Appendix:Implementing District Standards
English Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools - January 2017
The Standards of Learning (SOL) for Virginia Public Schools establish minimum expectations for what students should know and be able to do at the end of each grade or course in English, mathematics, science, history/social science and other subjects. In 2010 and 2011, The Board of Education followed the commonwealth’s established process for adopting and revising the Standards of Learning to ensure that instructional standards in Virginia public schools equal or exceed those for schools in states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards.
Writing
3.8 The student will write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, opinion, and expository.
a) Engage in writing as a process.
b) Identify audience and purpose.
c) Use a variety of prewriting strategies.
e) Write a clear topic sentence focusing on main idea.
f) Elaborate writing by including supporting details.
g) Use transition words to vary sentence structure.
i) Write a well-developed paragraph focusing on the main idea.
j) Revise writing for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information.
This unit is particularly focused on the writing process; indicators 3.8 a-c, e-g, i and j will be assessed throughout the six weeks of the unit as students draft, revise, and edit their essays.
3.9 The student will edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and Standard English.
a) Use complete sentences.
b) Use the word I in compound subjects.
c) Use past and present verb tense.
d) Use adjectives correctly.
e) Use singular possessives.
f) Use commas in a simple series.
h) Use apostrophes in contractions with pronouns and in possessives.
i) Use the articles a, an, and the correctly.
j) Use correct spelling including irregular plurals.
k) Indicate paragraphing by indenting or skipping a line.
Students’ published essays will take into account indicators 3.9 a-f, and h-k as they focus on capitalization, punctuation, and spelling; the final step of the writing process is publishing. After this is done, all of these things should be covered.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards 3rd Grade Writing
The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic standards adopted by 43 states . The standards are meant to prepare students for college and careers and to make the US more competitive academically. They're benchmarks for what students should know and be able to do in math and language arts from kindergarten through senior year of high school.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
This unit is particularly focused on the writing process; the standards above will be assessed throughout the six weeks of the unit as students draft, revise, and edit their essays. Students’ published essays will take into account the above standards as they focus on the components of writer’s workshop; one of the main areas of focus for this unit.
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