Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.A:
Students use a variety of prewriting tools to organize ideas and information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.B:
Students state a main idea, theme, or opinion and provide supporting details from the text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.C:
Students use relevant examples, reasons, and explanations to support ideas.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.D:
Students express opinions and make judgments that demonstrate a personal point of view.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.E:
Students use personal experiences and knowledge to analyze new ideas.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.F:
Students analyze the author's use of setting, plot, character, rhyme, and rhythm in written and visual text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.G:
Students create an advertisement, using words and pictures, to illustrate an opinion about a product.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.H:
Students use effective vocabulary in expository writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.I:
Students use details from stories or informational texts to predict or explain relationships between information and events.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.J:
Students use ideas from two sources of information to generalize about causes, effects, or other relationships.

Performance Indicator - ELA.3.W.3.K:
Students maintain a portfolio that includes written analysis and evaluation as a method of reviewing work with teachers and parents/caregivers.