The lessons below are short interactive lessons that review the most tested skills on the STAAR RLA 3rd-grade assessment. 

Inference

• Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales

• Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

• Draw inferences from a text

Literary texts

• Read realistic fiction with illustrations

• Read realistic fiction: set 1

• Read realistic fiction: set 2

• Read poetry

• Compare information from two informational texts

• Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

• Compare and contrast characters

• Distinguish points of view

Main idea

• Determine the main idea of a passage

Theme

• Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales

Supporting details

• Use key details to determine the main idea

• Compare information from two informational texts

• Identify supporting details in informational text

Informational texts

• Read about famous places

• Read about famous people

• Read about business and technology

• Read about science and nature

Author's purpose

• Identify the author's purpose: mixed media

• Identify the author's purpose: passages

• Choose reasons to support an opinion

• Complete the opinion passage with an example

• Complete the opinion passage with a reason

• Identify supporting details in informational texts

Written Essay: Informational 

Organization

• Organize information by topic

Topic sentences

• Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs

Conclusion

• Choose the best concluding sentence

Facts and opinions

• Distinguish facts from opinions

Supporting details

• Identify supporting details in informational texts

Written Essay Argumentative 

Organization

• Organize information by topic

Facts and opinions

• Distinguish facts from opinions

• Identify an author's statement of opinion

Supporting details

• Choose reasons to support an opinion

• Complete the opinion passage with an example

• Complete the opinion passage with a reason

• Complete the opinion-reason-example table

• Identify supporting details in informational texts