Comprehension Task Cards are focused on text-dependent questions for 3rd-grade standards in informational texts. Students will engage with high-interest and challenging original informational texts and respond to open-ended questions.

The questions are text-dependent, which means rereading will be required as students find text evidence to support their thinking.

Comprehension Task Cards 3rd Grade (Fiction)

Comprehension Task Cards 3rd Grade (Informational) You're Here!

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Comprehension Task Cards 3rd Grade Include:

-15 Task Cards & 31 Questions

-Original Informational Texts with Prereading Questions and Rereading

-Open-Ended Questions

-Text-Dependent Questions

- Asking Questions, Using Details and Text Evidence, Determining Main Idea, Justifying an Inference

-New TEKS and CCSS Alignment

-Free Bonus Resources

Text Complexity

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 5.3-8.8

ATOS 7.1

Level 800-900

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About the Comprehension Task Cards

The half-page task cards have prereading questions and inferential questions using informational texts on high-interest topics:

• Volcanoes
• Tornadoes
• Hurricanes

The final task card allows students to make comparisons across the texts and cite text evidence.

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Standards for Text-Dependent Questions

Common Core Alignment

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

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

New TEKS Alignment

TEKS 3.6(A) establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts.

TEKS 3.6(B) generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.

TEKS 3.7(C) use text evidence to support an appropriate response.

TEKS 3.9(D) recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:

(i) the central idea with supporting evidence

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