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English Language Arts
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Reading: Informational Text (K-12)
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RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions, and make relevant connections to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
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RI.3.3 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.
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RI.3.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
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RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
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RI.3.8 Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence) to support specific points the author makes in a text.
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Reading: Literature (K-12)
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RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions, and make relevant connections to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
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RL.3.7 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).
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Speaking & Listening (K-12)
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SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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SL.3.3 Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
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Writing (K-12)
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W.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
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W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using narrative technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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W.3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Science
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ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
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5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
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LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
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3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
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LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
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5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
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LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
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3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
