RI.3.3/RI.3.5 Lesson

RI.3.3/RI.3.5 Lesson

Standard:

• L.3.4 Determine 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.

I can statements:

• I can determine the meaning of unknown words by using words or sentences around the word. 

Multiple Choice

Animals live in DIVERSE and varied communities. What is the meaning of the word DIVERSE?
 

• very different
• the same
• weird
• muggy

Multiple Choice

The robber tried to __________ the scene of the crime, but the police managed to catch him.

• select

• conceal

• organize

• flee

Multiple Choice

If you park your car on the _______, it might roll all the way down.

• slope

• driveway

• level

• sidewalk

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Match-it Activity

Standard:

• RI.3.3  Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or concepts or steps in technical procedures in a text.  

  
  

  
  

I can statement:

• I can describe how some scientific ideas are related.

Standard:

• RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

  
  

  
  

I can statement:

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

Multiple Choice

PART A: Which sentence describes the main idea of the text?

• The rainbow mountains are too perfect to have been made by nature

• Artists can’t create anything as beautiful as the rainbow mountains

• C. The rainbow mountains are an amazing natural formation.

• D. There are likely other beautiful, hidden sites around the world.

Multiple Choice

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “They’re part of a formation in China nicknamed the ‘rainbow mountains.’” (Paragraph 1)

• “The stripes used to be hidden, stacked underground like layers in a cake.” (Paragraph 2)

• “Then, about 55 million years ago, two of the Earth’s tectonic plates smashed into each other in slow motion.” (Paragraph 2)

• “All that rock was pushed upward to form mountains — and those colorful layers were hidden no longer.” (Paragraph 2)

Multiple Choice

Why does the author compare the colorful stripes to a layered cake?

• to draw attention to how bright the layers of rocks are beneath the surface

• to help readers understand how the layers sat beneath the surface

• to help readers understand how the layers sat beneath the surface

• to suggest that it’s easy to cut into the layers of the mountain

Multiple Choice

What happened between when the layers were hidden underground and when they became visible as mountains?

• The layers formed as different colors.

• The Earth’s plates ran into each other.

• The Earth’s surface started to weaken.

• The layers were uncovered by scientists.

Commonlit

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