Sharing Informative Texts About Curiosity

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.

Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.

Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Describe why it is important for learners to be curious

Understand the skills (being prepared, focused effort, diligent practice, attention to detail, etc.) that enable someone to acquire or polish a skill

Explain how a particular historical or contemporary person practiced curiosity

Provide evidence that he or she has intentionally worked to strengthen a particular intellectual skill (diligence, attention to detail, etc.)

Demonstrate the ability to analyze data, facts, and information

Explain why it is important for everyone to serve and contribute to their family, school, community, nation, globally

Describe how a role model volunteers and contributes to the common good

Give and receive constructive feedback to classmates and peers