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Summarizing Fiction

3rd Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RL.3.2 | Summarizing Fiction - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is c

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