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CO.3.2.Reading for All Purposes
Reading for All Purposes
3.2.1. Strategies are needed to make meaning of various types of literary genres. Students can:
3.2.1.a. Use Key Ideas and Details to:
3.2.1.a.i. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (CCSS: RL.3.1)
3.2.1.a.iii. 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. (CCSS: RL.3.2)
3.2.1.a.v. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. (CCSS: RL.3.3)
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3.2.1.b.iii. 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. (CCSS: RL.3.5)
3.2.1.c. Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
3.2.1.c.i. 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). (CCSS: RL.3.7)
3.2.1.c.iii. 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). (CCSS: RL.3.9)
3.2.2. Comprehension strategies are necessary when reading informational or persuasive text. Students can:
3.2.2.a. Use Key Ideas and Details to:
3.2.2.a.i. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (CCSS: RI.3.1)
3.2.2.a.iii. 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. (CCSS: RI.3.3)
3.2.2.b.i. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area. (CCSS: RI.3.4)
3.2.2.b.ii. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. (CCSS: RI.3.5)
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3.2.2.b.iv. Use semantic cues and signal words (because, although) to identify cause/effect and compare/contrast relationships
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3.2.2.c. Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
3.2.2.c.i. 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). (CCSS: RI.3.7)
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3.2.2.c.ii. Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence). (CCSS: RI.3.8)
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3.2.2.d. Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
3.2.2.d.i. 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. (CCSS: RI.3.10)
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3.2.3.c. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. (CCSS: L.3.4)
3.2.3.c.i. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. (CCSS: L.3.4a)
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3.2.3.c.ii. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). (CCSS: L.3.4b)
3.2.3.c.v. Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases. (CCSS: L.3.4d)
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3.2.3.d.ii. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful). (CCSS: L.3.5b)
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3.2.3.e. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them). (CCSS: L.3.6)
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3.3.1.b. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. (CCSS: W.3.3)
3.3.1.b.ii. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. (CCSS: W.3.3b)
3.3.1.b.iii. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order. (CCSS: W.3c)
3.3.2. A writing process is used to plan, draft, and write a variety of informational texts. Students can:
3.3.2.a. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. (CCSS: W.3.2)
3.3.2.a.ii. State main ideas and include sufficient details or facts for appropriate depth of information (naming, describing, explaining, comparing, use of visual images)
3.3.3.d. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. (CCSS: L.3.3)
3.3.3.d.i. Choose words and phrases for effect. (CCSS: L.3.3a)
3.3.3.e. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (CCSS: L.3.1)
3.3.3.e.i. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. (CCSS: L.3.1a)
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3.3.3.f.v. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness). (CCSS: L.3.2e)
3.3.3.f.vi. Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words. (CCSS: L.3.2f)