CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.3
The Standard
Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Informational Text
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how a person, event, or idea affects another part of an informational text. They support each connection with specific details and explain the direction of influence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can map a clear chain linking people, events, and ideas in a text. The student explains each link with accurate evidence and distinguishes influence from simple sequence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each person or event separately without explaining the connections. They may confuse events happening in sequence with one event causing another. They may also claim an influence without citing details from the text.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article and ask: How does one idea affect a person or event? Explain with two details from the text.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs index cards labeled person, event, and idea, then have them arrange and annotate an influence chain from the reading.
Ask students to write: Which idea changed one person's actions most, and which two details prove that influence?
Play Connection Match: students pair cause and result cards, then defend each match with a sentence from the text.
Use a local news article to trace how a community concern led to a decision and how that decision affected residents.
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