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Key Ideas & Details
  • 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.
Craft & Structure
  • 3.RI.4  Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
  • 3.RI.5  Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
  • 3.RI.6  Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Integration of Knowledge
  • 3.RI.7  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).
  • 3.RI.8  Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
  • 3.RI.9  Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Range of Reading
  • 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.
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