Big Ideas and Standards
This document outlines Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts standards for this specific grade level, as approved in May 2023.
What are the 3rd Grade ELA Standards?
The goal of this domain is for students to build a foundation for achieving dynamic literacy practices to aid reading comprehension.
What is the Foundations domain?
Students learn and apply the structures and conventions of standard English, observe and analyze how grammar works, and build vocabularies in this domain.
What is the Language domain?
Students engage purposefully with texts to grow their learning in this domain.
What is the Texts domain?
Students engage routinely in four literacy practices in this domain, which ground, shape, and inform the expectations of the Foundations, Language, and Texts domains
What is the Practices domain?
These are the four main organizational divisions or content areas within the 3rd Grade ELA Standards: Foundations, Language, Texts, and Practices.
What are the domains?
This Big Idea in the Foundations domain involves students learning the relationships between sounds of spoken language and letters of written language.
What is Phonics?
This Big Idea in the Language domain focuses on students observing, analyzing, and using the structures and conventions of Standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.
What are Grammar Conventions?
This Big Idea within the Texts domain involves students describing the influences of purpose and audience on texts.
What is Context?
This Big Idea under the Practices domain focuses on students developing personal and academic identities as readers and writers.
What is Engagement & Intention for Comprehension & Composition?
This term refers to the major concepts or areas of learning within each domain, such as Phonics or Vocabulary.
What is a Big Idea?
Standard 3-5.F.F.1 requires students to demonstrate this skill, reading aloud or silently with speed, accuracy, and expression, to read grade-level texts for understanding.
What is fluency?
This K-12 chart provides a progression of expectations for the Grammar, Usage, & Mechanics standard K-12.L.GC.
What is the GUM Chart?
Standard 3-5.T.T.1 focuses on explaining, analyzing, and using these techniques, such as character, setting, and plot, to shape understandings.
What are narrative techniques?
Standard K-12.P.EICC.3 describes the strategies students should access and use before, during, and after reading as part of this process.
What are comprehension strategies?
Standards applicable to students in grades 3 through 5 often begin with this numeric and letter prefix.
What is 3-5?
In the 3rd Grade Foundations domain, the Handwriting Big Idea focuses on developing skills in this specific writing style.
What is cursive?
According to the 3rd-grade expectations for Standard 3-5.L.V.2, students should deconstruct words using these components, such as roots and affixes, to determine meaning.
What are word analysis skills (or morphology)?
According to Standard 3-5.T.SS.2, 3rd graders should identify, describe, and use this type of language, including similes, metaphors, and idioms.
What is figurative language?
This Big Idea within the Practices domain involves building and sharing knowledge as students engage with others and tailor communication.
What is Collaboration & Presentation?
Expectations formatted in this way are introduced in an earlier grade level and should be continued in the current grade at a higher level of complexity.
What are italicized expectations?
According to Standard 3-5.F.P.4, 3rd graders should use their knowledge of phonics to perform these two actions with grade-level words.
What are decode and encode?
Standard 3-5.L.GC.2 in the Language domain requires students to apply understandings of this to comprehend and compose varied sentences.
What is syntax?
The Research & Inquiry standard (3-5.T.RA.1) requires students to conduct research by locating, gathering, selecting, and organizing information from multiple of these.
What are credible sources?
The Author's Craft Big Idea (K-12.P.AC) involves applying knowledge of author's craft to enhance these two main actions related to texts.
What are interpretation and construction?