Grade 3 » Author's purpose and craft

Description: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

Author's purpose and craft

Description: The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

3.10.A

Description: Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

3.10.B

Description: Explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

3.10.C

Description: Explain the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

3.10.D

Description: Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile, and sound devices such as onomatopoeia achieves specific purposes.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts