4th Quarter​ ELA ​Standards 
Standards:  Students will be able to:
Literature Standards (Fiction)
RL 3.9:
Compare and contrast the themes,
settings, and plots of stories written by the
same author about the same or similar
characters.
Informational Standards (NonFiction)
RI 3.8​:
Describe how the author connects ideas
between sentences and paragraphs to
support specific points in a text.
Language Standards 
L 3.4:
Determine and/or clarify the meaning of
unknown and multiple-meaning words
and phrases based on grade 3 reading
and content, choosing flexibly from a
range of strategies: context clues, word
parts, word relationships and reference
materials.
 
 
● Identify the setting and elements of
stories in a series needed to
determine the theme and analyze the
plot.
● Summarize the themes and plots of
stories in a series.
● Compare and contrast the themes,
settings, and plots in stories of the
same series.
  
● Identify the structure of a paragraph or
whole text.
● Locate the sentences within a text that
are the “effect of a cause,” “solution to
a problem,” “steps in a process,” or
“difference between.”
● Describe how these sentences and
paragraphs are connected by
summarizing parts of a text or the
whole.
● Recognize when the meaning of a
word is unknown and apply a context
clue strategy to the word.
● Break a word into parts and determine
the meaning of the different parts.
● Clarify the meaning of an unknown
word using multiple strategies.