Grade 3
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · TEKS 2017
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language (1)
Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
Follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action.
Speak coherently about the topic under discussion, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively.
Work collaboratively with others by following agreed-upon rules, norms, and protocols.
Develop social communication such as conversing politely in all situations.
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing (2)
Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:: (i) Decoding words with a prosodic or orthographic accent. (ii) Decoding words with multiple sound spelling patterns such as c, k, and q and s, z, soft c, and x. (iii) Decoding words with silent h and words that use the syllables que-, qui-, gue-, gui-, güe-, and güi-. (iv) Becoming very familiar with the concept of hiatus and diphthongs and the implications for orthographic accents. (v) Decoding and differentiating meaning of a word based on a diacritical accent. (vi) Decoding words with prefixes and suffixes.
Demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:: (i) Spelling palabras agudas and graves (words with an accent on the last and penultimate syllable). (ii) Spelling palabras esdrújulas (words with the stress on the antepenultimate syllable) that have an orthographic accent. (iii) Spelling words with the concept of diphthongs and hiatus and their implications for orthographic accents. (iv) Using accents on words commonly used in questions and exclamations. (v) Spelling words based on the diacritical accent such as se/sé, el/él, and mas/más. (vi) Marking accents appropriately when conjugating verbs such as in simple and imperfect past, past participle, perfect, conditional, and future tenses; Page 20 August 2019 Update. (vii) Spelling words with silent h and words that use the syllables que-, qui-, gue-, gui-, güe-, and güi-. (viii) Spelling words that have the same sounds represented by different letters, including ll and y; c, k, and q; soft c, soft x, s, and z; and soft g, j, and x. (ix) Spelling words with hard and soft r. (x) Spelling words using n before v; m before b; and m before p; (xi) spelling words with sílabas trabadas; and (xii) spelling the plural form of words ending in z by replacing the z with c before adding -es.
Alphabetize a series of words to the third letter.
Write complete words, thoughts, and answers legibly in cursive leaving appropriate spaces between words.
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary (3)
Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation.
Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple-meaning words.
Identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as in-, des-, ex-, -mente, -dad, - oso, -eza, and -ura, and know how the affix changes the meaning of the word.
Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.
Differentiate between and use homographs, homophones, and commonly confused terms such as porque/porqué/por qué/por que, sino/si no, and también/tan bien.
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency (4)
Use appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) when reading grade-level text.
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading (5)
Self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts (6)
Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts.
Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
Make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures.
Create mental images to deepen understanding.
Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
Evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
Synthesize information to create new understanding; and August 2019 Update Page 21 §128.A. Elementary.
Monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts (7)
Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
Write a response to a literary or informational text that demonstrates an understanding of a text.
Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
Retell and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.
Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
Discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements (8)
Infer the theme of a work, distinguishing theme from topic.
Explain the relationships among the major and minor characters.
Analyze plot elements, including the sequence of events, the conflict, and the resolution.
Explain the influence of the setting on the plot.
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres (9)
Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths.
Explain rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as stanzas in a variety of poems.
Discuss elements of drama such as characters, dialogue, setting, and acts.
Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:: (i) The central idea with supporting evidence. (ii) Features such as sections, tables, graphs, timelines, bullets, numbers, and bold and italicized font to support understanding. (iii) Organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution.
Recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:: (i) Identifying the claim. (ii) Distinguishing facts from opinion. (iii) Identifying the intended audience or reader.
Recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts. Page 22 August 2019 Update.
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts (10)
Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
Explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose.
Explain the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile, and sound devices such as onomatopoeia achieves specific purposes.
Identify the use of literary devices, including first-or third-person point of view.
Discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice.
Identify and explain the use of hyperbole.
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process (11)
Plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping.
Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:: (i) Organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction and a conclusion. (ii) Developing an engaging idea with relevant details.
Revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity.
Edit drafts using standard Spanish conventions, including:: (i) Complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement. (ii) Verb tense such as simple past, present, and future and imperfect past, past participle, perfect, and conditional, including the difference between ser and estar. (iii) Singular, plural, common, and proper nouns, including gender-specific articles. (iv) Adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms. (v) Adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner. (vi) Prepositions and prepositional phrases. (vii) Pronouns, including personal, possessive, objective, and reflexive pronouns. (viii) Coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences. (ix) Capitalization of proper nouns, geographical names and places, historical periods, and official titles of people. (x) Punctuation marks, including commas in a series and dates that include the day of the week, and correct mechanics, including indentations; and (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules; and August 2019 Update Page 23 §128.A. Elementary.
Publish written work for appropriate audiences.
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres (12)
Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft.
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft.
Compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft.
Compose correspondence such as thank you notes or letters.
Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts (13)
Generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry.
Develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance.
Identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources.
Identify primary and secondary sources.
Demonstrate understanding of information gathered.
Recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials.
Create a works cited page.
Use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.