South Dakota ELA 3.W.8.b

ELA3rd GradeWriting

The Standard

3.W.8: Gather and recall information from experiences and print and digital sources.

Sort evidence into provided categories.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find details in a text and place them under headings the teacher gives them. They check that each detail fits its heading.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given Food and Shelter as headings, a student puts 'frogs eat insects' under Food and 'frogs hide under logs' under Shelter. They can point to where each detail appears in the text.
Common Misconceptions: Students may sort details in the order they appear instead of by what they mean. They may include a guess, such as 'frogs eat grass,' even when the text does not say it.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Give students these sentences: 'Bees collect nectar from flowers. Bees live in hives.' Ask them to place each detail under Food or Home.

Lesson moves

Hand out strips reading 'Frogs eat insects' and 'Frogs hide under logs'; pairs place them on Food and Shelter mats.
Post 'Strong wind blew' and 'A tree fell'; ask partners which detail fits Cause or Effect and why.
Play a card sort with four bat facts: two about food and two about places bats sleep.
Bring a school concert flyer; students place its printed date and location under When and Where on a class chart.

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