Grade 3 PSSA ELA Eligible Content

Literature and Informational Texts

 E03.A,B-K.1.1.1.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
to the text as a basis for answers

Literature
 E03.A-C.2.1.1 Explain the point of view – first vs third person narrators
 E03.A-K.1.1.2 Recount poems, dramas, stories including fable,s folktales, and myths
 E03.A-K.1.1.2 Determine the central message, lesson, or moral of a text and explain how it
is conveyed
 E03.A-K.1.1.3 Describe characters (traits, motivations, feelings) and explain how their
actions contribute to the sequence of events
 E03.A-C.3.1.1.1 Compare and contrast themes, setting, and plots (same author, similar
characters, series)

Informational Text
 E03.B-K.1.1.2 Determine main idea
 E03.B-K.1.1.2 Recount key details and explain how they relate to the main idea
 E03.B-K.1.1.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific
ideas or concepts or steps in a technical procedure using language that
pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect
 E03.B-C.3.1.1 Describe connection between sentences and paragraphs to support points in
a text (compare contrast, cause/effect, sequence)
 E03.B-C.2.1.1 Explain author’s viewpoint
 E03.B-C.2.1.2 Use text features (headings, graphics charts, key words, sidebars, hyperlinks)
to efficiently locate relevant information
 E03.B-C.3.1.3 Use illustrations, maps, photographs and words to tell where, when, why,
how events occur
 E03.B-C.3.1.2 Compare and contrast two texts on same topic (important points and details)

Vocabulary
 E03.A-V.4.1.1 Use context to determine meaning of an unknown word or phrase
 E03.A-V.4.1.1 Determine meaning of a new word when an affix is added to a known word
 E03.A-V.4.1.1 Use a root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word
 E03.A-V.4.1.2 Literal vs nonliteral meanings of words in context
 E03.A-V.4.1.2 Shades of meaning in related words (knew vs believed vs suspected vs
heard)