Cycle 2

3.RL.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.

3.RL.3 - Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

3.RL.5 - 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.

3.RL.7 - 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.

3.L.1b - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns

3.L.1c - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood)

3.L.2c - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

3.L.5c - Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered)

3.L.4c - Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).