Reading Language Arts Grade 3 MA Frameworks

Continue to address the grades PreK-2 standards as needed.

• Recognize that words are constructed of many parts: letters, syllables, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
• Recognize that prefixes can change the meanings of root words (for example, agreeable/disagreeable, happy/unhappy, tell/retell).
• Identify roots of words (for example, -graph is a common root in autograph, photograph, biography).
• Recognize that many English words have Greek or Latin roots.
• Recognize that some words and phrases have both a literal and a non-literal meaning (for example, take steps).
• Identify playful uses of language (for example, riddles, crossword puzzles, tongue twisters).
• Determine the meanings of unknown words by using their context.
• Use the context of the sentence to determine the correct meaning of a word with multiple meanings.
• Determine the meanings of words using a beginning dictionary.
• Identify and apply the meanings of the terms antonym, synonym, and homophone.

• Distinguish between a statement and a question.
• Identify three basic parts of speech: adjective, noun, verb.
• Identify correct mechanics (for example, end marks, capitalization, comma in dates).

• Recognize dialect in conversational voices in American folk tales when they are read aloud.
• Identify formal and informal language used in advertisements read, heard, or seen.

Continue to address the grades PreK-2 standards as needed

and as they apply to more difficult texts.

• Identify foreshadowing clues as the parts of a text that help the reader predict what will happen later in a story.
• Identify sensory details in literature.
• Identify the speaker of a poem or narrator of a story.
• Retell the events of a story in sequence.
• Identify narrative elements of character, setting, and plot.
• Form questions about a text and locate facts/details in order to answer those questions.
• Distinguish cause from effect.
• Distinguish fact from fiction.

• Identify main ideas and supporting details.

• Distinguish among forms of literature (for example, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama).

• Identify themes as lessons in fables, stories, and poems.

• Identify the elements of fiction (problem, solution, character, and setting) and analyze how major events lead from problem to solution.
• Identify personality traits of characters and the thoughts, words, and actions that reveal their personalities.

• Identify and use knowledge of common textual features (for example, title, headings, key words, paragraphs, table of contents, glossary, captions accompanying illustrations or photographs).
• Identify and use knowledge of common graphic features (for example, charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations).

• Form questions about the text and locate facts/details in order to answer those questions.
• Distinguish cause from effect.
• Distinguish fact from fiction.
• Identify main ideas and supporting details.

• Identify poetic elements (for example, rhyme, rhythm, repetition, sensory images).
• Identify terminology for structural elements of poems (for example, stanza and verse).

• Identify words appealing to the senses or involving direct comparison in literature and spoken language.

• Identify natural events explained in origin myths.
• Acquire knowledge of culturally significant characters and events in Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, and in other traditional literature.

Identify and analyze elements of plot and character presented through dialogue in scripts that are read, viewed, listened, or performed.

ELA MA Frameworks for Grade 3 (pdf file)

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