RSU 5 Standards and Performance Indicators
Grade 3
Habits of Work
Respect
- Respect: respect for the ideas, feelings, and property of others
Preparedness
- Preparedness: timeliness, organization, homework completion
Engagement
- Engagement: participation, interpersonal involvement, group-work
Determination
- Determination: ability to self-assess; persistence, effective use of feedback
Reading
Foundational Skills
Phonics and Word Recognition
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Fluency
- Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Writing Production
- Handwrites with appropriate alignment and size, form, neatness and spacing
Spelling
- Uses visual as well as sound patterns to spell one syllable words
Narrative Reading
Literal Comprehension
- Summarize the parts of the story that relate to what she's reading.
- Summarizes in a way that demonstrates what she knows about the story and its story elements.
- Identifies the characters—their traits and wants— and recaps important events using sequence words
- Identifies the problem and solution.
Interpretive Reading
- Identifies the big life lesson (the theme), noticing how a character changes across the story.
- Identifies how major events across several books are similar or different.
- Supports thinking with evidence from the text.
Analytic Reading
- Reads to get ideas and information about the world. Learns about places, growing ideas about families, or friendships.
Informational Reading
Literal Comprehension
- Identifies the main idea in text.
- Identifies important supporting details (or points) that go with the main idea.
- Summarizes briefly, leaving out unimportant things.
Interpretive Reading
- Reads two texts (or parts of a text) that teach about the same subtopic, and finds information on a subtopic from both texts (or parts of one text), and puts that information together.
- Compares and contrasts the information that two texts (or parts of a text) teach about a topic.
- Identifies similarities and differences in the specific information each text presents.
Analytic Reading
- Summarizes a text and adds own ideas in writing or discussion. For example, the reader might ask a question and try to answer it.
- Applies learning to a real-world problem or situation.
- Notices when learning doesn’t match prior knowledge/ experience, and thinks about what to make of that.
Writing
Narrative Writing
Structure
- Writing is organized according to purpose with a beginning, middle, and end
Development
- Pieces are elaborated to include a variety of details, talk, and action
Conventions
- Applies spelling and punctuation in written work
Informational Writing
Structure
- Writing teaches readers information about a subject that includes ideas, observations, and questions.
- Information is grouped into parts
- Each part is focused and connected to the big topic.
Development
- Writing includes expert words to teach readers a lot about the subject.
- Writing teaches information in a way to interest readers. Writing may include drawings, captions, or diagrams.
Conventions
- Applies spelling and punctuation in written work
Opinion Writing
Structure
- Writing includes an opinion and ideas on a text or a topic
- Writing includes several reasons or examples why readers should agree with the stated opinion and includes at least several sentences about each reason.
- Writing is organized so that each part of writing is mostly about one thing.
Development
- Writing includes an opinion and multiple sentences to explain supporting reasons
Conventions
- Applies spelling and punctuation in written work
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
- 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.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- 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.
- 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.
Math
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
- Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division
- Multiply and divide within 100
- Solve two step word problems involving the four operations
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Use place value and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
Numbers and Operations - Fractions
- Develop an understanding of fractions as numbers
Measurement and Data
- Solve problems involving measurement and estimation
- Represent and interpret data
- Understand concepts of area and its relationship to addition and multiplication
- Solve problems involving perimeter
Geometry
- Reason with shapes and their attributes
Communication and Reasoning
- Demonstrate Standards for Mathematical Practices
Science
Demonstrates Understanding of Science Content
Demonstrates Scientific Practices
Social Studies
Demonstrates understanding of social studies content
Applies social studies processes, knowledge and skills
Music
- Singing
- Playing Instruments
- Reading music
- Listening
Physical Education
- Participates in physical fitness activities
- Demonstrates a variety of sports skills
- Demonstrates cooperative skills during physical activities.
Art
- Demonstrates understanding of art concepts
- Demonstrates creative problem solving
- Demonstrates art skills
Technology
- Demonstrates understanding of concepts taught