Use context clues to determine the meaning of literal and
non-literal language. (RL3.4)
26 Define literal language (it says what it means) and nonliteral (what it says is not exactly what it means). (RL3.4)
MT= More Time Needed
Notes:
P= Proficient
A= Advanced