Chicopee Public School
Academic Benchmarks
Grade 3
Language Strand
1. Students will use agreed-upon rules for informal and formal discussion in small and large groups.
2. Students will pose questions, listen to the ideas of others, and contribute their own information or ideas in group discussions or interviews in order to acquire knowledge.
3. Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audiences, purposes, and the information to be conveyed.
4. Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in reading and writing.
5. Students will analyze standard English grammar and usage and recognize how its vocabulary has developed and been influenced by other languages.
6. Students will describe, analyze, and use appropriately formal and informal English.
Vocabulary and Concept Development
Students who have acquired an extensive vocabulary have a much better chance of becoming successful readers, writers, and spellers. Research has shown that comprehension improves when students have multiple experiences with essential vocabulary words. Direct instruction in vocabulary strategies as well as exposing students to vocabulary in reading and oral story telling facilitate vocabulary acquisition.
Listed below are possible categories of vocabulary instruction that can be used from grade one through grade five. Students can be helped to acquire vocabulary through the use of:
dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries
word walls,
word banks (words that describe events or places such as a birthday party, amusement park,
etc.)
vocabulary journals,
word categories (lists of words that denote size, number, texture, color, etc.),
word of the day, etc.
Vocabulary and concept development should be a daily focus
Throughout the year at every grade level.
Word Meaning Introduce and define vocabulary.
Synonyms Develop synonym lists through word walls or individual vocabulary journals.
Antonyms Develop antonyms lists through word walls or individual vocabulary journals.
Context
Clues Identify words in the sentence that helps student to understand the
meaning. Give students oral or written sentence
and choice of three definitions)
Classify & Categorize Have students sort words. Provide choices. (Which word tells about an animal? Which word shows an action?
Compare & Contrast How are two words alike? How are two words different?
Word Families List words that belong to a word family and what are their shades of meaning
(jump, jumps, jumped, jumping)?
Figurative Language Similes, Metaphors, Personification
Multiple Meaning words Provide sentences for multiple meaning words and have students distinguish between the words.
Content-Area Words
Have students identify in what subject they would learn about a particular
word. Science, Math, Social Studies,
Art, Gym, etc. The farmer bartered ten bushels of corn for a new pair of
shoes from cobbler.
Rhyming Words Have students identify rhyming words and think of new rhyming words.
Prefixes & Suffixes Have students explain how the meaning of a word changes when a prefix or suffix s added.
Titles for
People Discuss the meaning of titles such as president, governor,
ambassador, etc. Abbreviations Discuss the purpose
of abbreviations and have students match the abbreviation to the word (street =
St., United States of America U.S.A.,
September = Sept. etc.).
Onomatopoeia Have students identify words that make sounds (ex. - words that make animal
sounds -moo, chirp, cluck, meow, oink, roar, buzz, etc.)
Alliteration Have students practice tongue twisters. Have students create lists of words that all
start the same and then select words that have similar meaning to make up their own
sentences with alliteration.
Homophones Define meanings of homophones and have students practice placing correct
homophone in sentences context clues.
Analogies If you can find grass in a pasture, what would find in a desert?
Word Origins Provide students with word histories and the county or origin.
Regionalism Discuss that people who live in different parts of the country use different
words to name the same thing (soda, pop, tonic pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks frying pan, skillet, spider- etc.).
Greek and Latin Roots cycl, graph, meter, photo, therm, aud, creit, dict, tract, etc.
Grade 3
Language Arts Strand
First Term Academic Benchmarks
Students will be able to:
1.2 Follow agreed-upon rules for class discussion and carry out assigned roles in self-run
small group discussions.
Create and ask questions and participate during literature discussions.
3.5 Make informal presentations that have a recognizable organization (sequencing,
summarizing).
Introduce themselves and others including pertinent and interesting information.
Give oral directions for an activity.
3.7 Use teacher-developed assessment criteria to prepare their presentations.
Use teacher generated assessment criteria to evaluate oral presentations.
4.14 Recognize and use words with multiple meanings and be able to determine with meaning is intended from the context of the sentence.
Identify multiple meaning of a word using a dictionary.
Use context to choose the correct dictionary definition.
4.15 Determine meanings of words and alternate word choices using a dictionary or thesaurus.
Locate words in a dictionary or thesaurus using alphabetical order to the third letter.
Identify and define and the dictionary part words: base word, part of speech, definition, pronunciation key, entry word, root word, syllabication.
5.4 Recognize the subject-predicate relationship in sentences.
Define, identify and classify the four kinds of sentences (statement, question, command, exclamation).
Define and identify complete subject and complete predicate.
Complete sentences missing either a complete subject or a complete predicate.
Define and identify simple subject and simple predicate.
Define, identify, and correct sentence fragments.
Combine two sentences with and or but to form a compound sentence.
5.6 Identify the four basic parts of speech.
Define, identify, and use correctly: nouns, common nouns, and proper nouns.
Define, identify, and correctly spell singular and plural nouns.
Form the plurals of words ending in ch, sh, x, and s.
5.7 Identify correct mechanics, usage, and sentence structure.
Define, identify, and use correctly end marks of punctuation.
Correctly capitalize sentences and punctuate sentences.
Combine sentences to improve writing.
Correctly use commas in dates and places.
Grade 3
Language Arts Strand
Second Term Academic Benchmarks
Students will be able to:
3.3 Adapt language to persuade, to explain, or to seek information.
Identify persuasive techniques.
Present a short persuasive speech.
3.4 Make informal presentations that have a recognizable organization (sequencing, summarizing).
Explain an activity or event that they attended.
