3rd Grade
Writing
Standards
CC.3.W.1 Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
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Essential Questions
Use a graphic organizer to gather support for your opinion on a given topic.
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CC.3.W.1.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
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Write an introduction that includes a topic or text, states an opinion, and organize a list reasons that support my opinion.
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CC.3.W.1.b Text Types and Purposes: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
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Use a graphic organizer to gather support for your opinion on a given topic.
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CC.3.W.1.c Text Types and Purposes: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
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Identify the linking words and phrases you used to connect ideas and reasons.
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CC.3.W.1.d Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section.
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Using you final paper, show why your conclusion is an important part of your opinion piece.
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CC.3.W.2 Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
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CC.3.W.2.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
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Write an informative/explanatory text to examine the topic using the following to support your topic.
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CC.3.W.2.b Text Types and Purposes: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
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Write an informative/explanatory text to examine the topic using the following to support your topic.
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CC.3.W.2.c Text Types and Purposes: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
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Write an informative/explanatory text to examine the topic using the following to support your topic.
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CC.3.W.2.d Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section.
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Write an informative/explanatory text to examine the topic using the following to support your topic.
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CC.3.W.3 Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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CC.3.W.3.a Text Types and Purposes: Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
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Write a real or imaginative narrative story where you
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CC.3.W.3.b Text Types and Purposes: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
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Write a real or imaginative narrative story where you
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CC.3.W.3.c Text Types and Purposes: Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
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Write a real or imaginative narrative story where you
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CC.3.W.3.d Text Types and Purposes: Provide a sense of closure.
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Write a real or imaginative narrative story where you
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CC.3.W.4 Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Create and organize a writing piece that has purpose (narrative, persuasive or expository) and makes sense for my audience.
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CC.3.W.5 Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 3 on page 29.)
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Use the writing process (planning, revising and editing) to develop a piece of writing.
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CC.3.W.6 Production and Distribution of Writing: 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.
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Using technology (keyboarding skills), create a finished paper and collaborate with another classmate or teacher.
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CC.3.W.7 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
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Gather and categorize information and create a research project.
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CC.3.W.8 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
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Gather and categorize information from multiple sources along with your own background knowledge and create a research project.
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CC.3.W.10 Range of Writing: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Write for a long or short period of time on the assigned topic. Consider the task, purpose of your writing and audience (intended reader).
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