3rd Grade Reading Standards

Below are the Pennsylvania Core Reading State Standards that we will be working on in our literary and informational texts throughout the year.

Reading: Literature

Key Ideas and Details

E03.A-K.1.1.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

E03.A-K.1.1.2 Recount poems, dramas, or 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.

E03.A-K.1.1.3 Describe the characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Craft and Structure

E03.A-C.2.1.1 Explain the point of view from which a story is narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

E03.A-C.3.1.1 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., books from a series)

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

E03.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion)

E03.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps)
Distinguish shades of meaning among related words (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered)

Reading: Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

E03.B-K.1.1.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

E03.B-K.1.1.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

E03.B-K.1.1.3 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 and Structure

E03.B-C.2.1.1 Explain the point of view from which a text is written.

E03.B-C.2.1.2 Use text features (e.g., headings, graphics, charts) and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to efficiently locate information relevant to a given topic.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

E03.B-C.3.1.1 Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs to support specific points in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

E03.B-C.3.1.2 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

E03.B-C.3.1.3 Use information gained from illustrations, maps, photographs, and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

E03.B-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases used in a text.
Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion)

E03.B-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps)
Distinguish shades of meaning among related words (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered)