Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CLXIX - Bulletin 141-Louisiana Student Standards for English Language Arts
Chapter 9 - Grade 3
Section CLXIX-903 - Reading Informational Text

A. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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

C. 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.

D. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.

E. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to efficiently locate information relevant to a given topic.

F. Distinguish the students point of view from that of the author of a text.

G. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

H. Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

I. Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

J. By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.