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Standard 4 : Range of Reading and Level of Text ComplexityArchived
Cluster Standards
This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
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- LAFS.3.RI.4.10 : By the end of the year, 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 independently and proficiently.
Cluster Information
Number:
LAFS.3.RI.4
Title:
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Type:
Cluster
Subject:
English Language Arts - Archived
Grade:
3
Strand
Reading Standards for Informational Text
Cluster Access Points
This cluster includes the following Access Points.
- LAFS.3.RI.4.AP.10a : Read or listen to and recount self- selected informational articles, history/social studies, science and technical texts.
Cluster Resources
Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
Lesson Plans
- Rocking through the Regions (of the United States): Rocking through the Regions (of the United States) is a 27-day third grade research project on the five regions of the United States and the states that are located within the regions. Students will begin by writing letters to states" Departments of Tourism requesting information about their state. Then, students will work in groups to use the information received along with other print and digital resources they locate to gather information about their region. Once all information is gathered, students will begin writing an informative report and publish their report in an engaging presentation. By the end of this unit, students will be able to identify all five regions on a blank map of the United States and label all 50 states.
- Understanding an Author's use of Text Features in a Non-Fiction Text: This lesson focuses on helping students identify text features in order to better understand author’s purpose. Students will apply this knowledge to understand the informational text Great Migrations Elephants by Laura Marsh.
Student Center Activities
- Comprehension: Plenty of Predictions: In this activity, students will make and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading teacher-selected text (narrative or expository) using a graphic organizer.
- Comprehension: Strategies Game: In this activity, students will use multiple reading strategies to answer questions and comprehend text.
- Comprehension: Question Cards: In this activity, students will answer questions to comprehend text.
Text Resources
- Plants Responding to Different Factors: This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. This article is a description of how a plant responds to light, gravity, and heat.
- Parts of a Plant: This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. This article describes the function of the different parts of a plant.
- Can You Read a Tree?: This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. The article explains how tree rings are used to determine the Earth's climate many years ago.