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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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3rd Grade |
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3.22.A* |
| Description: |
use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
- verbs (past, present, and future);
- nouns (singular/plural, common/proper);
- adjectives (e.g., descriptive: wooden, rectangular; limiting: this, that; articles: a, an, the);
- adverbs (e.g., time: before, next; manner: carefully, beautifully);
- prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- possessive pronouns (e.g., his, hers, theirs);
- coordinating conjunctions (e.g., and, or, but); and
- time-order transition words and transitions that indicate a conclusion;
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| Standard: |
3.11.D |
| Description: |
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;
- (ii) past, present, and future verb tense;
- (iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
- (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
- (v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- (vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
- (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
- (ix) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;
- (x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and
- (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
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 3rd Grade Writing - Parts of Speech - Mixed Lesson
Words are sorted into groups by what they do in a sentence. These groups of words are called the parts of speech.
Some important parts of speech include:
NOUNS
PRONOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITIONS
CONJUNCTIONS |
- NOUN
- A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, animal, or idea. A noun can be singular or plural.
Common nouns name general people, places,
things, animals, or ideas.
Proper nouns name specific people, places, things,
animals, or ideas. They always begin with capital letters,
no matter where they are in a sentence.
- Mrs. Gomez
- The noun, "Mrs. Gomez," is a proper noun that names a person. It is singular.
- Houston
- The noun, "Houston," is a proper noun that names a place. It is singular.
- paintbrushes
- The noun, "paintbrushes," is a common noun that names a thing. It is plural.
- armadillo
- The noun, "armadillo," is a common noun that names an animal. It is singular.
- excitement
- The noun, "excitement," is a common noun that names an idea. It is singular.
- PRONOUN
- A pronoun is a word that is used to replace a noun in a sentence.
- She
- Camila was going to the amusement park this weekend. She wanted to ride all the roller coasters.
- The pronoun, "she," replaces the noun, "Camila."
- him
- Lewis forgot his art supplies at home.
Please let him borrow some for today.
- The pronoun, "him," replaces the noun, "Lewis."
- their
- Olivia and Kumail's spring project was to start a garden. Their parents helped them pick out seeds to plant.
- The pronoun, "their," replaces the possessive noun, "Olivia and Kumail's."
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