CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.A: Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.B: Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.C: Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.D: Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.E: Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.F: Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.G: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.H: Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.I: Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.A: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.B: Use commas in addresses.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.C: Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.D: Form and use possessives.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.E: Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.F: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.G: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.3.A: Choose words and phrases for effect.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.3.B: Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.A: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.B: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.C: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.D: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.A: Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.B: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.C: Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).