Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.3.A
Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.3.A
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- What is the purpose of your writing?
- Who will be the audience of your writing?
- Use a graphic organizer to gather details and facts about your topic.
- From your graphic organizer, choose the facts and details that you will use in your writing.
- Choose a way to organize your information in the writing. Explain why this is the best way to do it.
- Write a draft of your explanatory/informational essay.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Students should tell whether they are explaining a concept or informing about a topic.
- Students should state who will be reading the writing. It could be written for other students, a teacher, or other adults. Students should keep their audience in mind as they write.
- Students should organize facts and details about their topic onto a graphic organizer. They will refer to this graphic organizer when writing their draft.
- Students should decide which pieces of information would work best to inform/explain their topic. By doing so, they should eliminate the information that isn’t as appropriate or necessary to use.
- Based on the purpose of their writing, their topic and the audience, students should choose an organizational structure for their writing. Some possible choices would be time order, sequence of events or step, cause and effect, or question and answer.
- Students should begin the draft with an opening sentence/paragraph. Students should use the details from their graphic organizer. They use their chosen organizational structure to write the details in a way that clearly presents the information. The writing should end with a closing sentence/paragraph.
