Reading Strategies
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RAZ Kids
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Into the Book is designed to improve elementary students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum.
Below is information describing how the resource addresses third grade Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. Please use it as a reference for how Into the Book addresses your specific grade level’s academic standards.
Phonics and Word Recognition
3.RF.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Decode multisyllable words.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Fluency
3.RF.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Key Ideas and Details
3.RL.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
3.RL.2
Recount 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.
Craft and Structure
3.RL.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
3.RL.5
Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
3.RL.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Aligned activities:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
3.RL.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).
Aligned activities:
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Synthesizing — Part, Part, Whole
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Synthesizing — Part, Part, Whole
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
3.RL.10
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.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Key Ideas and Details
3.RI.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
3.RI.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Aligned activities:
Craft and Structure
3.RI.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.
Aligned activities:
3.RI.5
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
3.RI.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Aligned activities:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
3.RI.7
Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Synthesizing — Part, Part, Whole
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Synthesizing — Part, Part, Whole
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
3.RI.8
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Aligned activities:
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
3.RI.10
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.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Production and Distribution of Writing
3.W.6
With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Aligned activities:
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
3.W.8
Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Aligned activities:
Conventions of Standard English
3.L.2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
Aligned activities:
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Space Race
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Space Race
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
3.L.4
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.
- Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Aligned activities:
Prior Knowledge — Look Inside Your Head
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Making Connections — Mountain to Understanding
Making Connections — Slingshot to Understanding
Questioning — Keys to the Castle
Visualizing — Picture Show
Inferring — Use the Clues
Summarizing — A Pirate's Life
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
Summarizing — Monsters to the Rescue
Evaluating — Journey to Magla
Evaluating — Space Race
Synthesizing — Biopic Poster
Strategies Together — Creating Stories
3.L.5
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
- Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
Aligned activities:
Comprehension and Collaboration
3.SL.2
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.