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P3 / 3rd Grade Reading Standards

 

Literary Reading

50% of Reading Assessed at Grade 4

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Literary Materials include whole texts and excerpts from short stories, novels, essays, poetry, and plays consisting of classical and modern texts and representing both historical and cultural perspectives.)

Core Content Assessed Through Literary Reading

RD-E-1.0.6: Explain the meaning of a passage taken from texts appropriate for elementary school students.

RD-E-1.0.7: Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays

RD-E-1.0.8: Describe characters, plot, setting, and problem/solution of a passage.

RD-E-1.0.9: Explain a characters’ action based on a passage.

RD-E-1.10: Connect literature to students’ lives and/or real world issues.

Informational Reading

25% of Reading Assessed at Grade 4

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Informational materials include whole texts and excerpts from journals, magazines, newspaper articles, letters, brochures, reference materials, essays, nonfiction books and electronic texts.)

Core Content Assessed Through Informational Reading

RD-E-2.0.6: Use text features (e.g., pictures, lists, tables, charts, graphs, tables of contents, titles/headings, captions, indexes, and glossaries) to understand a passage.

RD-E-2.0.7: Identify the organizational pattern in a passage: sequence, cause and effect, and/or comparison and contrast.

RD-E-2.0.8: Identify main ideas and details that support them.

RD-E-2.0.9: Make predictions and draw conclusions based on what is read.

RD-E-2.10: Connect the content of a passage to students’ lives and/ or real-world issues.

Persuasive Reading

10% of Reading Assessed at Grade 4

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Persuasive materials include whole texts and excerpts from materials such as magazine and newspaper articles, brochures, letters, proposals, speeches, editorials, electronic texts, essays, opinion columns, and advertisements.)

Core Content Assessed Through Literary Reading

RD-E-3.0.6: Identify an author’s opinion about a subject.

RD-E-3.0.7: Identify fact and/or opinion.

RD-E-3.0.8: Identify information that is supported by fact.

Practical/Workplace Reading

15% of Reading Assessed at Grade 4

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Practical/Workplace materials include whole texts and excerpts from materials such as articles, letters, memos, brochures, electronic texts, warranties, recipes, forms, consumer texts, manuals, schedules, and directions.)

Core Content Assessed Through Practical Workplace Reading

RD-E-4.0.6: Locate and apply information for authentic purposes.

RD-E-4.0.7: Follow the directions in a passage.

RD-E-4.0.8: Explain why the correct sequence is important.

RD-E-4.0.9: Interpret specialized vocabulary (words and terms specific to understanding the content) found in practical/workplace passages.

RD-E-4.10: Identify text features and organizational aids (e.g., bold face print, italics, illustrations, bullets, diagrams, numbers, and indices) that provide additional clarity.

 

Fayette County Public Schools ELEMENTARY COMPETENCY ASSURANCE DOCUMENT for Reading

Developed from Academic Expectations 1.2,2.24, &2.25, Kentucky Program of Studies, and Kentucky’s Core Content for Reading Assessment 2003-2004 DRAFT

 

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