Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.3.3
The Standard
Describe the relationship between individuals, a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts or steps in technical procedures over the course of a text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people, events, ideas, or steps connect across an informational text. They use details from the text to show what changed, what caused something else, or why a step came next.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can trace a connection from the beginning of a passage to the end. They explain the link using details from both parts, rather than just listing what happened.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may put events in order without explaining how they connect. They may treat anything that happened later as a result, even when the text does not say so.
How to Assess It
- Write on the board: “Water softened the seed coat. The coat split, and a root came out. The root took in more water, helping a stem grow.” Ask, “How did water help the seed change? Name two connected changes from the passage.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a bean seed passage cut into three strips; have them order the strips and draw arrows showing how each change led to another.
Read a short account of a town flood; ask, “How did the rising water change what the neighbors did?”
Write four event pairs from a frog article; have teams sort them into “caused by” and “happened next” piles.
Hand out picture directions for patching a bike tire; students explain why finding the leak comes before applying the patch.
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