Third Grade City/State Text-Based Example How Else Might In other words… These Questions Be Worded… Focused Standards: (Questions based on Fly Away by Eve Bunting Home Reading Literature, paired with Grade 3 by Eve A Train to Somewhere Bunting) What the Standards Say… Students can ask and answer questions How does living in an airport Why did the character say what he/she said? 3.1 make the boy feel? Support your about what is happening in a story and whom it is happening to. They can also answers with at least two details Why does the character do ________? Ask and answer ask questions about where and why from the story. questions to events happen. Why is the character in ____(place) in the demonstrate Why does the author include this ___(specific part of text)? understanding of (Details will be literal, inferential, and line of dialogue: a text, referring interpretative—answer will not always it explicitly to the “Don’t stop trying,” I told Which sentence tells what ____ feels when be an exact word/phrase which students can get text as the basis silently. “Don’t! You _____? can point to.) for the answers. out!” Which detail in the first part of the story explains Students Why does the author have the might… why __________? characters dress in blue? ask questions about how the characters are revealed through what they say, How does the story? ______’s action affect think, and do, as well as through what others say about them. Which of these would most likely happen in the ask questions about the complex plot beginning/ end/middle? and theme of the book. ask questions about why the character is What are most of the characters representing?
Third Grade City/State Focused Standards: Reading Literature, Grade 3 What the Standards Say… In other words… Text-Based Example (Questions based on Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting paired with A Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting) 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 can ask and answer questions about what is happening in a story and whom it is happening to. They can also ask questions about where and why events happen. (Details will be literal, inferential, and interpretative—answer will not always be an exact word/phrase which students can point to.) Students might… ask questions about how the characters are revealed through what they say, think, and do, as well as through what others say about them. ask questions about the complex plot and theme of the book. ask questions about why the character is How does living in an airport make the boy feel? Support your answers with at least two details from the story. Why does the author include this line of dialogue: “Don’t stop trying,” I told it silently. “Don’t! You can get out!” Why does the author have the characters dress in blue? Why did the character say what he/she said? Why does the character do ________? Why is the character in ____(place) in the ___(specific part of text)? Which sentence tells what ____ feels when _____? Which detail in the first part of the story explains why __________? How does ______’s action affect the story? Which of these would most likely happen in the beginning/ end/middle? What are most of the characters representing?
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