English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Informational Text » Grade 3

Key Ideas and Details

• 1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-1

• 2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-2

• 3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-3

Craft and Structure

• 4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-4

• 5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-5

• 6. Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-6

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• 7. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-7

• 8. Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-8

• 9. Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-9

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

• 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.

  Suggested tag: cc-3e-ri-10