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3rd-Grade ELA Assignment

This assignment is weakly aligned to the standards.

Overview

Third-grade students define the terms “fact” and “opinion” and then determine which term applies to a series of statements. This assignment does not require students to read and make meaning from a worthwhile text.

Why is this assignment weakly aligned?

This assignment is not aligned because it does not include a text or a strong task:

The assignment is not text-dependent. It asks students to evaluate a series of isolated statements, instead of carefully reading and analyzing a grade-appropriate, worthwhile text.

While students have an opportunity to distinguish fact from opinion, the assignment does not require students to distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.

Additional ELA Resources

Common Core ELA Standards
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Instructional Shifts in Literacy
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Student Work Review Tool – ELA
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