Expository Writing - Composition
3rd Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.20*
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Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.20.A*
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create brief compositions that:
- establish a central idea in a topic sentence;
- include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and
- contain a concluding statement;
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Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.2.a
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.2a
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W2a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.2.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.2a
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.2.b
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Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W2a
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Introduce a topic and organize related information together. |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
W.3.2.a
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Introduce a topic and group related
information together; include illustrations to
aid comprehension, if needed. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.2.a
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Introduce a topic.
3.W.TTP.2.b - Group related information together, including illustrations when needed, to provide clarity to the reader. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.3.a
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Organization: Include an introduction that establishes a purpose and provides a concluding statement appropriate to the mode of writing. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
35
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Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, using an introduction, logical reasoning supported by evidence from various sources, and a conclusion. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.2.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.2b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W2b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.2.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.2b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.2.c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.2.c
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Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W2b
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Develop a topic with facts, definitions, and details; include illustrations when useful
for aiding comprehension. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.2.b
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Informative or explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts, definitions, and details to develop points. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.2.c
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.2c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W2c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.2.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.2c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.2.e
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Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information. |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.2.d
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W2d
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Use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information. |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
W.3.2.c
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Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also,
another, and, more, but) to connect ideas
within categories of information. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.3.b
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Transitions: Use prompts, words, and phrases to signal event order and to link and build connections between ideas, text, and events. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
34
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Write informative or explanatory texts about a topic using sources, including an introduction, facts, relevant details with elaboration, and a conclusion. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
W.3.2.F
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.2.d
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.2d
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W2d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.2.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.2d
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.2.e
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W2e
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.2.d
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Provide a concluding statement or section. |
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
W.3.2.d
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Provide a conclusion. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.a
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Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.b
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Identify and introduce the topic. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.c
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Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, and illustrations,as appropriate |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.d
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Create an organizational structure that includes information grouped and connected logically with a concluding statement or section. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.e
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Choose words and phrases for effect.
- E03.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases for effect.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.f
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
- E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
- E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
- E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
- E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
- E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
- E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
- E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
- E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
- E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
- E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
- E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
- E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
- E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
- E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
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