Write a persuasive letter to your family asking for your favorite foods on a special occasion, such as your birthday. Write a letter to a pen pal in another country describing your family, school, and town and asking the pen pal questions about him- or herself. Write an invitation asking an adult to come to speak in the classroom.
3.4.6 Write responses to literature that demonstrate an understanding of what is read and support statements with evidence from the text. EXAMPLE(S): Write a description of a favorite character in a book. Include examples from the book to show why this character is such a favorite 337.
STANDARD 4 LANGUAGE ARTS/READING
Standard 4: Writing Purposes, Processes, and Strategies
Students use a wide range of strategies and resources to gather and synthesize information and use a variety of writing processes to create and communicate knowledge with a variety of audiences for different purposes.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
GRADE THREE-REVISION AND EVALUATION
3.4.7 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity. EXAMPLE(S): Revise writing for others to read, improving the focus and progression of ideas.
3.4.8 Proofread one’ own writing, as well as that of others, using an editing checklist or list of grammar rules.
Standard 5: Language Structure and Language Conventions
Students apply knowledge of language structure and language conventions to create, critique, and discuss texts.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
GRADE THREE-LANGUAGE STRUCTURE
3.5.1 Write correctly complete sentences of statement, command, question, or exclamation, with final punctuation. Example(s):
• Declarative: This tastes very good.
• Imperative: Please take your seats.
• Interrogative: Are we there yet?
• Exclamatory: It’s a home run!
3.5.2 Identify and use subject and verb agreement (we are instead of we is) and verb tenses properly in writing.
EXAMPLE(S): Identify and use past (he danced), present (he dances), and future (he will dance) verb tenses
properly in writing.
3.5.3 Identify and correctly use pronouns (it, him, her), adjectives (brown eyes, two younger sisters), compound noun , (snowflakes), and articles (a, an, the) in writing.
GRADE THREE-LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
3.5.4 Use commas in dates (August 15, 2001), locations (Hagatna, Guam), addresses (111 Marine Corps Drive,
Hagatna, Guam), and for items in a series (football, basketball, soccer, and tennis).
3.5.6 Capitalize correctly geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events (We always celebrate the Liberation of Guam by holding a parade on Marine Corps Drive in Hagatna.).