Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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 and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
3.RL.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
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.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
3.RL.7
Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.
3.RL.9
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.
By the end of the year read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
3.RI.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
3.RI.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
3.RI.3
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.
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text.
3.RI.9
Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
3.RI.10
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.
3.RF.3A
Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.