3.6 Express an opinion of a literary work or film in an organize way, with supporting detail.
Identify the elements of an oral book report.
Orally present a book report.
3.7 Use teacher-developed assessment criteria to prepare their presentations.
Use teacher generated criteria as a guide to develop speeches and assess their presentations.
4.16 Identify and apply the meaning of the terms antonym, synonym, and homophone.
Identify pairs of antonyms and synonyms.
Identify the antonym or synonym of a word
4.9 Identify the common prefixes (un, re, dis).
Correctly read and define words that have the prefixes un-, bi-, dis-, mis-, non-, re-, and pre-.
Correctly read and define words that have the suffixes -ful, -ly, -er, and y.
4.13 Determine the meaning of unknown words using their context.
Define and deduce word meanings from context.
4.14 Recognize and use words with multiple meanings and be able to determine which
meaning is intended from the context of the sentences.
Identify the parts of speech in a dictionary entry and choose the definition that matches the context of the sentence.
4.15 Determine meanings of words and alternate word choices using a dictionary or
thesaurus.
Define the terms definition and context.
Identify multiple meanings in a dictionary entry and choose the correct definition based the context of the sentence.
4.16 Identify and apply the meaning of the terms antonym, synonym, and homophone.
Define and use correctly homophones (there, their, theyre, our, hour, hear, here, new, knew, its, its , seen, scene, I, eye, etc,).
Use a thesaurus to find synonyms.
5.4 Recognize the subject-predicate relationship in sentences.
Define, identify, and correct run-on sentences.
Correctly identify singular and plural subjects and choose the correct verb for subject-verb agreement.
5.6 Identify the four basic parts of speech.
Define, identify, and form correctly singular and plural possessive nouns.
Define and identify action verbs.
Identify present and past forms of the irregular verb be.
Define, identify, and correctly use helping verbs.
Define, identify, and correctly use common irregular verbs (eat, go, see, do come, give, write, run, take, grow, etc.)
Identify the past, present, and future forms of verbs.
Correctly form the plurals of nouns ending in -f or -fe.
Correctly spell and use words ending in -er and -est to form comparisons.
Correctly spell words when adding the endings -ed, -ing, -es, and y.
5.7 Identify correct mechanics, usage, and sentence structure.
Use commas correctly with introductory phrases.
Use commas correctly for direct address.
Define, identify, and correctly punctuate and capitalize dialogue.
Correctly identify singular and plural subjects and choose the correct verb form.
6.2 Recognize dialect in conversational voices in American folk tales.
Define the meaning of dialect.
Identify examples of dialect in stories and determine the meaning.
Grade 3
Language Arts Strand
Third Term Academic Benchmarks
Students will be able to:
4.9 Identify the meaning of common prefixes.
Define and use correctly the suffixes less and ness.
4.13 Determine the meanings of unknown words using their context.
Use context clues to identify the correct homophone.
4.14 Recognize and use words with multiple meanings and be able to determine which
meaning is intended from the context of the sentences.
Identify the parts of speech in a dictionary entry and choose the definition that matches the context of the sentence.
Spell and define correctly contractions.
Correctly distinguish between contractions and possessive pronouns.
4.15 Determine meanings and alternate word choices using a dictionary or thesaurus.
Use a dictionary and/or thesaurus to locate synonyms and antonyms for specific words.
Use a dictionary entry to locate the base or root word, part of speech, definitions, and pronunciation.
Use a dictionary to determine how a word is broken into syllables.
4.16 Identify and apply the meaning of the terms antonym, synonym and homophone.
Identify synonyms and antonyms for specific words.
Use context clues to identify the correct homophone.
5.6 Identify the four basic parts of speech.
Identify and correctly use pronouns, subject pronouns, and object pronouns.
Identify and correctly use possessive pronouns.
Identify and correctly use adjectives, including articles.
Form and correctly use the common comparative and superlative adjectives.
Identify, and correctly use adverbs.
5.7 Identify correct mechanics, usage, and sentence structure.
Define and correctly use exclamation points.
Punctuate and capitalize titles correctly.
Identify the characteristics of a play.
Correctly write dates and times.
Grade 3
Language Arts Strand
Fourth Term Academic Benchmarks
Students will be able to:
2.2 Contribute knowledge to class discussion in order to develop ideas for a class project and generate interview questions to be used as part of the project.
Identify the rules of good listening and sharing ideas.
Share ideas for a class research project.
3.3 Give oral presentations about experiences or interests using eye contact, proper place,
adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Give oral presentations on information they acquire in doing a research report.
3.6 Express an opinion of a literary work or film in an organize way, with supporting
detail.
Discuss the similarities and differences between a book and film.
3.7 Use teacher-developed assessment criteria to prepare their presentations.
Use teacher-developed criteria for evaluating their research report presentations.
4.10 Identify the meaning of common Greek and Latin roots to determine the meaning of
unfamiliar words.
Identify the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (cycl, graph, meter, photo, therm, aud, credit,
dict, .
4.11 Identify the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases.
Identify and draw the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases.
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4.12 Identify the playful uses of language (puns, jokes, palindromes).
Identify puns, jokes, and palindromes in stories.
5.7 Identify words or word parts from other languages than have been adopted into the
English language.
Identify and use correctly words from other countries that we use in the English language.
Create a list of words from other countries.
6.3 Identify formal and informal language use in advertisements read, heard, and/or seen.
Highlight words in advertisements that indicate formal and informal language.
Create an advertisement using both formal and informal language.
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