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Grade-Specific performance indicators
The grade-specific performance indicators that grade 3 students demonstrate
as they learn to speak include:
Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen,
and speak for information and understanding.
• Provide directions
• Ask questions
• Summarize, with assistance
• Describe a problem and suggest one or more solutions
• State a main idea with supporting details
• Present a short oral report, using at least two sources of information,
such as a person, book, magazine article, or electronic text
- speak loudly enough to be heard by the audience
• Use complete sentences, using age- and content-appropriate vocabulary
• Use logical order in presentations
Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
• Present original works, such as stories, poems, and plays, to classmates
• Give book reviews, with assistance
• Describe characters and plot
• Make inferences
• Compare literary texts and performances to personal experiences and
prior knowledge
• Explain cultural and ethnic features in literary texts, with assistance
• Ask questions to clarify and interpret literary texts and performance
• Discuss themes of literary texts, with assistance
• Use complete sentences, correct verb tense, age-appropriate vocabulary,
and logical order in oral presentation
Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
• Explain the reasons for a character’s actions, considering both
the situation and motivation of the character
• Express an opinion or judgment about a character, setting, and plot
in a variety of works
• Discuss the impact of format, illustrations, and titles in evaluating
ideas, information, and experiences
• Express an opinion about school and community issues
• Analyze and evaluate new ideas by using personal experiences and knowledge
• Express an opinion, supporting it with text, about the accuracy of
the content of literary works
• Communicate an interpretation of real or imaginary people or events
through role play
• Use appropriate eye contact and gestures in presentations and responses
• Speak with appropriate rate and volume for the audience
• Take turns speaking in a group
Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
• Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of
the listener when speaking
• Discuss the content of friendly notes, cards, letters, and personal
narrative, with a partner or small group, in order to get to know the writer and each other
• Use the rules of conversation, such as avoid interrupting and respond
respectfully
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