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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How to Make Pancakes: Article Edition - Worksheet
A procedural text with missing articles.
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Apostrophe of Possession Card Game
An interactive card game for students to play to reinforce their understanding of the apostrophe of possession.
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Pronoun Worksheet – Hansel and Gretel
Use this pronoun worksheet to get students identifying pronouns in the context of a well-known fairy tale.
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Writing Compound Sentences with Conjunctions Worksheet
Assign this worksheet to allow students to practice using coordinating conjunctions to create compound sentences.
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Persuasive Planning Template – Castle
Plan a persuasive text with this castle planning template.
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Describing Dragons Worksheet
With this 2-page worksheet, students will draw an original dragon and describe it by writing sentences using vivid adjectives.
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Nothing but Nouns Game
A game to practice working with common, proper, and collective nouns.
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Perfect Tense Verbs Worksheet
A series of three worksheets that contain passages written in the past, present, and future perfect tenses.
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Subject Verb Agreement Dice Game
Download this dice game for pairs of students to practice subject-verb agreement and sentence writing.
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Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs Worksheet
A worksheet that helps students identify irregular verbs.
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Writing Data Display - Ninjas Bump it Up Wall
Help your students "bump up" their writing with this ninja-themed bulletin board display.
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Main Clauses and Subordinate Clauses Poster
A poster explaining main clauses and subordinate clauses.
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'Pick Three' Writing Inspiration Worksheet
A worksheet to use when students need writing inspiration for a narrative piece.
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Possessive Nouns Worksheet
A worksheet to practice writing possessive nouns correctly.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Possessive Nouns
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with possessive nouns.
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Printable Seek and Find — In the Park Theme
A fun, search and find activity for students.
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Grade 3 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 3
A 61-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Punctuation Puppets
A set of punctuation characters to cut out and use as puppets.
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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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BUMP! Contractions - Board Game
A board game to practice making contractions using apostrophes.
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Adverb Crossword – Worksheet
A crossword for students to review different adverbs.
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Adjective Task Cards
Identify the adjective in the sentence through this set of 20 task cards.
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Story Spine Porcupine – Narrative Writing Template
Print a narrative writing graphic organizer template designed to help students plan their narrative.
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Editing Checklist for Students
Help your students with the editing process with this editing checklist.
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Conversation Hearts - Template
Turn this set of 18 conversation heart templates into a variety of teaching resources leading up to Valentine's Day.
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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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Color Quest: Brainstorming Map
A template to use with your students when brainstorming for a narrative text.
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What I Love: Brainstorming Map
A template to use with your students when brainstorming for a narrative text.
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List of Adjectives - Words to Describe Mom
Describe the amazing moms in your students' lives with the help of a printable list of motherly adjectives.
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Everyday Grammar Capitalization and Punctuation Warm-Ups – Grades 3 and 4 Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the middle grades classroom when learning about grammar and punctuation.