ELAGSE3RI1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

ELAGSE3RI1 EQs

How does asking and answering questions help me stay engaged with text? How can I justify my answers using the text?

ELAGSE3RI1 EQs

How do I ask a good question? What is the difference between a thick question and a thin one?

ELAGSE3RI1 EQ

How can the strategy of making connections help me better understand instructional text?

ELAGSE3RI1 EQs

What does it mean to predict? What is the difference between predicting and inferring?

ELAGSE3RI2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

ELAGSE3RI2 EQs

How can I tell the main idea of a text? What are key details and how do they support the main idea of a text?

ELAGSE3RI3: 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.

ELAGSE3RI3 EQ

What are some ways to represent a series of events, a collection of ideas, or a set of procedures?

ELAGSE3RI4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.

ELAGSE3RI4 EQ

What are some strategies for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words in informational text?

ELAGSE3RI5: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic quickly and efficiently.

ELAGSE3RI5

How can I use text features to locate information quickly and efficiently?

ELAGSE3RI6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.

ELAGSE3RI6 EQ

How do I determine an author’s point of view? What if it is different from my point of view?

ELAGSE3RI7: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps,photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrateunderstanding of the text (e.g., where,when, why, andhow key events occur).

ELAGSE3RI7 EQ

How can I use graphic features in addition to the words in a text to fully understand the topic?

ELAGSE3RI8: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

ELAGSE3RI8 EQ

How are sentences connected logically to form paragraphs? What strategies do authors use to organize their thoughts?

ELAGSE3RI9: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

ELAGSE3RI9 EQs

How can I get the most important details from two texts on the same topic? Why is it good to compare and contrast the key points from two books on the same subject?

ELAGSE3RI10: 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.

ELAGSE3RI10 EQ

To be a well-rounded reader, what genres of books should I read? What can I do to become a better reader and improve my reading stamina?