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Expository/ Informational TextsFigure 19 – Bundling

3.13(A)(B)Figure 19 –Third

Grade O (13) Reading/Comprehension of

Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

O (A) identify the details or facts that support the main idea;

O (B) draw conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence;

O Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author’s message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. The student

O (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding;

Text Evidence- 3.17A and Figure 19

I Do, We Do , You Do O Teacher models it – models thinking

process O Teams does it together in small

groupsO Email the results to teachers O Discussions about the work

Expository Writing 3.20O 20) Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts.

Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to:

O (A) create brief compositions that:

O (i) establish a central idea in a topic sentence;

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