Virginia SOL 3.RL.3

3.RL.3 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

• 3.RL.3.A

  Set a purpose for reading by looking at the illustrations and activating prior (experience) and background (content) knowledge.

• 3.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.

• 3.RL.3.C

  Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students preview illustrations and connect the text to what they know before choosing a purpose for reading. They compare details across literary and informational texts. They also compare theme, setting, and plot in stories by the same author.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students use illustrations and what they already know to state a clear reason for reading. They cite details when comparing paired texts or two stories by one author, including theme, setting, and plot.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may list details from two texts without explaining how the details are alike or different. They may confuse theme with topic, or compare characters while ignoring setting and plot.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a short story and nonfiction passage on the same topic. Ask them to name one similarity, one difference, and the reading purpose suggested by an illustration.

1. 01

   Give pairs two illustrated texts, sticky notes, and a Venn diagram to record predictions, prior knowledge, similarities, and differences.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How does each author present the same topic, and which details show the difference?

3. 03

   Play a card sort where students match details from two stories to theme, setting, plot, same, or different.

4. 04

   Pair an animal story with a fact page, then have students explain which facts the story uses and which details are invented.

• 1.RI.3

  The 1st Grade version of this standard.

• 1.RL.3

  The 1st Grade version of this standard.

• 3.RI.3

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.

• 2.RI.3

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.