Grade 03 ELA - EC: E03.A-C.3.1.1

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
Questions/activities that grow in complexity
Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

3rd Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content

E03.A-C.3.1.1 E03.A-C.3.1.1

Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). Note: “Stories” means narration of events told through the text types of stories, dramas, or poems.

Activities

Given two stories with the same or similar characters:

What main character in Book A is also in Book B?

Describe the setting in each story.

Compare/contrast the themes from both stories.

Explain how the character is the same and different in the two stories.

Describe how the character’s actions in the first story lead to events in the second story.

Based on the character’s behaviors at the end of the story, what would you expect to happen in another story about this character?

Answer Key/Rubric

Students will name a character that is in both books.

Students will tell where and when each story takes place. They should note whether the settings are the same or different, and provide appropriate examples.

Students will identify the themes from both stories. They will describe how they are alike or how they are different, and provide appropriate examples.

Students will compare and contrast the character’s behaviors and feelings in the two stories. They will provide specific details from each story to support the comparison.

Students will describe the character’s behaviors in the first story that led to events in the second story. They will explain how those behaviors were connected to the second story.

Students will make a prediction of what would happen in another story about the character in a previously read story. They will include details from the author’s story to use as a basis for their prediction.