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By the end of grade 3, most students use oral language to clarify and extend their
personal understanding of what they hear, read, see, and experience. They guide the listener
to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation. They can adapt
their oral language to situations, purposes, and needs of audiences. They practise organizing
ideas chronologically or around major points of information. They can provide a beginning, a
middle, and an ending. They include concrete details that develop a central idea, and link words
to organize and present their ideas. Students can use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate
ideas and establish the tone.
Most students at the end of grade 3 can deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests, organized and focused on a central idea. They can make brief narrative presentations, providing a context for an incident and insight into why the selected incident is memorable. They include well-chosen details to develop character, setting, and plot. Students can read prose and poetry aloud with fluency, rhythm, and appropriate pace, using intonation and vocal patterns to emphasize important passages of the text being read. They can plan and present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays with clear diction, pitch, tempo, and tone. Most students can make descriptive presentations that use concrete sensory details to set forth and support unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences. They can use basic courtesy in group work. |