Recount stories, including fables, folktales, Bible stories, poems and myths from diverse cultures. Determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text (link Catholic teaching to other literary materials).

R-3-3A-3

Depth 2

CSIS2: Articulate how spiritual knowledge and truth are represented and communicated through fairy tales, fables, myths, parables, and stories.

R-3-3A-4

Depth 2

Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events (including lessons from the life of Jesus).

R-3-3A-5

Depth 2

CSIS7: Identify the causes underlying why people do the things they do.

R-3-3B-1

Depth 2

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language (including figurative language).

R-3-3B-2

Depth 2

CSIS3&4: Recognize Christian symbols and symbolism and explain what they communicate.

R-3-3B-3

Depth 2

Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza.

R-3-3B-4

Depth 2

Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters, relative to what is Good, True, Beautiful; morality, virtues, social teaching.

R-3-3C-1

Depth 2

Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations including religious illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).

R-3-3C-2

Depth 2

Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories including religious stories.

R-3-3C-3

Depth 2

CSIS1: Demonstrate how literature is used to develop a religious, moral, and social sense.

R-3-3D-1

Depth 2

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature representing a variety of genres that is reflective of diversity and appropriately complex for the individual student

R-3-3D-2

Depth 2

CSIS13: Determine how literature cultivates the ability for contemplation, intuition, and creativity.

R-3-5A-1

Depth 2

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

R-3-5A-2

Depth 2

Determine the main idea of a text. Recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

R-3-5A-3

Depth 2

Describe the relationship between a series of historical events (including the life of Christ and the lives of the saints), scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

R-3-5B-1

Depth 2

Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a Grade 3 topic or subject area.

R-3-5B-2

Depth 2

Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

R-3-5B-3

Depth 2

Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text, e.g., moral values.

R-3-5B-4

Depth 2

CSIS8: Identify how text develops the capacity for personal judgment.

R-3-5C-1

Depth 2

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).

R-3-5C-2

Depth 2

CSIS3&4: Recognize Christian symbols and symbolism and explain what they communicate.

R-3-5C-3

Depth 2

Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence); describe logical connections between sentences and paragraphs in a religious text.

R-3-5C-4

Depth 2

Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

R-3-5D-1

Depth 2

By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, appropriately complex for the individual student

R-3-5D-2

Depth 2

CSIS1: Demonstrate how text is used to develop a religious, moral and social sense.

R-3-6A-1

Depth 2

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

R-3-6B-1

Depth 2

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Depth 3

Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.

Depth 3