Explain how text features contribute to meaning and identify the text structures of chronology, comparison, and cause/effect in texts.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 3
Strand: Reading
Standard: Reading Informational Text
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved
Related Courses
This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010044: Language Arts - Grade Three (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7710014: Access Language Arts - Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5011030: Library Skills/Information Literacy Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2016 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010024: Basic Skills in Reading 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010103: Introduction to Debate Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010014: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 3 (Specifically in versions: 2022 and beyond (current))
Related Access Points
Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
ELA.3.R.2.AP.1: Identify the text structures of chronological order, comparison and cause/effect in texts.
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Lesson Plans
Original Student Tutorial
Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades K-5
Cause and Effect in the Deep, Blue Sea:
Help Noah learn how to identify examples of cause and effect in informational text in this ocean-themed, interactive tutorial. You will also learn how to match events and ideas in informational text that have a cause and effect relationship.
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Original Student Tutorial
Cause and Effect in the Deep, Blue Sea:
Help Noah learn how to identify examples of cause and effect in informational text in this ocean-themed, interactive tutorial. You will also learn how to match events and ideas in informational text that have a cause and effect relationship.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
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