CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.6
The Standard
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).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Language Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students learn and use words suited to third-grade conversations, reading, and subject lessons. They choose words and phrases that clearly show where things are and when events happen.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose words that fit the topic, audience, and sentence. They accurately use words such as compare, habitat, beneath, nearby, earlier, and afterward when speaking and writing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may know a word when reading but use it incorrectly in speech or writing. They may confuse spatial words such as between and beside, or sequence words such as before and after.
How to Assess It
- Give students a picture and three events. Ask them to write two sentences using one precise vocabulary word, one spatial word, and one time-order word.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Students position classroom objects beside, beneath, between, and above one another, then write a sentence describing each arrangement.
Ask students to explain a familiar routine using at least three time-order words and two precise topic words.
Play vocabulary charades with academic and subject words, awarding a point when teammates use the guessed word in a correct sentence.
Students write directions from the classroom to the cafeteria using landmarks, spatial words, and time-order words.
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