3rd Grade
Reading Literature
Standards
CC.3.R.L.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
What so you find within the story that helps you answer the question.
What questions do you have about the text? How would you use the text to help answer a question? |
CC.3.R.L.2 Key Ideas and Details: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
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How do we learn about other cultures through a variety of literary texts?
Using key details found in the story, summarize the central theme of the text. |
CC.3.R.L.3 Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
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How are the characters actions important to the events in the story?
Describe a character’s traits (how they look and act), their dreams and fears and their feelings. Compare and contrast the same character from the beginning to the end of the story. |
CC.3.R.L.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
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How can you understand the meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text?
Define direct/actual language, and give examples. Define figurative language, and give examples. Determine if a word or phrase is being used literally or figuratively in a text. |
CC.3.R.L.5 Craft and Structure: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
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Identify different parts of the text like chapters, scenes, or stanzas.
How are the different parts of the text organized? (time order, topic) Describe how one part of a text builds on the parts that came before it. |
CC.3.R.L.6 Craft and Structure: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
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Describe a narrator or character’s point of view in a text.
Do you agree or disagree with the way the characters/ narrator are thinking in this story? Why or why not? |
CC.3.R.L.7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
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Explain in detail how the illustrations in a text add to a character, setting, or mood of a story.
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8. (Not applicable to literature)
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CC.3.R.L.9 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
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CC.3.R.L.10 Range of Reading and Complexity of Text: 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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