Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part XI - Accountability/Testing
Subpart 5 - Bulletin 127-LEAP Connect Assessment, Louisiana Connectors for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Chapter 93 - English Language Arts
Subchapter D - Grade 3
Section XI-9318 - Reading Literature

A. Answer questions related to the relationship between characters, setting, events, or conflicts (e.g., characters and events, characters and conflicts, setting and conflicts).

B. Answer questions (literal and inferential) and refer to text to support your answer.

C. Support inferences, opinions, and conclusions using evidence from the text including illustrations.

D. Identify the central message (theme), lesson, or moral within a story, folktale, or fable from diverse cultures.

E. Use details to recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures.

F. Use information in the text to determine and explain a lesson learned by a character or theme within the story.

G. Explain how characters' actions contribute to the sequence of events/plot.

H. Describe a character's traits in a story using details from the text and illustrations.

I. Explain a character's motivation in a story using the character's thoughts, words, and actions as evidence from the text.

J. Explain a character's feelings in a story using the character's thoughts, words, and actions as evidence from the text.

K. Describe how a character changed in a story (e.g., different words, thoughts, feelings, actions).

L. Analyze how a character's point of view influences a conflict within a text.

M. Determine the meaning of literal and nonliteral words and phrases as they are used in a text.

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

O. Identify how the structure of a poem is different than a story (e.g., rhyme shorter than stories; stanza instead of paragraph).

P. Identify how the structure of a play is different than the structure of a story (e.g., text includes props; dialogue without quotation marks acts/scenes instead of chapter).

Q. Identify narrator or character's point of view.

R. Identify own point of view.

S. Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.

T. Support inferences, opinions, and conclusions using evidence from the text including illustrations.

U. Use descriptive words and illustrations/visuals from a story, read or viewed, to explain the mood in a given part of the story.

V. Compare two or more texts or adapted texts on the same topic or by the same author.

W. Read or be read to and recount self-selected literary texts, such as stories, fables, folktales, myths, or adapted texts.