Chicopee Public Schools:
English Language Learners Curriculum
Grade: 3 Subject: English Strand: Reading / Literature
Academic Benchmarks / Skills:
1. Use letter-sound knowledge to decode written language. (HM 7.8)
2. Read grade-appropriate narrative and expository text with comprehension. (HM7.9)
3. Read aloud grade-appropriate narrative and expository text fluently, accurately, and with comprehension, using appropriate timing, change in voice, and expression. (HM 7.10)
4. Identify and show the relevance of foreshadowing clues. (HM 8.11)
5. Identify sensory details and figurative language. (HM 8.12)
6. Identify the speaker of a poem or story. (HM 8.13)
7. Make judgments about setting, characters, and events and support them with evidence from the text. (HM 8.14)
8. Locate facts that answer the reader’s questions. (HM 8.15)
9. Distinguish cause from effect. (HM 8.16)
10. Distinguish fact from opinion. (HM 8.17)
11. Summarizing main ideas and supporting details. (HM 8.18)
12. Identify similarities and differences between the characters or events in a literary work and the actual experiences in an author’s life. (HM 9.3)
13. Distinguish among common forms of literature such as poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, and drama and apply this knowledge as a strategy for reading and writing. (HM 10.2)
14. Identify themes as lessons in folktales, fables, and Greek myths for children. (HM 11.2)
15. Identify and analyze the elements of plot, character, and setting in the stories they read and write. (HM 12.2)
16. Identify and use knowledge of common textual and graphic features and organizational structures in order to gain meaning from a variety of informational materials. (HM 13.2)
17. Identify rhyme and rhythm, repetition, similes, and visual and auditory images in poems that are read
aloud, and use these techniques in their writing. (HM 14.2)
18. Identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct comparisons in literature and spoken language. (HM 15.1)
19. Identify phenomena explained in origin myths (Prometheus / fire; Pandora / evil). (HM 16.4)
20.Identify the adventures or exploits of a character type in traditional literature. (HM 16.5)
21. Acquire knowledge of culturally significant characters and events in Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology and other traditional literature. (HM 16.6)
22.Identify and analyze the elements of plot, character, and setting as presented through dialogue in scripts they view, read, write, and perform. (HM 17.2)
23.Plan and perform readings of selected texts for an audience using clear diction and voice quality (volume, tempo, pitch, tone) appropriate to the selection, and use teacher-developed assessment criteria as they prepare their presentations. (HM 18.2)
ELL Benchmarks (ELPBO)
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R1.2c Demonstrate comprehension of compound words made of familiar words (such as snowman, daydream). |
R1.1 Read and understand previously learned essential vocabulary words.
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R1.3 Use context to determine the meanings of words.
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R1.6 Recognize similarities and differences in orthographic conventions and structures between and among languages.
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ELL Benchmarks (ELPBO)
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R2.1 Demonstrate awareness of and readiness for reading for meaning.
R2.2b Identify labels and signs in the school environment.
R2.2c Read familiar high-frequency, irregularly spelled words by sight (such as have, said, where).
R2.3 Recognize that printed text has specific form and carries meaning.
R2.5a Identify the initial sounds of familiar words.
R2.5b Identify the final sounds of familiar words.
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R1.2a Identify base words and their inflectional forms.
R1.2b Identify forms of regular plural nouns and irregular plural nouns.
R1.2d Apply knowledge of word families (onset/rime) to determine word meaning.
R1.2e Identify common prefixes (such as un-, re-, dis-) and use them to determine word meaning.
R1.2f Identify cognates to determine word meaning.
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R2.8 Apply knowledge of word context to gain meaning from text.
R2.9 Demonstrate understanding of selected features of written English.
R3.2 Identify details that support main idea (s) in a literary or an informational text.
R3.4a Identify words and phrases that signal chronology in a text.
R3.4b Identify words and phrases that signal steps of a process in a text.
R3.4f Distinguish fact from opinion in a text. |
R3.4c Identify the speaker of a poem or story.
R3.4d Identify words and phrases that signal cause and effect in a text.
R3.4e Describe setting, characters, and / or events in a text, and support opinions about them with evidence from the text.
R3.4g Draw a conclusion from a text.
R3.5 Identify theme in a variety of texts.
R4.1 Apply knowledge of general characteristics of a literary genre as a strategy for reading. |
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R2.5c Identify the medial sounds of familiar words.
R2.5d Demonstrate knowledge of consonant blends, using recognizable words.
R2.6 Apply letter-sound knowledge to connect meaning with printed words.
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R1.4 Apply knowledge of the basic parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) and simple sentence structures to comprehend text.
R1.5 Apply knowledge of text structures to comprehend text.
R2.2a Match previously learned spoken words to written words.
R2.2d Read phrases containing previously learned words as units of meaning.
R2.2e Spell previously learned words and phrases.
R2.4 Demonstrate that phonemes exist and can be isolated and manipulated.
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R3.6b Preview text features to predict meaning.
R3.6c Pause while reading silently to check that information makes sense.
R4.3 Analyze the elements of plot, character, and setting in stories.
R5.1 Distinguish forms and purposes of informational and expository materials (such as encyclopedias, CD-ROMs, newspapers, magazines, letters, content texts).
R5.5a Identify facts to answer the reader’s questions.
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R4.2 Classify spoken or written words as belonging to sense categories (such as visual, auditory, tactile) when found in literary texts.
R4.4b Identify various patterns of repetition in poems.
R4,4d Identify sensory images in poems.
R4.4e Locate similes in a poem.
R4.5a Identify recurring phrases in nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, lullabies, and myths.
R4.5b Predict recurring phrases in nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, lullabies, and myths.
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R2.5e Demonstrate knowledge of long- and short-vowel patterns, using recognizable words.
R2.7 Apply word analysis to decode printed words, both known and unknown.
R3.1 Identify main idea(s) or important information in a literary or an informational text.
R3.6a Identify text features (such as title, illustrations, headings, captions, graphics, and bold-face type).
R5.2 Use knowledge of text features to determine the purpose and meaning of text.
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R5.5c Restate main ideas and important facts from a text.
R5.6 Distinguish cause from effect in text.
R6.2c Visually represent data gathered through research (such as in a graph, chart, timeline)
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R4.5d Identify and compare character types (such as tricksters, heroes, heroines) in traditional literature from various cultures.
S4.7a Identify dialogue as an element in a play.
S4.7b Identify elements of plot and character as presented through dialogue in scripts.
R5.7 Distinguish fact from opinion or fiction in informational texts.
R6.1 Generate questions and list sources to be used in research.
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R5.3 Use knowledge of common graphic features to determine the purpose and meaning of text.
R5.4 Use knowledge of common organizational structure (chronological order) to determine meaning of text.
R5.5b Identify main ideas and important facts in a text. |
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R6.2a Gather information in order to answer research questions.
S6.2b Select information pertinent to a research from all information gathered.
R6.3 Use a scoring guide to evaluate group work on a research project. |