Only Grade 3 english language arts is shown here. Current and transition frameworks remain separate. A provisional target is not proof that every clause is taught or assessed.
English language arts · 2017 framework
Grade 3 · 42 / 44 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RL.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. |
| ela-2017:RL.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2017:RL.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. |
| ela-2017:RL.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. |
| ela-2017:RL.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. |
| ela-2017:RL.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the difference between points of view in texts, particularly first- and third-person narration. |
| ela-2017:RL.3.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., emphasize aspects of a character or setting). |
| ela-2017:RL.3.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2017:RL.3.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). |
| ela-2017:RL.3.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish their own perspective from that of the author of a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). |
| ela-2017:RI.3.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the relationships between the evidence and points an author uses throughout a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. |
| ela-2017:RI.3.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:RF.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. |
| ela-2017:RF.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. |
| ela-2017:W.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. |
| ela-2017:W.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. |
| ela-2017:W.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. |
| ela-2017:W.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.) |
| ela-2017:W.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3.) |
| ela-2017:W.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills), as well as to interact and collaborate with others. |
| ela-2017:W.3.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. |
| ela-2017:W.3.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. |
| ela-2017:W.3.9 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in grade 4) |
| ela-2017:W.3.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
| ela-2017:SL.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:SL.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. |
| ela-2017:SL.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail. |
| ela-2017:SL.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace. |
| ela-2017:SL.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details. |
| ela-2017:SL.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) |
| ela-2017:L.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2017:L.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2017:L.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. |
| ela-2017:L.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. |
| ela-2017:L.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2017:L.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night, we went looking for them). |
English language arts · 2026 framework
Grade 3 · 45 / 47 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2026:RL.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of a literary text (story, drama, or poem). |
| ela-2026:RL.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the development of a literary text. |
| ela-2026:RL.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the characters in a literary text. |
| ela-2026:RL.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. |
| ela-2026:RL.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the major differences in the structural elements of stories, dramas, and poems, using terms such as chapters, scenes, and stanzas. |
| ela-2026:RL.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish between first- and third-person point of view using text evidence. |
| ela-2026:RL.3.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations support or expand a literary text (e.g., emphasize aspects of a character or setting). |
| ela-2026:RL.3.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2026:RL.3.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and/or contrast the themes, settings, and plots of literary texts by the same author or written about similar characters. |
| ela-2026:RL.3.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Read and comprehend grade-level literary text, with scaffolding as needed. Use prior knowledge and previous experiences to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of an informational text (e.g., historical, scientific, or technical texts). |
| ela-2026:RI.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the development of an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how the text structure contributes to the meaning of the text. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of general academic or domain-specific words and phrases in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Use text features (such as headings, labels, charts, graphs, legends, key words, sidebars, and hyperlinks) to locate information. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify perspectives in the text. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Use information gained from nonfiction text features (e.g., table of contents, maps, illustrations, index, and glossary) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). |
| ela-2026:RI.3.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the connection between the points the author makes, and the evidence provided to support those points. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and/or contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. |
| ela-2026:RI.3.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Read and comprehend grade-level informational texts, with scaffolding and support as needed. Use prior knowledge and previous experiences to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2026:RF.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | |
| ela-2026:RF.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Read texts with sufficient fluency to support comprehension. |
| ela-2026:WF.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write legibly in manuscript and/or cursive. |
| ela-2026:WF.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | |
| ela-2026:WF.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write complete sentences that demonstrate knowledge of conventions. |
| ela-2026:W.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write opinion pieces that include: |
| ela-2026:W.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory pieces that include: |
| ela-2026:W.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives that develop real or imagined sequenced events including: |
| ela-2026:W.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | With gradually fading adult support, produce writing, collaboratively and independently, in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
| ela-2026:W.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With gradually fading adult support, plan, revise, and edit writing to improve clarity, organization, and conventions (e.g., capitalization, punctuation, spelling), using feedback from adults or peers. |
| ela-2026:W.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | With gradually fading adult support, use a variety of digital skills (e.g., keyboarding) and tools (e.g., multimedia platforms) to produce and publish writing. |
| ela-2026:W.3.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Engage in brief research projects, collaboratively and independently, by: |
| ela-2026:W.3.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Recall information from personal experiences or gather information from sources to: |
| ela-2026:W.3.9 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in Grade 4) |
| ela-2026:W.3.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely in a single session and/or over multiple sessions; engage in planning, drafting, editing, and revising for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
| ela-2026:SL.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Participate in discussions about third grade topics and texts in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings. |
| ela-2026:SL.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | After a presentation (i.e., read-aloud, multimedia, oral), use speaking or writing to identify the main ideas and key details, including information shown in text features such as charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, or images. |
| ela-2026:SL.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and/or answer questions about what a speaker says to request and provide elaboration and detail. |
| ela-2026:SL.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Tell a story, give a report, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, while speaking clearly at an understandable pace. |
| ela-2026:SL.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Create multimedia presentations of stories or poems; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize the development of main ideas or themes. |
| ela-2026:SL.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify formal language versus informal language used in various speaking or listening situations or contexts. |
| ela-2026:L.3.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply formal American English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2026:L.3.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply the conventions of formal American English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2026:L.3.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. |
| ela-2026:L.3.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Use word analysis skills to break down and build grade-appropriate words to understand their meaning. |
| ela-2026:L.3.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2026:L.3.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and read-alouds, including those that signal feelings and actions (e.g., He felt proud when he finished his difficult homework assignment). |