ELAR 3.11
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
- (1) plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a
particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as
brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;
- (A) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
- (B) organizing with purposeful structure, including an
introduction and a conclusion; and
- (i) developing an engaging idea with relevant details;
- (ii) revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
- (C) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- (D) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb
agreement;
- (i) past, present, and future verb tense;
- (ii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
- (iii) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
- (iv) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;
- (v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- (vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
- (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
- (ix) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and
- (x) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
- (xi) publish written work for appropriate audiences.
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Opinion Writing Worksheet - Would You Rather?
A worksheet for students to use to write an opinion composition.
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Grade 3 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
A 64-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Grade 3 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 1
A 68-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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What's in My Living Room? – Worksheet
A fun search and find activity with optional worksheets for students.
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BUMP! Contractions - Board Game
A board game to practice making contractions using apostrophes.
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Punctuation Poster – Apostrophe
A poster that explains apostrophes and provides an example of how to use them.
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Punctuation Poster – Comma
A poster that explains commas and provides an example of how to use them.
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Parts of Speech Word Search – Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs – Worksheet
Find and categorize nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs with this color by parts of speech worksheet.
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Grammar and Punctuation Tails - Active Learning
An active game that requires students to use their basic grammar and punctuation knowledge.
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Editing Passages PowerPoint - Grade 3
A 42 slide editable PowerPoint template containing editing passages with answers.
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Editing Checklist
Help your students with the editing process with this editing checklist.
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Editing Poster
A poster outlining how to edit a piece of writing.
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Objective and Subjective Pronouns Worksheet
A 2-page worksheet to practice identifying and using objective and subjective pronouns.
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Introduction to Brainstorming PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint to use when introducing brainstorming to your students.
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Color by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs - Frog
Review four parts of speech by coloring nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs on the frog.
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Punctuation Movie Show Reel
Punctuation displayed on a movie show reel.
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The Writing Process - Color
A simple poster outlining the writing process.
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The Writing Process - Black and White Version
A simple poster outlining the writing process.
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4 Star Writing Poster and Checklist Sheet
Is your writing 4 star writing? Ensure your students are double checking their work with these four stars.
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Prepositional Phrase Mini Jigsaw Puzzle
5 mini jigsaw puzzles that require the students to construct prepositional phrases.
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Saying Verbs Poster
A poster giving the definition and examples of saying verbs.
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Punctuation Poster Pack
A pack of 6 posters covering the common punctuation marks.
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The Writing Process Poster - Landscape
A simple poster outlining the writing process.
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The Writing Process Poster - Portrait
A simple poster outlining the writing process.
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Sentence Saga Literacy Activity (Silly Sentences)
A set of words and punctuation marks that are combined to make sentences.
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Opinion Sentence Worksheet
Some opinion sentence starters to be completed with evidence.
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Punctuation Poster
A cute punctuation poster to display in your classroom.
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Writing An Informational Text Poster
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of an informational text.
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Paragraphs in Narrative Writing Poster
A poster explaining how to write paragraphs in narrative texts.
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Grammar Bookmarks – Miniature Anchor Charts for Upper Grades
A quick reference grammar guide for students on a bookmark.
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Independent and Dependent Clauses - Matchup Activity
A set of 5 basic worksheets aimed at the lower grades to help introduce the concept of independent and dependent clauses.
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Punctuation Tracking Chart Monster Theme
A classroom display that allows students to see their progress toward using correct punctuation in their sentences.