Oklahoma 3rd Grade ELA Standards in Critical Reading and Writing

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3.3 Critical Reading and Writing

• Reading: Students will analyze, interpret, and evaluate increasingly complex literary and informational texts that include a wide range of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives from a variety of genres.
  • 3.3.R.1 Students will determine if the author’s purpose is to entertain, inform, or persuade.
  • 3.3.R.2 Students will determine whether a grade-level literary text is narrated in first- or third-person point of view.
  • 3.3.R.3 Students will find examples of literary elements:
    • 3.3.R.3.a setting
    • 3.3.R.3.b plot
    • 3.3.R.3.c characters
    • 3.3.R.3.d characterization
  • 3.3.R.4 Students will find examples of literary devices:
    • 3.3.R.4.a personification
    • 3.3.R.4.b hyperbole
    • 3.3.R.4.c simile
    • 3.3.R.4.d alliteration
    • 3.3.R.4.e onomatopoeia
  • 3.3.R.5 Students will answer inferential questions, using a text to support answers.
  • 3.3.R.6 Students will distinguish fact from opinion in an informational text.
  • 3.3.R.7 Students will describe the structure of an informational text:
    • 3.3.R.7.a problem/solution
    • 3.3.R.7.b description
    • 3.3.R.7.c sequential
• Writing: Students will thoughtfully and intentionally write, addressing a range of modes, purposes, and audiences.
  • 3.3.W.1 Students will write narratives incorporating:
    • 3.3.W.1.a setting
    • 3.3.W.1.b plot
    • 3.3.W.1.c characters
    • 3.3.W.1.d characterization
  • 3.3.W.2 Students will write facts about a subject, including a main idea with supporting details, in multiple paragraphs with transitional words and phrases.
  • 3.3.W.3 Students will write an opinion about a topic and provide relevant evidence as support in multiple paragraphs with transitional words and phrases.