Skill plan for the Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress - 3rd grade
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R.L - Reading: Literature
Key Ideas and Details
Key Ideas and Details
IC.3.R.L.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Story elements
Reading comprehension
Poetry
IC.3.R.L.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Story elements
Reading comprehension
Poetry
IC.3.R.L.2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
IC.3.R.L.2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
IC.3.R.L.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
IC.3.R.L.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Craft and Structure
Craft and Structure
IC.3.R.L.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
IC.3.R.L.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
IC.3.R.L.5: 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.
IC.3.R.L.5: 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.
IC.3.R.L.6: Distinguish their own point of view (perspective) from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
IC.3.R.L.6: Distinguish their own point of view (perspective) from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
IC.3.R.L.7: Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
IC.3.R.L.7: Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
IC.3.R.L.9: 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).
IC.3.R.L.9: 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).
R.I - Reading: Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
Key Ideas and Details
IC.3.R.I.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
IC.3.R.I.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
IC.3.R.I.2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Main idea
Reading comprehension
IC.3.R.I.2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Main idea
Reading comprehension
IC.3.R.I.3: 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.
Sequence
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Text structure
IC.3.R.I.3: 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.
Sequence
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Text structure
Craft and Structure
Craft and Structure
IC.3.R.I.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
IC.3.R.I.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
IC.3.R.I.5: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
IC.3.R.I.5: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
IC.3.R.I.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
IC.3.R.I.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
IC.3.R.I.7: 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).
IC.3.R.I.7: 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).
IC.3.R.I.8: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Sequence
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Text structure
IC.3.R.I.8: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Sequence
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Text structure
IC.3.R.I.9: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
IC.3.R.I.9: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Writing and Language
W - Writing
Text Types and Purposes
Text Types and Purposes
IC.3.W.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
IC.3.W.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
IC.3.W.1.a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
IC.3.W.1.a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
IC.3.W.1.b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
IC.3.W.1.b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
IC.3.W.1.c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
Conjunctions
Transitions
IC.3.W.1.c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
Conjunctions
Transitions
IC.3.W.1.d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
IC.3.W.1.d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
IC.3.W.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
IC.3.W.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
IC.3.W.2.a: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Topic sentences
Organization
IC.3.W.2.a: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Topic sentences
Organization
IC.3.W.2.b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
IC.3.W.2.b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
IC.3.W.2.c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
Conjunctions
Transitions
IC.3.W.2.c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
Conjunctions
Transitions
IC.3.W.2.d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
IC.3.W.2.d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
IC.3.W.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
IC.3.W.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
IC.3.W.3.a: Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
IC.3.W.3.a: Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
IC.3.W.3.b: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
IC.3.W.3.b: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
IC.3.W.3.c: Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
IC.3.W.3.c: Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
IC.3.W.3.d: Provide a sense of closure.
IC.3.W.3.d: Provide a sense of closure.
Production and Distribution of Writing
Production and Distribution of Writing
IC.3.W.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Author's purpose
Organization
IC.3.W.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Author's purpose
Organization
IC.3.W.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
Sentence structure
Possessives
Capitalization
Correct common errors
Punctuation
Revision
Word choice
Combine sentences
IC.3.W.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
Sentence structure
Possessives
Capitalization
Correct common errors
Punctuation
Revision
Word choice
Combine sentences
IC.3.W.6: 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.
IC.3.W.6: 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.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
IC.3.W.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
IC.3.W.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
IC.3.W.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
IC.3.W.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
L - Language
Conventions of Standard English
Conventions of Standard English
IC.3.L.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
IC.3.L.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
IC.3.L.1.a: Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
IC.3.L.1.a: Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
IC.3.L.1.b: Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
IC.3.L.1.b: Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
IC.3.L.1.c: Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
IC.3.L.1.c: Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
IC.3.L.1.d: Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Irregular past tense
Action verbs
To be
To have
IC.3.L.1.d: Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Irregular past tense
Action verbs
To be
To have
IC.3.L.1.e: Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
IC.3.L.1.e: Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
IC.3.L.1.f: Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
IC.3.L.1.f: Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
IC.3.L.1.g: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
IC.3.L.1.g: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
IC.3.L.1.h: Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
IC.3.L.1.h: Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
IC.3.L.1.i: Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Subjects and predicates
Sentence structure
Compound sentences
IC.3.L.1.i: Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Subjects and predicates
Sentence structure
Compound sentences
IC.3.L.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
IC.3.L.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
IC.3.L.2.a: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
IC.3.L.2.a: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
IC.3.L.2.b: Use commas in addresses.
IC.3.L.2.b: Use commas in addresses.
IC.3.L.2.c: Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
IC.3.L.2.c: Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
IC.3.L.2.d: Form and use possessives.
IC.3.L.2.d: Form and use possessives.
IC.3.L.2.e: Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
Word patterns
Homophones
Regular plurals
Irregular plurals
Regular past tense
Irregular past tense
Contractions
IC.3.L.2.e: Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
Word patterns
Homophones
Regular plurals
Irregular plurals
Regular past tense
Irregular past tense
Contractions
IC.3.L.2.f: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
Word patterns
Regular plurals
Regular past tense
Contractions
Comparative adjectives
IC.3.L.2.f: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
Word patterns
Regular plurals
Regular past tense
Contractions
Comparative adjectives
IC.3.L.2.g: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
IC.3.L.2.g: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
Knowledge of Language
Knowledge of Language
IC.3.L.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
IC.3.L.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
IC.3.L.3.a: Choose words and phrases for effect.
Descriptive details
Synonyms and antonyms
Shades of meaning
IC.3.L.3.a: Choose words and phrases for effect.
Descriptive details
Synonyms and antonyms
Shades of meaning
IC.3.L.3.b: Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
IC.3.L.3.b: Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
IC.3.L.4: 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.
IC.3.L.4: 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.
IC.3.L.4.a: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Vocabulary in context
Multiple-meaning words
IC.3.L.4.a: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Vocabulary in context
Multiple-meaning words
IC.3.L.4.b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Prefixes
Suffixes
Prefixes and suffixes
IC.3.L.4.b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Prefixes
Suffixes
Prefixes and suffixes
IC.3.L.4.c: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
IC.3.L.4.c: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
IC.3.L.4.d: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
IC.3.L.4.d: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
IC.3.L.5: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
IC.3.L.5: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
IC.3.L.5.a: Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
IC.3.L.5.a: Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
IC.3.L.5.b: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
Character descriptions
Action verbs
Adjectives
IC.3.L.5.b: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
Character descriptions
Action verbs
Adjectives
IC.3.L.5.c: Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
IC.3.L.5.c: Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
IC.3.L.6: 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).
Linking words
Homophones
Academic vocabulary
Domain-specific vocabulary
IC.3.L.6: 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).
Linking words
Homophones
Academic vocabulary
Domain-specific vocabulary
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