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Language Arts - Grade 3 Literacy

Narrative: Appreciation
The learner will be able to read longer narrative and expository text independently including chapter books.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.c Home
  
Genre: Literary/Explore
The learner will be able to experience various literary and media genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13 Home
  
Genre: Independent Reading/Explore
The learner will be able to read independently for a variety of purposes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.12 Home
  
Author: Reading Selections
The learner will be able to choose works from favorite authors/illustrators and genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.e Home
  
Informational: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read to gain information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.12.b Home
  
Expository: Use/Features
The learner will be able to recognize and use common text features (e.g., headings, key words, graphics).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.03.c Home
  
Author Intention: Discuss
The learner will be able to discussing author's purpose for writing.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.7 Home
  
Genre: Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize different forms of text (e.g., poems, plays and stories).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.03.d Home
  
Types of genres
The learner will be able to identify types of stories (e.g., folktales, fables, fairy tales).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.g Home
  
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Information Processing

Information/Ideas: Purpose/Learning
The learner will be able to introduce informational skills to facilitate learning.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.10 Home
  
After reading
The learner will be able to check for understanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b Home
  
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Language Expressions

Expression: Literature/Use
The learner will be able to explore the ways in which language is used in literary texts (e.g., rhythm, beat, imagery, simile, and metaphor).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.i Home
  
Noun: Use
The learner will be able to use nouns appropriately (e.g., nouns as subjects, singular, plurals and possessives).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01.a Home
  
Adverb: Use/Form
The learner will be able to use adverb appropriately (e.g., common formation and placement in a sentence).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01.e Home
  
Pronoun: Use
The learner will be able to use pronouns appropriately (e.g., subject and object, pronouns, substitution for nouns, agreement with antecedents).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01.c Home
  
Sentence Structure: Identify Complete
The learner will be able to recognize complete sentences, edit incomplete sentences and run-on sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04.e Home
  
Sentence Structure: Apply/Communicate
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04 Home
  
Verb: Use
The learner will be able to use verbs appropriately (e.g., past, present and future tenses, irregular verbs, agreement with simple and compund subjects).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01.b Home
  
Sentence Combining: Compound/Use
The learner will be able to use compound subjects and/or predicates when combining sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04.g Home
  
Sentence Combining: Simple/Compound
The learner will be able to combine simple sentences into compound sentences to increase syntacitc variety.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04.f Home
  
Conventions: Use/Possessives
The learner will be able to form and spell contractions, plurals and possesives correctly.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.03.d Home
  
Conventions: Standard English
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01 Home
  
Adjective: Use
The learner will be able to use adjectives appropriately (e.g., vivid descriptive words, comparative/ superlative, and articles).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01.d Home
  
Usage: Errors/Identify
The learner will be able to recognize usage errors (e.g., double negatives, troublesome words [to, two; their, there, they're]).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.01.f Home
  
Imperative: Identify
The learner will be able to identify and use statements, questions, commands and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04.b Home
  
Subject: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the subject and predicate of a sentence (simple and compound).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04.d Home
  
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Language Mechanics

Apostrophe: Possessive/Singular
The learner will be able to recognize and use contractions and possessives using apostrophes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.02.e Home
  
Endmark: Correct/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize statements, questions and exclamations by noting end punctuation when writing and intonation when speaking.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.04.c Home
  
Capitalization: Own Name
The learner will be able to use capitalization when writing names, dates, cities and states, addresses, holidays, and titles of books.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.02.a Home
  
Capitalization: Proper Nouns
The learner will be able to capitalize the first word in a sentence, proper nouns, titles, abbreviations, parts of a friendly letter, and the first word in a direct quotation.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.02.b Home
  
Comma: Address
The learner will be able to use commas in dates, locations, addresses and items in a series.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.02.c Home
  
Contraction: Use/Understand/Reading
The learner will be able to recognize and use compound words, contractions, and abbreviations.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.07.d Home
  
Punctuation: Correct
The learner will be able to use correct punctuation (e.g., end puncuation, periods in initials, abreviations and titles before names, colon beween hour and minutes, parts of a letter).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.02.d Home
  
Mechanics: Standard English
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.3.02 Home
  
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Response: Variety/Media
The learner will be able to listen and respond to a wide variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, videos).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.02.c Home
  
Auditory Discrimination: Awareness/Sound
The learner will be able to develop awareness of sounds of language through repeated exposure to a variety of auditory experiences (e.g., poetry, books on tape, music lyrics, sound effects, and read-alouds).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.04.a Home
  
Behaviors: Listening Skills/ Expand
The learner will be able to develop listening skills.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.02 Home
  
Behaviors: Variety/Attentive
The learner will be able to listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.02.a Home
  
Directions: Understand/Oral
The learner will be able to understand, follow, and give oral directions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.01.c Home
  
Directions: Follow/Oral
The learner will be able to follow directions given orally.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.02.e Home
  
Processes: Developmentally Appropriate
The learner will be able to use appropriate listening skills (e.g., do not interrupt, face speaker, ask questions).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.02.b Home
  
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Purposes: Variety
The learner will be able to read and view various literary (e.g., short stories, fairy tales, non-fiction texts, biographies, folktales, and poetry) and media (e.g., photographs, the arts, films, video) genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.a Home
  
