Alabama 3rd Grade ELA Standards in Comprehension 

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Comprehension

• 18 Demonstrate content knowledge built during independent reading of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through writing.
• 19 Determine the explicit or implied main idea and supporting details of a text.
  • 19.a Explain how supporting details contribute to the main idea, using textual evidence.
  • 19.b Recount or summarize the key ideas from the text.
• 20 Establish a purpose before reading literary and informational texts to enhance comprehension, including identifying background knowledge and generating questions about the topic or characters.
• 21 Identify and interpret various cohesive devices that link words and sentences to one another within the text.
• 22 Describe literary elements within a story, including setting, plot, characters, and themes.
  • 22.a Describe in detail the characters’ behavior, emotions, and traits and explain how their actions influence events in the story.
  • 22.b Explain how the characters’ actions and dialogue contribute to the meaning of the story.
  • 22.c Identify the central message, theme, or moral in a story, including myths, fables, and folktales, and explain the meaning conveyed in the passage.
  • 22.d Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots from two texts.
• 23 Identify and use text features in informational passages to locate information.
  • 23.a Explain how text features support details in the text.
  • 23.b Explain how illustrations contribute to meaning in a story.
  • 23.c Interpret text features used in written and digital formats.
• 24 Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts.
  • 24.a Explain how the structures, including comparison and contrast, sequence of events, problem and solution, and cause and effect, contribute to the meaning of the text, using textual evidence.
• 25 Identify statements in informational texts as facts or opinions.
  • 25.a Use prior knowledge and/or details from the text to distinguish fact from opinion.
  • 25.b Use information gathered from research to evaluate opinions.
• 26 Use text comparisons (text to text, text to self, and text to world) to make meaning.
  • 26.a Use prior knowledge to determine similarities between texts they are reading and texts they have previously read.
  • 26.b Compare different versions of the same story.
• 27 Read prose, poetry, and dramas, identifying the literary devices used by the author to convey meaning.
• 28 Identify the narration of a literary text as first person or third person.
• 29 Determine the main idea of a text read aloud or information presented in an audible format.
• 30 Manipulate words and/or phrases to create compound sentences, including coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so, and complex sentences to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.