Story Prompts
3rd Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.18.A*
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write imaginative stories that build the plot to a climax and contain details about the characters and setting |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.20.C*
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write responses to literary or expository texts that demonstrate an understanding of the text |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
33
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Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.3.a
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.3a
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W3a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.3.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.3a
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.3.b
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Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W3a
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Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.3.a
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Establish a situation by using a narrator, including characters, and organizing an event sequence that unfolds naturally. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.1
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Compose reflective, formal, and creative writing, which may happen simultaneously or independently, for a variety of high-stakes and low-stakes purposes. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.3.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.3b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W3b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.3.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.3b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.3.c
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Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W3b
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Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events
or show the response of characters to situations. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.3.b
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Use dialogue and/or descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events, or to show the response of characters to situations. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.2.a
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Opinion pieces in which the student supports a point of view about a topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, list reasons that support the opinion. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.3.c
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.3c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W3c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.3.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.3c
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.3.d
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W3c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.3.c
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Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.3.c
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Word Choice (including domain specific): Use words familiar to the student for emphasis, addition, contrast, or order to connect categories or information, and to convey meaning. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.3.d
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.3d
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3W3d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.3.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.3d
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.3.e
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.3.d
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Provide a sense of closure. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W3d
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Provide a conclusion. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.3.2.c
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Convey events, real or imagined, through narrative or short stories to develop experiences or events using descriptive details and clear event sequences to establish a situation and introduce a narrator or characters. Use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.M
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Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.N
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Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.O
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Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.P
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Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using temporal words and phrases to signal event order; provide a sense of closure. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.Q
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Choose words and phrases for effect.
- E03.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases for effect.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.R
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
- E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
- E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
- E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
- E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
- E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
- E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
- E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
- E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
- E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
- E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
- E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
- E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
- E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
- E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
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Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.C.1.2
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Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events, appropriate descriptions, dialogue, a variety of transitional words or phrases, and an ending. |
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.V.1.1
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Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
3.W.3.S
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Write a narrative with a logical plot (sequence of events, characters, and setting). |
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