Articles: Paragraphs/Recognize
The learner will be able to apply skills and strategies to comprehend informational text (e.g., pre-reading strategies, comprehension strategies).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.11.c Home
  
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Reading Operations

Strategies: Reading to Learn/Curriculum
The learner will be able to develop skills to facilitate reading to learn across the curriculum.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.11 Home
  
Strategies: Improve Fluency
The learner will be able to read to build fluency.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.12.f Home
  
Purposes: Establishing
The learner will be able to identify a purpose for reading (e.g, for information, for enjoyment, for understanding a writer's position).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.08.a Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Motivation/Create
The learner will be able to create and maintain a motivation to read.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14 Home
  
Reading: Confidence/Various/Increase
The learner will be able to read with increasing fluency and confidence from a variety of texts (e.g., paired readings, shared reading, choral reading, teacher-led reading, and reading from tapes).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.06.a Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Literary/Relate
The learner will be able to relate literary experiences (e.g., book discussions, literacy circles, writing, oral presentations, artistic representations).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.f Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Independent/Daily
The learner will be able to read daily and independently from a variety of texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.06.f Home
  
Reading Aloud: Narrative/Expository
The learner will be able to read aloud grade-appropriate narrative and expository text fluently and accurately, using approrpriate timing, intonation, and expression.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.06.b Home
  
Read Aloud: Text/Fluency/Confidence
The learner will be able to read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.06 Home
  
Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understand after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09 Home
  
Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use metacognitive reading strategies to monitor comprehension (e.g,. reread, read ahead, adjust reading speed).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.a.3 Home
  
Prereading: Strategies/Apply
The learner will be able to develop and use pre-reading strategies.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.08 Home
  
Response: Creative
The learner will be able to participate in creative responses to text (e,g,. choral reading, discussion, dramatization, and oral presentations).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.01.e Home
  
Response: Develop/Mental Image
The learner will be able to develop mental images while reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.a.4 Home
  
Prior Knowledge: Activities/Background
The learner will be able to participate in activities to build background knowledge to make meaning from text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.08.b Home
  
Response: Opinions/Share
The learner will be able to expressing reactions and personal opinions in response to a selection.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.a.5 Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Self-Selected/Read
The learner will be able to experience daily opportunites to read.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.g Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Literacy Activities
The learner will be able to engage in a variety of literacy activities voluntarily (self-select books and stories).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.b Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Personal Enjoyment
The learner will be able to choose to read as a leisure activity.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.h Home
  
Personal: Literature/Genre/Choose
The learner will be able to select literature based on personal needs and interests from a variety of genres and by different authors.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.14.d Home
  
Relate: Events/Experiences
The learner will be able to connect life experience to information and events in texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.08.e Home
  
Cause/Effect: Identify
The learner will be able to identify cause and effect in reading materials.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.3 Home
  
Main Idea: Fiction/Stated/Inferred
The learner will be able to recognize the stated/implied main idea of the text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.6 Home
  
Draw Conclusion: Support
The learner will be able to draw conclusions based on evidence gained while reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.1 Home
  
Predicting: Text Feature
The learner will be able to make predictions using text features (e.g., illustrations and graphics).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.08.c Home
  
Fact/Opinion
The learner will be able to distinguish between fact and opinion.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.5 Home
  
Character: Identify
The learner will be able to define and identify the characters.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.d Home
  
Character: Main/Supporting/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between the main and supporting characters.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.e Home
  
Character: Compare/Contrast/Plot
The learner will be able to discuss similarities and differences in text events, characters, and character actions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.4 Home
  
Character: Solution/Problem
The learner will be able to determine the problem in a story, discover its solutions, and consider alternate solutions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.f Home
  
Compare/Contrast: Versions/Same Stories
The learner will be able to compare and contrast various versions of the same stories, legends, lessons, or events representing different cultures.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.h Home
  
Point of View: 1st Person
The learner will be able to explore the concept of first person point of view.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.j Home
  
Strategies: Features/Use/Find
The learner will be able to use text features to find information in text (e.g., charts, tables of contents, maps, illustrations).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.11.b Home
  
Strategies: Self-Correct
The learner will be able to use self-correction strategies wihle reading (e.g., pausing, rereading, asking for help).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.11.d Home
  
Source: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read for literary experience.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.12.a Home
  
Purpose: Vocabulary/Build
The learner will be able to build vocabulary by reading a wide range of text types inside and outside the classroom.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.07.i Home
  
Setting: Identify
The learner will be able to define and identify story setting.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.13.c Home
  
Emergent Reading: Comprehend/Paragraph
The learner will be able to recognize that groups of sentences make a paragarph and paragraphs make a story or article.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.03.a Home
  
Emergent Reading: Word Sorts/Use
The learner will be able to manipulate word walls and words sorts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.07.h Home
  
Sequence: Information
The learner will be able to sequencing story events and/or text information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.09.b.2 Home
  
Reading Aloud: Oral Readings/Guided
The learner will be able to take part in guided oral readings.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.06.c Home
  
Reading Aloud: Punctuation/Apply
The learner will be able to reflect puncruation within written text while reading orally.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.06.d Home
  
Prereading: Illustrations/View
The learner will be able to preview text using illustrations, graphics, text format, text structures and skimming.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 3, 3.1.08.d