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📖 3rd Grade · ELARL.3.1Unit 1: Launching a reading life

Asking questions

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🎯 Objective: Students ask and answer questions, referring explicitly to the text.

Lesson outline

  1. Model question stems before, during and after reading (I wonder why…, What if…).
  2. Read a short story; stop at three points to ask.
  3. Find answers in the text and mark the page.
  4. Exit: one question with the evidence that answers it.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.3.1

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read grade-level text with accuracy and fluency
  • Ask and answer questions referring to the text

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Character traits📖 Reading passage: You Are Invited!📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Launching a reading life”

  1. Reading identity
  2. Asking questions
  3. Fluency: phrasing
  4. Multisyllabic words
  5. Book talks

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