NY Grade 3 ELA study guide
NY Grade 3 ELA · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The New York State Grade 3 English Language Arts Test is one of the Grades 3-8 Tests administered through the New York State Education Department's Office of State Assessment, which lists Grades 3-8 Tests alongside Regents Exams, the New York State Alternate Assessment (NYSAA), English Language Proficiency Assessments, and Test Security resources. It is a state assessment for third-grade students in New York, given as part of the state's P-12 assessment program rather than as a professional credential. The NY Grade 3 ELA study guide has 4 sections and about 1,287 words.
01Reading Standards for Literature and Informational Text (Grade 3)
This domain carries most of the reading score. Grade 3 students read stories, fables, folktales, myths, poetry, and drama, plus informational texts on history, science, and technical steps.
366 words, about 2 min02Writing Standards (Grade 3)
Grade 3 writing has two faces on the ELA test: short constructed responses (a few sentences that answer a reading question with evidence) and longer pieces in the three grade 3 text types. The standards also require planning, revising, editing, and gathering information from sources, so organization and sentence control are scored alongside ideas.
323 words, about 2 min03Speaking and Listening Standards (Grade 3)
These standards appear in classroom tasks and support the reading and writing sections: students must follow a discussion, pull the main idea from something read aloud, ask useful questions, and report with facts and descriptive details. Grade 3 work moves from 'I think' to 'I think this because the speaker said...'.
312 words, about 2 min04Language Standards (Grade 3)
This domain tests grade 3 conventions and vocabulary. Conventions questions ask for the correct sentence, the fix, or the rule; vocabulary questions ask for a word's meaning from context, the effect of a prefix or suffix, or the best word for a shade of meaning.
286 words, about 1 min