3.7.E

ELA3rd GradeThe student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

The Standard

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students show their thinking as they read, listen, or watch. They record key ideas, questions, reactions, and connections through notes, marks, brief writing, or drawings.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students choose a useful way to capture ideas from a text, recording, or image. Their notes, marks, writing, or drawings show key details, questions, and connections.
Common Misconceptions: Students may copy whole sentences instead of recording key ideas. They may add marks or pictures that do not connect to the source, or confuse personal reactions with evidence.
How to Assess It: Show a one-minute science video. Ask students to write one key fact, one question, and one labeled sketch based on the video.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed article and sticky notes to mark one key fact, one question, and one connection.
After a read-aloud, ask, “Which detail changed your thinking?” Students jot a response, then explain it to a partner.
Play Note Sort by having teams sort sample notes into useful details, questions, connections, and unrelated ideas.
Have students study a school lunch menu, circle information needed to choose a meal, and sketch their final choice with reasons.

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