3rd Grade CCSS: Reading: Informational Text

For third graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a non-fiction text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, third graders will be asked to: discuss key details in a text to demonstrate how they underpin the main idea, determine the main idea of a piece of informational text, understand the meaning of words that relate to the grade three subject area, use text features, key words, sidebars and hyperlinks to find information within a text, differentiate their point of view as a reader as separate from the author, distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text, use illustrations like maps and photographs to gain information that helps demonstrate understanding of the text’s meaning, compare and contrast key details in two texts on the same topic, read grade appropriate informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts which increase in complexity throughout the year.