Last updated: 4/11/2025

3rd Grade - Reading

Trimester 1

-Building a Reading Life

-Mystery Unit

(Lucy Calkins)

(3) 3R1 Develop and answer questions to locate relevant and specific details in a text to support an answer or inference. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R2 Determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize portions of a text. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R3
  • In literary texts, describe character traits, motivations, or feelings, drawing on specific details from the text. (RL)
  • In informational texts, describe the relationship among a series of events, ideas, concepts, or steps in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. (RI)
(1) 3R4 Determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, and academic and content-specific words. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R8 Explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence. (RI & RL)
(2) 3R9 Recognize genres and make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, personal events, and situations. (RI & RL)
(1) 3RF3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

-How do readers create reading lives for themselves?

-How do readers make texts matter to them?

-How do readers bring together reading lives?

-Guided Reading Level

-Read closely for comprehension within fiction and nonfiction texts

-Identify key components of texts including main idea, details, character, setting and events

-Use context clues identify unknown vocabulary

Trimester 2

-Reading to Learn

-Character Studies

Lucy Calkins: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures

-Test Prep

 

 

 

(3) 3R1 Develop and answer questions to locate relevant and specific details in a text to support an answer or inference. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R2 Determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize portions of a text. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R3
  • In literary texts, describe character traits, motivations, or feelings, drawing on specific details from the text. (RL)
  • In informational texts, describe the relationship among a series of events, ideas, concepts, or steps in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. (RI)
(2) 3R5
  • In literary texts, identify parts of stories, dramas, and poems using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza. (RL)
  • In informational texts, identify and use text features to build comprehension. (RI)
(2) 3R7 Explain how specific illustrations or text features contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a text (e.g., create mood, emphasize character or setting, or determine where, when, why, and how key events occur). (RI & RL)
(3) 3R8 Explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence. (RI & RL)

-How do readers walk in other character’s shoes?

-How do readers build theories about characters?

-How do readers grow and learn lessons alongside the characters in the books they read?

-Guided Reading

-Read closely for comprehension within fiction and nonfiction texts

-Identify key components of texts including main idea, details, character, setting and events

-Use text features to analyze literature such as headings, sub-headings, and stanzas

-Use context clues identify unknown vocabulary

 Trimester 3

Research Clubs

Lucy Calkins: Elephants, Penguins, and Frogs, Oh My!

 

(3) 3R1 Develop and answer questions to locate relevant and specific details in a text to support an answer or inference. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R2 Determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize portions of a text. (RI & RL)
(3) 3R3
  • In literary texts, describe character traits, motivations, or feelings, drawing on specific details from the text. (RL)
  • In informational texts, describe the relationship among a series of events, ideas, concepts, or steps in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. (RI)
(2) 3R5
  • In literary texts, identify parts of stories, dramas, and poems using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza. (RL)
  • In informational texts, identify and use text features to build comprehension. (RI)
(1) 3R6 Discuss how the reader’s point of view or perspective may differ from that of the author, narrator or characters in a text. (RI & RL)
(2) 3R7 Explain how specific illustrations or text features contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a text (e.g., create mood, emphasize character or setting, or determine where, when, why, and how key events occur). (RI & RL)
(3) 3R8 Explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence. (RI & RL)
(2) 3R9 Recognize genres and make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, personal events, and situations. (RI & RL)

-Guided Reading Level

-Read closely for comprehension within fiction and nonfiction texts

-Identify key components of texts including main idea, details, character, setting and events

-Identify author’s purpose and point of view

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