Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.3.9

ELA3rd GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Explain the relationship between information from two or more texts on the same theme or topic.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read two nonfiction texts about the same topic. They find details that connect and explain how one text adds to, supports, or differs from the other.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain how a passage about bees carrying pollen helps explain a passage about flowers making seeds. They use a detail from each passage, rather than retelling them separately.
Common Misconceptions: Students may list facts from both texts without explaining the connection. They may mistake a new detail for a disagreement or use evidence from only one text.
How to Assess It: Give students two short passages, one about bees carrying pollen and one about flowers using pollen to make seeds. Ask, “How does the bee passage help explain the flower passage? Use one detail from each.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs the bee and flower passages; have them connect related facts with colored yarn and explain each link.
Ask, “How does the bee passage help explain the flower passage?” Have partners point to a sentence in each before answering.
Make fact cards from the bee and flower passages; students match related cards and explain each match.
Print a city recycling flyer and school bin rules; students explain which flyer details clarify the bin rules.

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