Common Core Standards

Grade 3

Reading: Informational Text—Grade 3

It's time to dust off your Encyclopedia Britannica...okay, not really—we're totally hip with the Internet and all. In fact, a big part of mastering Informational Text standards can be linked to Internet and technology basics. 

The Informational Text standards emphasize ten categories to help put the educational feather in your students' hats. The emphasis is on textual interaction and using text as a tool to help justify opinions. Informational Text standards are about expanding third graders' vocabulary and increasing their intellectual reach all while learning new concepts. 

This series of standards is laying some serious foundation for deeper level thinking that starts to take over in the coming years.

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