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Nonfiction Text Structure

3rd Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RI.3.8 | Nonfiction Text Structure - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 — Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.8 — Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequenc

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• Theme and Central Message
• Point of View
• Vocabulary in Context
• Summarizing Fiction
• Summarizing Nonfiction
• Introduction to Figurative Language
• Research and Reference Skills
• Reading Fluency Strategies

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