Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.3.K
Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.3.K
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
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- What genre is the story you are reading?
- Name an author whose books you enjoy reading.
- What details in the story help you determine the genre?
- Describe the problem that the main character in the story faces. How is the problem resolved?
- What lesson can be learned from the story? How did the events of the characters show this lesson?
- The following character is the main character in both books/stories. What character trait describes this character? How does the author show this about the character? Use evidence from each book/story.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Students should identify the genre of the story/passage. Examples that they should recognize plays, poems, realistic fiction, historical fiction, and folk tales.
- Students should name an author whose books they enjoy. The author should write books appropriate for third grade. This should encourage students to think about what they have read and what they might want to read in the future.
- Students should focus on details that describe the setting as being in the past. They may discover real people from that past incorporated into the story. If applicable, details from illustrations could be used as evidence as well.
- Students demonstrate comprehension by discussing the problem that the character in the story faces. They should then discuss events that led to the resolution of the problem.
- Students should identify the lesson revealed in the story. They should describe the events that the characters went through to show the development of this lesson.
- Students should name a trait that describes the character featured in both books/stories. They should use details from each book/story as evidence to support the trait. They should include the words and actions of the characters. They should discuss how the character responds to the events in the books/stories. Finally, they should tell how the character interacts with other characters in the books/stories.
