Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.3.E
Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.3.E
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Activities
- How is this book/story broken into parts? Does it use chapters or scenes?
- What is a stanza?
- Based on this chapter, predict what will happen in the next chapter.
- What is the main idea of this scene?
- Explain how the character’s events in the previous chapter led to events in this chapter.
- Describe the image that is created by this stanza in the poem. Why did author include this stanza?
Answer Key/Rubric
- Students should identify the correct number of chapters in the given book.
- Students should explain that a stanza is a group of lines from a poem. It is the organizational structure of poetry.
- Students should use the events of a chapter to predict what will happen in the next chapter. The prediction should have a logical connection to the events that have already taken place in the story.
- Students should discuss the main idea of a particular scene of a play. Their response should only refer to that scene, not the entire play.
- Students should analyze the events in the two consecutive chapters and discuss the connection between them. They should provide specific details from each chapter to show this cause-effect relationship.
- Students should write a detailed description of the image portrayed in the given stanza. They should discuss how this image is connected to the main idea of the poem in order to justify why the author included it.
