Reading Literature

• Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.
• Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed.
• Describe characters in a story via traits, motivations, or feelings, and explain how their actions contribute to events.
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language (metaphors, similies, analogies, etc...).
• Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems; e.g., chapter, scene, and stanza.
• Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.
• Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by words.
• Compare and contrast themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (series).
• Independently and proficiently read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band.

Reading Informational

• Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.
• Determine the main idea of a text; recount key details and explain how they support the main idea.
• 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.
• Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a 3rd grade topic or subject.
• Use text features and search tools (key words, sidebars, hyperlinks, etc...) to efficiently locate information relevant to a given topic.
• Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author.
• Use information gained from illustrations and the words in the text to demonstrate understanding
• Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text.
• Compare and contrast the most important points and key details in two texts on the same topic.
• Independently and proficiently 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.

Reading Foundational

• Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
• Read 3rd grade sight words.
• Read 3rd grade text with purpose and understanding.