Virginia SOL 1.RL.3.C
The Standard
Compare and contrast the adventures or experiences of characters in stories heard, using key details.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integration of Concepts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students listen to stories and track what different characters do, face, and experience. They explain how those experiences are alike and different, using specific events from the story.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students name at least one clear similarity and one clear difference between two characters’ experiences. They support each comparison with accurate events or actions from the story.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may compare what characters look like instead of what happens to them. They may retell events without naming a similarity or difference, or make a claim without a supporting detail.
How to Assess It
- After a familiar read-aloud, give this exit ticket: “Name one way the characters’ experiences were alike and one way they were different. Include a story detail for each.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
After a read-aloud, students sort picture cards showing two characters’ experiences into overlapping Venn diagram hoops.
Ask, “How were the characters’ experiences alike and different?” Students answer with two details from the story.
Play Same or Different: read event cards aloud, and students hold up matching or nonmatching cards and explain why.
Students compare two classmates’ routes to school, then connect shared and different events to the experiences of story characters.
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Related Standards
- 1.RL.3.B
Make connections between characters, settings, and major events in stories heard, using key details.
- 5.RL.3.C
Compare and contrast details in paired literary and informational nonfiction texts including their treatment of similar themes, topics, and patterns of events.
- K.RL.3.B
With prompting and support, compare and contrast characters, plot events, or settings between two familiar stories
- 4.RL.3.B
Compare and contrast details in paired literary and informational nonfiction texts including their treatment of similar themes, topics, and patterns of events.
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