Reading
Read for 20 to 25 minutes EVERY NIGHT! Remember to log your minutes in your student planner. Third graders should read fiction and non-fiction texts to enhance reading skills.
Unit 1: Story Structure
RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RL.3.2 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.
RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Unit 2: Character Descriptions and Text Features
RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.3.7 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)
RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Unit 3: Main Idea and Author’s Purpose
RL.3.2 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.
RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Unit 4: Compare and Contrast Texts
RL.3.9 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)
RI.3.7 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).
RI.3.9 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Unit 5: Point of View and Text Structure
RL.3.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
RI.3.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
RI.3.8 Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
The materials we will be using to meet these standards are:
- Journeys English Language Arts Program
- Supplemental Leveled Texts