3rd Grade
Reading Informational Text
Standards
CC.3.R.I.1 Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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Essential Questions
Create your own questions about an important idea from the text.
Use evidence from the text to support your answer to your questions. |
CC.3.R.I.2 Key Ideas and
Details: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain
how they support the main idea.
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What is the main idea of this text? Use supporting details to explain.
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CC.3.R.I.3 Key Ideas and Details: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
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How do authors explain the key ideas, events, and steps in informational text?
How is the organization of informational text different depending on the type of text (e.g., historical, scientific, technical)? |
CC.3.R.I.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
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Determine the meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text. (i.e. glossary or context)
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CC.3.R.I.5 Craft and Structure: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
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How do text features and search tools help readers access and understand various texts?
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CC.3.R.I.6 Craft and Structure: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
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Think about what the author is telling you in this text. Do you agree or disagree with the author’s thinking?
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CC.3.R.I.7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
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How do illustrations and words help a reader understand a text? (maps and photographs)
What information can be gained from the illustrations and words of a text? |
CC.3.R.I.8 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
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Read these two passages. Can you tell how the ideas in the two paragraphs are connected? (time order, comparison of events/ideas, cause/effect)
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CC.3.R.I.9 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
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What is the same about the points presented in these two texts? What is different?
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CC.3.R.I.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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After reading different examples of informational text explain which portions of a text I understand, and locate and explain portions of a text that are difficult for me.
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