3rd Grade CCSS: Reading: Literature

For third graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional 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: recount stories from diverse cultures and demonstrate their understand of the meaning using key details from the text, give detailed accounts of characters from a story their motivations and actions in relation to the plot, determine the meaning of words used in a story, understand how parts of a story build to a whole, differentiate their point of view as a reader as separate from the characters or narrator, understand the contribution of illustrations to the text, read grade appropriate literature that increases in complexity.