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Expository Writing - Composition

3rd Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 3.20*

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*

create brief compositions that:
  1. establish a central idea in a topic sentence;
  2. include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and
  3. contain a concluding statement;

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

Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W2a

Introduce a topic and organize related information together.

Ohio's Learning Standards: W.3.2.a

Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations to aid comprehension, if needed.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.2.a

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

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

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

Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W2b

Develop a topic with facts, definitions, and details; include illustrations when useful for aiding comprehension.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: W.3.2.b

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

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

Use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information.

Ohio's Learning Standards: W.3.2.c

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

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

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

Provide a concluding statement or section.

New Jersey Student Learning Standards: W.3.2.d

Provide a conclusion.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.a

Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.b

Identify and introduce the topic.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.c

Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, and illustrations,as appropriate

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.d

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

Choose words and phrases for effect.
  • E03.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases for effect.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.f

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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