NAC389.247. Third grade: Common Core Standards for English language arts.

     1. The Common Core Standards for English language arts developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative for the third grade are hereby adopted by reference as those standards existed on June 2, 2010. A copy of the Common Core Standards for English language arts for the third grade may be obtained at no cost from the Common Core State Standards Initiative on the Internet at http://www.corestandards.org.

     2. By the beginning of the third grade, pupils must know and be able to do everything required in the previous grades for English language arts.

     3. For the 2011-2012 school year and each school year thereafter, instruction in the third grade in English language arts must be designed so that by the completion of the third grade, pupils meet the standards adopted pursuant to subsection 1.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Education by R019-11, eff. 5-30-2012)