Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.3.5
The Standard
Identify and describe informational text structures, including comparison, cause/effect and problem/solution structures, and describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text and how they contribute to the overall structure.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students spot when a text compares things, explains causes and effects, or presents a problem and solution. They explain how sentences link and what each paragraph adds to that pattern.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students name the pattern in a short article and point to details that show it. They explain how one sentence connects to another and how each paragraph builds the pattern.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may choose a pattern based on one clue word, even when the rest of the text follows another pattern. They may mistake an effect for a solution. They may summarize two paragraphs without explaining how they connect.
How to Assess It
- Give students this passage: “The class garden dried out over the weekend. The plants wilted. Students set up a rain barrel. Now they use stored water on dry days.” Ask: “What pattern organizes the passage, and how does sentence three connect to sentence one?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips from a short garden problem and solution passage; have them order the strips and label each sentence’s job.
Read two paragraphs comparing bikes and buses; ask, “How does the second paragraph add to the comparison in the first?”
Play a matching game with short passage cards and comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution cards; students explain each match.
Post a mock cafeteria notice about a long lunch line and a new serving table; students mark the problem and solution.
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- RI.2.5
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