City/State Focused In other Text-Based Example How Else Might These Questions Be words… Standards: Worded… Questions based on The Great Reading Informational by Leonard Everett Wall of China Fisher (first five pages) Texts, Grade 3 paired with What the Standards You to Work on Say… Wouldn’t Want the Great Wall of China: Defenses You’d Rather Not Build by Jacqueline Morley (first page) Students will ask questions as they read What is one problem that King the main idea of this part of the 3.1 What’s to pay closer attention to what they are Cheng faces when he becomes the text? reading. They will ask and answer first Emperor of China? Ask and answer questions to get more information and According to the text and photos in the questions to demonstrate they will show how and where they What happened first that made it passage what do the photos show about the understanding of a text, found the answer. They will build on the possible for King Cheng to difference in the _______ (place/body referring explicitly to work of last year when they were become the first emperor of from _____ the text as the basis for features/objects/activity/…) expected to ask and answer questions China? and ______? the answers. such as “who, what, where, when, why, or how.” On the second page of the text, Which question could be answered by what do we learn about why the reading the first couple of paragraphs? Students may not be able to locate the man has come to see King
City/State Focused Standards: Reading Informational Texts, Grade 3 What the Standards Say… In other words… Text-Based Example Questions based on The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher (first five pages) paired with You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Great Wall of China: Defenses You’d Rather Not Build by Jacqueline Morley (first page) How Else Might These Questions Be Worded… 3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Students will ask questions as they read to pay closer attention to what they are reading. They will ask and answer questions to get more information and they will show how and where they found the answer. They will build on the work of last year when they were expected to ask and answer questions such as “who, what, where, when, why, or how.” Students may not be able to locate the What is one problem that King Cheng faces when he becomes the first Emperor of China? What happened first that made it possible for King Cheng to become the first emperor of China? On the second page of the text, what do we learn about why the man has come to see King What’s the main idea of this part of the text? According to the text and photos in the passage what do the photos show about the difference in the _______ (place/body features/objects/activity/…) from _____ and ______? Which question could be answered by reading the first couple of paragraphs?
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