This year, consider the writing bar officially raised. Your child’s stories will amaze you, showing character development and dialogue. Your child’s opinion pieces and informational writing will be more organized and thorough. With this blossoming of writing prowess, your child will be using more sophisticated language, improved grammar, and overall heightened mastery of the form from beginning to end.
Under the Common Core Standards, third graders are expected to use books, websites, and other digital sources (think electronic newspaper records at the library) to do research projects and to build knowledge about different topics — both on their own and as part of group work with their peers. But there’s a new, research-based twist this year: taking notes. Third graders need to start writing down what they learn from each source they use, keeping track of the source name and page so they are able to find it again, and then practice sorting any evidence they find into relevant categories that, at this stage, the teacher will likely determine. |
OpinionW.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons..
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InformativeW.3.2 Write informative or explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
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NarrativesW.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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