Grade 3 Reading Lit Evidence Table (2)

ELA English Language Arts Items measuring the contentStandards, Evidence, and Notes Table emphases may address the standards and evidences below: Grade 3 Strand Reading Standards for Literature Emphasis Students read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-level complex literary texts. STANDARDS Evidence Statement Notes, clarifications, or additional resourcesRL.3.1: Ask and answer questions  Provides questions and/or answers that Updated October 19, 2016 Page 1to demonstrate understanding of show understanding of a text, referringa text, referring explicitly to the explicitly to the text as the basis for thetext as the basis for the answers. answers. (1)  Provides references to details and/or examples in a text when explaining the basis for the answers. (2)RL.3.2: Recount stories, including  Provides a recounting of stories,fables, including fables, folktales and mythsfolktales, and myths from from diverse cultures. (1)diverse cultures; determine the  Provides a statement of the centralcentral message, lesson, or message, lesson or moral in a text. (2)moral and explain how it is  Provides an explanation of how aconveyed through key details in central message, lesson or moral isthe text. conveyed through details in a text. (3)RL3.3: Describe characters in a  Provides a description of characters instory (e.g., their traits, a story (e.g., their traits, motivations,motivations, or feelings) andexplain how their actions or feelings). (1)contribute to thesequence of events.  Provides an explanation of how characters’ actions contribute to the sequence of events. (2)RL.3.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they areCenterPoint Education Solutions ©–October 2016

ELA English Language Arts Items measuring the contentStandards, Evidence, and Notes Table emphases may address the standards and evidences below: Grade 3 Strand Reading Standards for Literature Updated October 19, 2016 Emphasis Students read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-level complex literary texts. Page 2used in a text, distinguishing  Provides references to parts of storiesliteral from nonliteral language. dramas, and poems when writingRL.3.5: Refer to parts of stories, about a text, using terms such asdramas, and chapter, scene and stanza.(1)poems when writing orspeaking about a text, using  Provides a description of how eachterms such as chapter, scene, successive part of a text builds on earlierand stanza; describe how each sections. (2)successive part builds onearlier sections. RL3.6: Distinguish their ownpoint of view from that of  Provides an explanation of how athe narrator or those of the specific aspect of a text’s illustrationscharacters. contribute to what is conveyed by theRL3.7: Explain how specific words in a story (e.g., create mood,aspects of a text’s emphasize an aspect of a character orillustrations contribute to setting). (1)what is conveyed by thewords in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasizeaspects of a character or  Provides a comparison and contrast ofsetting). the themes of stories written by theRL.3.8: (RL.3.8 not applicable to same author about the same or similarliterature) charactersRL.3.9: Compare and contrastthe themes,settings, and plots of storieswritten by the same authorCenterPoint Education Solutions ©–October 2016

ELA English Language Arts Items measuring the contentStandards, Evidence, and Notes Table emphases may address the standards and evidences below: Grade 3 Strand Reading Standards for Literature Emphasis Students read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-level complex literary texts.about the same or similar (e.g., in books from a series). (1)characters (e.g., in books from aseries).  Provides a comparison and contrast of the settings of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). (2)  Provides a comparison and contrast of the plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). (3)CenterPoint Education Solutions ©–October 2016 Updated October 19, 2016 Page 3