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English Language Arts
- Standard Area - CC.1.3: Reading Literature: Students read and respond to works of literature - with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Grade Level - CC.1.3.3: GRADE 3
Determine the central message, lesson, or moral in literary text; explain how it is conveyed in text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1b Ask a question about the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1c Identify details from the text to support answers to literal questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2 Recount poems, dramas, or stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the central message of a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2b Retell stories from literature, including literature from different cultures.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Note: “Story” means narration of events told through the text types of story, drama, or poem.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.3a Identify characters and what they do during events in a story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text; refer to text to support responses.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1b Ask a question about the text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1c Identify details from the text to support answers to literal questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2 Recount poems, dramas, or stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the central message of a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2b Retell stories from literature, including literature from different cultures.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Note: “Story” means narration of events told through the text types of story, drama, or poem.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.3a Identify characters and what they do during events in a story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1b Ask a question about the text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.1c Identify details from the text to support answers to literal questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2 Recount poems, dramas, or stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the central message of a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.2b Retell stories from literature, including literature from different cultures.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Note: “Story” means narration of events told through the text types of story, drama, or poem.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-K.1.1.3a Identify characters and what they do during events in a story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Explain the point of view of the author.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-C.2.1 Demonstrate understanding of craft and structure in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-C.2.1.1 Explain the point of view from which a story is narrated, including the difference between first and third-person narrations. Note: “Story” means narration of events told through the text types of story, drama, or poem.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-C.2.1.1a Identify who is telling the story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Refer to parts of texts when writing or speaking about a text using such terms as chapter, scene and stanza and describe how each successive part builds upon earlier sections.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade-level text, distinguishing literal from non-literal meaning as well as shades of meaning among related words.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. a. Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps). b. Distinguish shades of meaning among related words (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the literal and nonliteral meanings of a word or phrase.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-C.3.1 Demonstrate understanding of connections within, between, and/or among texts.
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Eligible Content - 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.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-C.3.1.1a Identify similarities ordifferences between 2 pieces of text by the same author.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. a. Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps). b. Distinguish shades of meaning among related words (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the literal and nonliteral meanings of a word or phrase.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
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Anchor Descriptor - E03.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. a. Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps). b. Distinguish shades of meaning among related words (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the literal and nonliteral meanings of a word or phrase.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E03.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade-level, reading independently and proficiently.