Summary of CCS to CA ELA Standards-3rd grade
Students are asked to…
 In addition to reading with fluency, accuracy and prosody, students read with purpose,
understanding, and use context to self-correct (Foundational Skills: 4c)
 Identify and know the meaning of common prefixes and derivational suffixes and decode words
with common Latin suffixes.(Foundational Skills: 3a and b)
 …determine the central message…and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text
(Literature: 2)
 Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
(Literature: 3)
 Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion (S/L: 1d)
 Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems…(S/L: 5)
 Determine the meanings of words…distinguishing literal from nonliteral language (Literature:
4)
 Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute…(Literature: 7)
 Compare/contrast the themes, settings, plots…written by the same author…(Literature: 9)
 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events…using language that pertains to
time, sequence, and cause/effect (Info Text: 3)
 Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words (Foundational Skills: 3d)
 Write opinions pieces on topics…supporting a point of view with reasons…(Writing 1a-d)
 …use technology to produce and publish writing…(Writing: 6)
 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic (Writing: 7)
 Recall information from experiences or gather information from resources, take notes, sort
evidence into categories (Writing: 8)
 Form and use regular and irregular plurals (Language: 1b)
 Use reciprocal pronouns correctly (Language: 1c)
 Use abstract nouns (Language: 1e)
 Form and use irregular verbs (Language: 1d)
 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them
depending on what is to be modified (Language: 1i)
 Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (Language: 1j)
 Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences (Language: 1k)
 Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue (Language: 2c)
 Form and use possessives (Language: 2d)
 Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to
base words (Language: 2e)
 Consult reference materials…(Language 2g)
 Recognize and observe difference between the conventions of spoken and written standards
English (Language: 3b)
 Use a known root word as clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (Language:
4c)
 Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (Language:
5a)
 Identify real-life connection between words and their use (Language: 5b)
 Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees
or certainty (Language: 5c)
 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and
domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal
relationships (Language: 6)
Standards are not explicitly mentioned, may be implied in other standards, or shifted to other grade levels…
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Use knowledge of antonyms, synonyms homophones, and homographs to determine meaning of
words (1.4-found in 4th and 5th grade)
Ask question and support answers…with literal information found in and inferred from the text
(2.2)
Recall major points in the text and make and modify predictions about forthcoming information
(2.4)
Monterey County Office of Education 8/19/10
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Follow multi-step written directions (2.7)
Determine the underlying theme or author’s message in fiction and nonfiction text (3.4)
Recognize similarities of sounds in words…(3.5-however found in 2nd grade)
Identify the speaker or narrative in a selection (3.6-however found in 1st grade)
Write personal and formal letters…(2.3)
…complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory…(1.1-however found in
1st grade)
Use commas in dates…(1.6-however found in 1st grade)
Capitalize geographic names…(1.7-however found in 2nd grade)
Arrange words in alphabetical order (1.9)
Identify musical elements of literary language (1.4-however found in 2nd grade)
Distinguish between speaker’s opinion and verifiable fact (1.11)
Monterey County Office of Education 8/19/10
bold face=significant changes/impact