British Columbia
Skills available for British Columbia grade 3 English language arts curriculum
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- British Columbia Learning Standards British Columbia Learning Standards
- British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Reading and Viewing British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Reading and Viewing
- British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Writing and Representing British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Writing and Representing
- WNCP Common Curriculum Frameworks WNCP Common Curriculum Frameworks
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3.CC Curricular Competencies
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3.CC.1 Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
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3.CC.1.1 Read fluently at grade level
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3.CC.1.2 Use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning
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3.CC.1.3 Make connections between ideas from a variety of sources and prior knowledge to build understanding
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3.CC.1.4 Use developmentally appropriate reading, listening, and viewing strategies to make meaning
- Draw inferences from a text (3-M.2)
- Make predictions about a story (3-M.3)
- Read fantasy with illustrations (3-P.1)
- Read historical fiction with illustrations (3-P.2)
- Read science fiction with illustrations (3-P.3)
- Read realistic fiction with illustrations (3-P.4)
- Read realistic fiction: set 1 (3-Q.1)
- Read realistic fiction: set 2 (3-Q.2)
- Read poetry (3-Q.3)
- Read about food (3-R.2)
- Read about art, music and traditions (3-R.3)
- Read about sports and hobbies (3-R.4)
- Read about business and technology (3-S.3)
- Read about science and nature (3-S.4)
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3.CC.1.5 Recognize how different texts reflect different purposes.
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3.CC.1.6 Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity, and community
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3.CC.1.7 Explain the role that story plays in personal, family, and community identity
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3.CC.1.8 Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning
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3.CC.1.9 Recognize the structure and elements of story
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3.CC.1.10 Show awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to family and community
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3.CC.1.11 Develop awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land
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3.CC.2 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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3.CC.2.1 Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
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3.CC.2.2 Create stories and other texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community
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3.CC.2.3 Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences
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3.CC.2.4 Communicate using sentences and most conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Use coordinating conjunctions (3-W.3)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (3-W.4)
- Homophones with pictures (3-EE.1)
- Use the correct homophone (3-EE.3)
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation? (3-KK.1)
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (3-LL.5)
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (3-LL.6)
- Form and use irregular plurals (3-LL.8)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (3-LL.10)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (3-LL.11)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (3-MM.2)
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun (3-MM.3)
- Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (3-MM.4)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (3-MM.7)
- Use reflexive pronouns (3-MM.8)
- Use action verbs (3-NN.1)
- Use the correct subject or verb (3-OO.2)
- Pronoun-verb agreement (3-OO.3)
- Form and use the regular past tense (3-PP.3)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 (3-PP.6)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 (3-PP.7)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 (3-PP.8)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 (3-PP.9)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5 (3-PP.10)
- To be: use the correct form (3-PP.11)
- To have: use the correct form (3-PP.12)
- Change the sentence to future tense (3-PP.14)
- Use the correct article: a or an (3-QQ.1)
- Use the correct article: a, an or the (3-QQ.2)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (3-RR.6)
- Use adjectives to compare (3-RR.8)
- Spell adjectives that compare (3-RR.9)
- Use adverbs to compare (3-RR.10)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (3-UU.1)
- Contractions with "not" (3-UU.2)
- Commas with dates (3-VV.1)
- Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words (3-VV.2)
- Greetings and closings of letters (3-XX.1)
- Punctuating dialogue (3-XX.5)
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3.CC.2.5 Develop and apply expanding word knowledge
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes (3-Z.1)
- Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis- (3-Z.2)
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis- (3-Z.3)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less (3-Z.4)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness (3-Z.5)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment (3-Z.6)
- Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review (3-Z.7)
- Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review (3-Z.8)
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (3-AA.1)
- Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (3-AA.2)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (3-AA.3)
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3.CC.2.6 Explore and appreciate aspects of First Peoples oral traditions
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3.CC.2.7 Use oral storytelling processes
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3.C Content
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3.C.1 Story/text
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3.C.1.1 elements of story
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3.C.1.2 functions and genres of stories and other texts
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3.C.1.3 text features
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3.C.1.4 literary elements and devices
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3.C.2 Strategies and processes
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3.C.2.1 reading strategies
- Use key details to determine the main idea (3-F.1)
- Determine the main idea of a passage (3-F.2)
- Make predictions about a story (3-M.3)
- Read fantasy with illustrations (3-P.1)
- Read historical fiction with illustrations (3-P.2)
- Read science fiction with illustrations (3-P.3)
- Read realistic fiction with illustrations (3-P.4)
- Read realistic fiction: set 1 (3-Q.1)
- Read realistic fiction: set 2 (3-Q.2)
- Read poetry (3-Q.3)
- Read about food (3-R.2)
- Read about art, music and traditions (3-R.3)
- Read about sports and hobbies (3-R.4)
- Read about business and technology (3-S.3)
- Read about science and nature (3-S.4)
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (3-II.1)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (3-II.2)
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3.C.2.2 oral language strategies
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3.C.2.3 metacognitive strategies
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3.C.2.4 writing processes
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3.C.3 Language features, structures, and conventions
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3.C.3.1 features of oral language
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3.C.3.2 word patterns, word families
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes (3-Z.1)
- Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis- (3-Z.2)
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis- (3-Z.3)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less (3-Z.4)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness (3-Z.5)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment (3-Z.6)
- Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review (3-Z.7)
- Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review (3-Z.8)
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (3-AA.1)
- Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (3-AA.2)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (3-AA.3)
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3.C.3.3 legible handwriting
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3.C.3.4 sentence structure
- Use coordinating conjunctions (3-W.3)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (3-W.4)
- Identify the complete subject of a sentence (3-KK.2)
- Identify the complete predicate of a sentence (3-KK.3)
- Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence (3-KK.4)
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (3-KK.5)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (3-KK.6)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (3-KK.7)
- Is the sentence simple or compound? (3-KK.8)
- Order the words to create a sentence (3-KK.9)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (3-TT.1)
- Identify subordinating conjunctions (3-TT.2)
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3.C.3.5 conventions
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