Mary C. Elmore
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
CCR Anchor Standards for Reading:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: 7. Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contributes to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g. create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting.)
Key Ideas or Details: 3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events {…} using language that pertains to time, sequence and cause/effect.
CCR Anchor Standards for Writing:
Text Types and Purposes: 3.Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details and clear event sequences.
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a.Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
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b.Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters in situations.
Production and Distribution of Writing:
6. With guidance and support from peers and adults, to develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. Revisiting these writing standards reinforced the importance of students naturally including descriptive conventions in their narrative work and peer and self edit narratives.
CCR Standards for Speaking and Listening:
Comprehension and Collaboration:
1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one–on–one, in groups, and teacher–led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
CCR Standards for Language:
Conventions of Standards English
: 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.