General Information
Test Item Specifications
- Requires the student to answer a question where the answer is determined by using information from both illustrations and the text. Then, the student must select textual evidence from excerpted text.
- Requires the student to answer a question where the answer is determined by using information from both illustrations and the text.
- Requires the student to complete a table by matching information from the text and illustrations with related conclusions about key events.
*LAFS.3.SL.1.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
*LAFS.3.SL.1.3: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Items may ask the student to determine what information is gained from both the illustrations and the text. *There will be no audio administered on paper-based assessments.
The items assessing these standards may be used with two or more grade-appropriate informational texts and other media. Passages may consist of text, visuals, or multimedia selections. Texts may vary in complexity.
The Enhanced Item Descriptions section on page 3 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice item type). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Text
Related Courses
Course Number1111 | Course Title222 |
5010010: | English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated)) |
5010020: | Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
5021050: | Social Studies Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
5010044: | Language Arts - Grade Three (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
7710014: | Access Language Arts - Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
7721014: | Access Social Studies - Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
5011030: | Library Skills/Information Literacy Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2016 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
Related Resources
Lesson Plans
Name | Description |
Understanding Chronological Order | In this lesson, students will learn how to effectively read a timeline text feature and understand its purpose within a text. Students will also be able to create a timeline by extracting relevant details from a grade-level text on a given topic. |
States of Water Part 2 | Students will be able to describe water as it changes state through boiling, evaporation, and condensation. |
Exploring the States of Water | This is a week long lesson which helps children explore the three states of water: solid, liquid, and gas. Students will explore examples of where and what conditions the states of matter occur and investigate how to collect observations on the various states of water. |
Using Text Features to Learn About Reptiles | In this lesson, students will identify and use text features to learn about reptiles while reading the book REPTILES by Melissa Stewart. As the students practice identifying and using text features, they will also identify relevant details in the text. Using the text features and relevant details, students will identify the central idea. The students will then create a Reptile Poster using central ideas, relevant details, and text features. This lesson will use the text Reptiles by Melissa Stewart. However, this lesson can be done with any reptile-based book. |
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 Activity
Name | Description |
Comprehension: Text Feature Find | In this activity, students will locate text features and explain how they help the reader understand the text. |
Teaching Ideas
Name | Description |
Native American Living Then and Now | This teaching idea describes a project third grade students participated in after studying Native Americans. Students created their own illustration page and described the artwork with descriptive paragraphs. |
National Symbols | This teaching idea from the California Court's "California on My Honor" lesson plan program supports the introduction of national symbols, landmarks and monuments and what they stand for. The teaching idea calls for students to be given the task of developing a flag to represent their classroom.once they begin to understand the abstract representation of symbols. |
Unit/Lesson Sequence
Name | Description |
Using Science Texts to Teach the Organizational Features of Nonfiction | Science captures even the most reluctant readers and writers. Students are naturally drawn to the colorful photographs and layouts of nonfiction science texts. This lesson supports students in grade 3 as they explore the organizational features of nonfiction texts, such as labels, captions, headings, fonts, and so on. Students then have an opportunity to work together with their classmates to create a two-page spread using those features to present information about their local environment. |