Standard Alignments:

CCSS ELA: RI.3.2

RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

RI.3.3

RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

TEKS ELA: 3(9)(D)(iii)

3(9)(D)(iii) Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution.

Special Programs:

Writing Workshop (explanatory 3-5)