- Learning Outcome
- 3.RN.1 Read and comprehend a variety of nonfiction within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 2-3. By the end of grade 3, students interact with texts proficiently and independently.
- Key Ideas and Textual Support
- 3.RN.2.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- 3.RN.2.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- 3.RN.2.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in processes or procedures in a text, using words such as first, next, finally, because, problem, solution, same, and different.
- Structural Elements and Organization
- 3.RN.3.1 Apply knowledge of text features to locate information and gain meaning from a text (e.g., maps, illustrations, charts, font/format).
- 3.RN.3.2 Identify how a nonfiction text can be structured to indicate a problem and solution or to put events in chronological order.
- 3.RN.3.3 Distinguish one’s own perspective from that of the author of the text.
- Synthesis and Connection of Ideas
- 3.RN.4.1 Distinguish between fact and opinion; explain how an author uses reasons and facts to support specific points in a text.
- 3.RN.4.2 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
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