{"id":61,"date":"2023-05-08T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusd.dev.apppresser.com\/gomes\/third-grade-curriculum-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:09:51","slug":"third-grade-curriculum-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/students-community\/programs-services\/third-grade-curriculum-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Grade – Curriculum Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Third Grade Guide<\/h2>\n

Writing Assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing Rubric (Based on CA Language Arts Standards) for third grade is described in the following table. A score of 3 meets state and district third grade standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Score<\/th>\nCharacteristics of assessments earning the score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
4<\/th>\n \n
    \n
  • \n
      \n
    • Clearly addresses requirements of the strategies and application (see below).<\/li>\n
    • Responds to prompt with very well-organized paragraph(s) that include a specific topic, engaging beginning, descriptive detailed sentences with elaboration, and an effective conclusion.<\/li>\n
    • Contains few, if any, errors in conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling). These errors do not interfere with the readers understanding of writing.<\/li>\n
    • Includes a variety of sentence types (declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory).<\/li>\n
    • Includes sentence variation (dialogue, beginning with gerund, combing, etc.).<\/li>\n
    • Enriched vocabulary and figurative language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/th>\n \n
    \n
  • \n
      \n
    • Addresses requirements of the strategies and application. (see below)<\/li>\n
    • Responds to prompt with a organized paragraph(s) that include a specific topic, topic sentence, relevant details, and a conclusion.<\/li>\n
    • Writes in complete sentences.<\/li>\n
    • Contains few errors in conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling) These errors do not interfere with the reader’s understanding of writing.<\/li>\n
    • Includes more than one sentence type (declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory)<\/li>\n
    • Includes sentence variation (dialogue, beginning with gerund, combing, etc…)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/th>\n \n
    \n
  • \n
      \n
    • Partially addresses requirements of the strategies and application (see below).<\/li>\n
    • Limited response to prompt. Writing suggests a central idea with limited but mostly relevant details.<\/li>\n
    • Paragraph shows some evidence of correct structure and sequence.<\/li>\n
    • Writes mostly complete sentences.<\/li>\n
    • Contains errors in conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling). These errors may interfere with the readers understanding of writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/th>\n \n
    \n
  • \n
      \n
    • Does not adequately address requirements of the strategies and application (see below).<\/li>\n
    • Response to prompt shows little understanding of purpose. Writing does not suggest a central idea with supporting detail.<\/li>\n
    • No evidence of a logical paragraph plan.<\/li>\n
    • Writes incomplete sentences.<\/li>\n
    • Contains serious errors in conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling). These errors interfere with the readers understanding of writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

      Writing Strategy for Third Grade<\/p>\n

        \n
      • Writing clearly develops a central idea consistent with a given prompt<\/li>\n
      • Penmanship is legible (cursive is recommended)<\/li>\n
      • Writing process is used (pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Applications of Writing Strategy<\/p>\n

          \n
        • Narrative: Provides a context which action takes place (setting, cause and effect, and explanations) includes well-chosen details to develop the plot. Provides insight into why the selected incident is memorable.<\/li>\n
        • Descriptive: Writes a description giving a unified impression of a person, place, thing, or experience using concrete sensory details.<\/li>\n
        • Letter Writing: Writes a personal or formal letter as well as invitation and thank you note showing awareness of audience and clear purpose, includes date, proper salutation, body, closing, and signature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

           <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Third Grade Guide Writing Assessment Writing Rubric (Based on CA Language Arts Standards) for third grade is described in the following table. A score of 3 meets state and district third grade standards. Score Characteristics of assessments earning the score 4   Clearly addresses requirements of the strategies and application (see below). Responds to prompt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190955,"parent":18,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_left_column_singular.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:09:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/gomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}