The following is a guide for choosing targeted objectives and assessing the students’ learning.  These grade level expectations for Grades 3-8, are not to be taught in isolation. This guide identifies featured skills that will be assessed at the end of the appropriate quarter. Each assessment is cumulative, so all the expectations need to continue to spiral throughout the year with a new group of identified skills featured. Some GLEs targeted in previous grades may also be assessed. The March CMT will test all skills expected to be mastered. These skills come from the reading comprehension GLEs. 

The * indicates a featured skill for the quarter. 

The x indicates continued instruction and possible assessment.

P indicates a prior grade’s GLE

Grade Level Expectations — Grade 3

Students:

Fall

Winter

CMT

Spring

Express opinions about texts and the reasons why (e.g., I liked …, I did not like …).   P

*

x

x

Summarize information with a beginning, middle and end. P

*

x

x

Make text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections. P

*

x

x

Identify rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and assonance in poetry.  P

*

x

x

Describe characters’ physical and personality traits.

*

x

x

Draw conclusions based on implicit or explicit evidence from text.

*

x

x

Describe the conflict faced by a character in a story.

*

x

x

Explain similarities and differences in a story.

*

x

x

State the main idea with supporting details in informational text.

*

x

Identify why a text is preferred, using evidence to support opinion.

*

x

Identify most surprising/interesting/important part of a text and explain why.

*

x

Develop a new title that best fits a text.

*

x

Identify and explain text structures (e.g., sequence, main idea/details, compare/contrast, cause-and-effect).

*

x

State the theme in literary text.

*

Interpret meaning based on charts, graphs, maps, illustrations, photos in text.

*

Decide an author’s purpose for including particular information in a text.

*

Discuss the culture and/or traditions described in a piece of literature and explain how they are similar or different from those of the reader.

*

Recognize values, ethics and beliefs included in a text.

*

identify the author’s use of  literacy devices (e.g., simile, personification, interesting word choice). P