Reading

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.

  • Retell 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 a text.

  • Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Craft and Structure

• • Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from figurative language.

  • Identify common structural elements of fiction (e.g., problem, solution); describe how each successive part of a text builds on earlier sections.

  • Distinguish their own point of view from that of a text’s narrator or those of its characters.

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).

  • 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).

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

• • Independently and proficiently read and comprehend literary texts representing a variety of genres, cultures, and perspectives and exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 3.

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.

  • Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

  • Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, mathematical ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

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.

  • Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

  • Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• • Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words, numbers, and symbols in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

  • Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

  • Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

• • Independently and proficiently read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, mathematical, and technical texts, exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 3.

Phonics and Word Recognition

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

• • • • • • Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.

          • Decode words with common Latin suffixes.

          • Decode multi-syllable words.

          • Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Fluency

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

• • • • • • Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

          • Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

          • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.