Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
MA.CCRA.R. College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
Key Ideas and Details
CCRA.R.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
MA.RL.3. Grade 3 Reading Standards for Literature [RL]
Key Ideas and Details
RL.3.3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Craft and Structure
RL.3.6. Distinguish their own point of view from that of a text’s narrator or those of its characters.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.3.7. Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
RL.3.9. Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).