SCOPE AND SEQUENCE / 3RD GRADE READING
FIRST SIX WEEKS
TEKS
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Students understand new vocabulary and use it
when reading and writing.
Dictionary Skills
3.4E Alphabetize a series of words to the third
letter and use a dictionary or glossary to determine
the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of
unknown words
Multiple meaning words,
synonyms, antonyms,
homophones, and homographs
3.4C Identify and use antonyms, synonyms,
homographs, and homophones
COMPREHENSION/FICTION
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of
fiction and provide evidence to support their
understanding.
Sequence and summarize plots
3.8A Sequence and summarize plot’s main ev ents
and explain their influence on future events
Establish a purpose for reading
Figure 19A Establish purposes for reading selected
texts based upon others’ desired outcome to
enhance comprehension
Locate facts and details
3.2B Ask relevant questions, seek clarification, and
locate facts and details about stories and other
texts and support evidence from text
Inference/fiction
Figure 19D Make inferences about text and use
textual evidence to support understanding
COMPREHENSION/POETRY
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of
poetry and provide evidence from text to support
their understanding
Infer and draw
conclusions/humorous poetry
3.6A Describe the characteristics of various forms
of poetry and how they create imagery/ humorous
poetry
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE / 3RD GRADE READING
SECOND SIX WEEKS
TEKS
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Students understand new vocabulary and use it when
reading and writing.
Context Clues
Prefixes and Suffixes
3.4B Use context to determine the relevant
meaning of unfamiliar words or distinguish among
multiple meaning words and homographs
3.4A Identify the meaning of common prefixes
(eg., in-, dis- ) and suffixes (eg., -full, -less) and
know how they change the meaning of roots
Students understand, make inferences and draw
COMPREHENSION/FICTION conclusions about the structure and elements of
fiction and provide evidence to support their
understanding
Character analysis
Monitor and adjust
comprehension
Inferring
Ask literal, interpretive, and
evaluative questions of text
3.8B Describe the interaction of characters
including their relationships and the changes they
undergo
Figure 19C Monitor and adjust comprehension (eg., using
background knowledge, creating sensory images, rereading
a portion aloud, generating questions)
Figure 19D Make inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding
Figure 19B Ask literal, interpretive, and evaluative
questions of text
COMPREHENSION/POETRY
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about t he structure and elements of poetry
and provide evidence from text to support their
understanding.
Infer and draw
conclusions/narrative poetry
3.6A Describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry
and how they create imagery / narrative poetry
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE / 3RD GRADE READING
THIRD SIX WEEKS
TEKS
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Students understand new vocabulary and use it when
reading and writing.
Context Clues
3.4B Use context to determine the relevant meaning of
unfamiliar words or distinguish among multiple meaning
words and homographs
COMPREHENSION/NONFICTION
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the varied structural patterns and
features of literary nonfiction and respond by providing
evidence from text to support their understand
Make inferences and draw
conclusions / nonfiction
Figure 19D Make inferences and draw conclusions about
nonfiction texts
Use text features in expository
text
3.13D Use text features (eg., bold print, captions, key words,
italics) to locate information and make and verify
predictions about contents of text
Draw conclusions/ Support with
text evidence
3.13B Draw conclusions from the facts presented in text
andsupport those assertions with textual evidence
Locate and use specific
information in graphic features
of text
3.15B Locate and use specific information in graphic
features of text
Comprehension /Poetry
Students understand and make inferences, and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry
and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding
Lyrical poetry
3.6A Describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry
and how they create imagery
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE / 3RD GRADE READING
FOURTH SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Comprehension / Fiction
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction
and provide evidence from text to support their
understanding. Students are expected to
Sequence and summarize the
plot’s events and influences on
the future
3.8A Sequence and summarize the plot’s main events and
explain their influence on future events
Summarize the meaning and
logical order
Figure 19E Summarize information in text , maintain
meaning and logical order
Inferring/Drawing Conclusions
Figure 19D Make inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding
Identify the details or facts that
support the main idea
3.13A Identify the details and facts that support the main
idea
Comprehension /Informational
Text
Student’s analyze , make inferences and draw conclusions
about expository text and provide evidence from the text
to support their understanding.
Identify explicit cause and effect 3.13C Identify explicit cause and effect relationships among
relationships among ideas in text ideas in text
Identify facts and details that
support the main idea
3.13A Identify the details or facts that support the main
idea
Author’s purpose / provide
evidence from text
3.12A Identify the topic and locate the author’s stated
purpose in writing the text
Comprehension / Poetry
Students understand, make inferences, and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry
and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
Free verse poetry
3.6A Describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry
and how they create imagery / free verse
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE / 3RD GRADE READING
FIFTH SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Comprehension/Theme and
Genre
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions
about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and
contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text
to support their understanding.
Paraphrase themes and
supporting details of fables,
legends, myths, and stories
3.5A Paraphrase themes and supporting details of fables,
legends, myths, or stories
3.5B Compare and contrast setting in myths and traditional
folktales
Comprehension/ Sensory
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about how an author’s sensory language
creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from
text to support their understanding.
Identify language that creates a
graphic visual experience and
appeals to the senses
3.10A Identify language that creates a graphic, visual
experience and appeals to the senses
Reading/Media Literacy
Students will continue to apply earlier standards with
greater depth in increasingly more complex texts.
Use comprehension skills to
analyze how words, images,
graphics, and sounds work to
impact meaning
13.6A Understand how communication changes when
moving from one genre of media to another
13.6B Explain how various design techniques used in media
influence the message (eg. shape, color, sound)
13.6C Compare various written conventions used for digital
media (eg. language in an informal email vs. language in a
web-based news article)
Comprehension/Informational
Text
Students analyze and make inferences and draw
conclusions about persuasive text/ provide evidence.
Make connections between
literary and informational text
Figure 19F Make connections (eg. thematic links, author
analysis) between literary and informational texts with
similar ideas and provide textual evidence
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE / 3RD GRADE READING
SIXTH SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Comprehension/Fiction
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction
and provide evidence from text to support their
understanding.
Identify whether the narrator or
speaker is first or third person
3.8C Identify whether the narrator or speaker of the story is
first or third person
Comprehension/ Drama
Student’s understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions abut the structure and elements of drama and
provide evidence from text to support their understanding
Explain elements of plot and
character as presented through
dialogue in scripts
3.7A Explain the elements of plo or character as presented
through dialogue in scripts that are read, viewed, written ,
or performed
Comprehension / Nonfiction
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the varied structural patterns and
features of literary nonfiction and respond by providing
evidence from text to support their understanding.
Explain the difference in point of
view between biography and
autobiography
3.9A Explain the difference in point of view between
biography and autobiography
Comprehension/Procedural
Text
Students learn how to glean and use information in
procedural texts and documents.
Follow and explain a set of
written multi-step directions
3.15A Follow and explain a set of written multi-step
directions
Comprehension /Persuasive
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions
about persuasive text and provide evidence from text to
support their analysis.
Identify what the author is trying 3.14A Identify what the author is trying to persuade the
to persuade the reader to think
reader to think or do
or do