South Dakota ELA 3.W.3

3.W.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 3.W.3.a

  Establish a situation and/or setting; introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

• 3.W.3.b

  Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of charact...

• 3.W.3.d

  Provide a sense of conclusion (when appropriate to the genre).

01

What Students Need to Do

Students write a story, poem, or short play about a real or made-up event. They introduce the place or people and put events in a clear order. They add details about actions and feelings, use time words, and give the piece an ending when it needs one.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A reader can tell who is involved and follow what happens first, next, and last. The writer uses specific actions, thoughts, or dialogue to show how a character reacts. The piece closes in a way that fits its form.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may list events with repeated 'and then' but leave out what anyone says or feels. They may bring in a new character without introducing them, or stop at the biggest event without showing what happened next.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Write five sentences about finding a lost mitten. Name the place and character, show two events in order with a time word, add a feeling or line of dialogue, and end the story.

1. 01

   Give pairs three event cards, 'lost dog,' 'searched park,' and 'found dog'; have them order the cards and add a feeling to each.

2. 02

   Have students write two lines of dialogue for a child who finds a kitten in a box, then explain what those lines reveal.

3. 03

   Play transition swap: replace each 'then' in 'I woke up, then ate, then walked to school, then sat down' with a different time phrase.

4. 04

   Ask students to write about spilling a drink at lunch, showing what happened next, how someone reacted, and how they cleaned up.

• 6.W.3

  Write narratives and other creative texts (e.g. poetry, graphic stories, digital compositions, memoirs) to develop real or imagined experiences or events using ...

• 5.W.3

  Write narratives (story, poetry, or drama) to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and clear ...

• 7.W.3

  Write narratives and other creative texts (e.g. poetry, graphic stories, digital composition, memoirs) to develop real or imagined experiences or events using e...