Language · Grade 3

Skills

• Takes a simple spoken message (who called, what about, what to do) and passes it on accurately.
• Distinguishes a speaker's main point from a supporting detail.
• Explains how to do something they know well, step by step, to someone who does not.
• Adjusts register between a friend, a teacher and an unfamiliar adult.
• Gives a 2–3 minute prepared talk from notes rather than a script.
• Speaks loudly enough to be heard at the back of a room, facing the audience.
• Reads silently and faster than they read aloud.
• Reads aloud with expression, changing voice for dialogue.
• Identifies the main idea of a paragraph and of a whole text.
• Infers something the text implies but never states (how a character feels, and why).
• Works out an unknown word's meaning from its context, and checks it afterwards.
• Reads independently for 20 minutes without being asked to.
• Reads a chapter book of 100+ pages to the end.
• Writes fluently in the joined/cursive form used locally, at a usable speed.
• Copies from a board or a book accurately.
• Uses an alphabetical dictionary fluently, including guide words.
• Knows the common prefixes and suffixes and what they do to a word's meaning.
• Uses commas in a list, and apostrophes for possession and contraction.
• Writes in past, present and future deliberately, and switches on purpose.
• Joins two short sentences into one with a conjunction.
• Writes a description that uses more than sight — sound, smell, texture.
• Writes a set of instructions someone else can actually follow.
• Plans a piece of writing before starting it, on paper.
• Names the setting, characters and problem in a story.
• Knows what a metaphor and a simile are, and finds one in a text.