Appendix: Implementing District Standards
Pennsylvania Common Core State Standards
In the state of Pennsylvania, the Common Core State Standards play a major role in planning and educating the youth in our classrooms. The following standards focus on two subject areas (Reading and Writing). Although the two subjects are different, they can be used in accordance with one another to enhance the literacy skills of third graders. Items 1.1, 1.3 and 1.4 are the overall standard. Individual items are listed below, with clear objectives/targets for student learning.
1.1 Foundational Skills
Students gain a working knowledge of concepts of print, alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions. These foundational skills are not an end in and of themselves; rather, students apply them as effective readers.
1.3 Reading Literature
Students read and respond to works of literature—with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with a focus on textual evidence.
1.4 Writing
Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.
Reading-Foundational Skills
CC.1.1.3.D-Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CC.1.1.2.E-Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
Reading-Reading Literature
CC.1.3.3.A-Determine the central lesson, or moral in literary text; explain how it is conveyed in text.
CC.1.3.3.B-Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text, referring to text to support responses.
CC.1.3.3.D-Explain the point of view of the author.
CC.1.3.3.E-Refer to parts of texts when writing or speaking about a text using such terms as chapter, scene, and stanza and describe how each successive part builds upon earlier sections.
CC.1.3.3.F-Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade- level text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral meaning as well as shades of meaning among related words. CC.1.3.3.I-Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
CC.1.3.3.J-Acquire and use accurately grade- appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
Writing
CC.1.4.3.M-Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.
CC.1.4.3.N-Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.
CC.1.4.3.P-Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using temporal words and phrases to signal event order; provide a sense of closure.
CC1.4.3.Q-Choose words and phrases for effect.
CC.1.4.3.R-Demonstrate a grade- appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
CC.1.4.3.S-Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and informational texts.
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