North Dakota Grade 3 English

Find Shared Key Details

Find important points across two original Grade 3 information texts about a reading corner, with North Dakota English references and printable practice. Connect this activity with the school’s wider literacy sequence.

Curriculum reference: North Dakota English Language Arts Content Standards, June 2023, from the NDDPI English Language Arts standards page.

North Dakota Grade 3 references for this activity

NDDPI’s current English Language Arts page links the June 2023 K–12 standards. The document organizes literacy through foundations, communication, reading, writing, and inquiry/research; foundations apply through Grade 6, while later grades extend reading, writing, communication, and inquiry. Selected references here use the state document’s own grade and strand codes. Read the school’s complete course sequence alongside the full standards rather than treat one activity as an entire literacy program.

These selected reference labels identify an activity focus, with the correct grade and PDF page linked separately. Read the complete standards selected by the school and its learning sequence, including reading, writing, language, speaking, and listening. This short original example does not fulfill the entire curriculum or establish a student’s grade-level proficiency.

Two notes about one reading corner

This original classroom example is separate from official assessment questions.

Text A — The class note: The reading corner has a basket of short books and a mat beside the window. Readers choose a book and return it to the basket afterward. Keeping books together makes the next choice easier.

Text B — The helper’s note: Before the next reading session, the helper checks that the books are in the basket and that the mat has space for readers. A book left on the mat belongs back in the basket.

Try the activity

What important point do both notes make about the books? Give a key detail from each. What does the helper’s note add that the class note does not directly say?

Follow the reasoning

Both notes explain how returning books to the basket keeps the reading corner ready for another session. Text A directly asks readers to return a chosen book and explains the benefit for the next choice. Text B describes the helper’s check and gives the example of a book left on the mat. It adds responsibility for checking the space before a session. A useful response identifies the shared point and supports it from both notes, rather than select an unrelated detail such as the window alone. The notes describe roles in a routine; neither says that the helper must do every reader’s returning for them.

Notice what needs more practice

The two notes are invented information texts about one classroom routine. They do not report how consistently anyone follows it. A shared detail may be important because it supports the topic, not because it appears most often. Do not claim that a basket itself guarantees students will read more.

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Use the next session to build independence

1. Identify the topic shared by both notes.
2. Select a key detail from each that supports one important point.
3. Explain what the second note adds.

Compare two teacher-selected information texts about a familiar place or activity. State a shared important point and choose evidence from both. Identify one detail relevant to only one text’s purpose.

For more general reading and writing resources, visit the Grade 3 English Online Center.

North Dakota Grade 3 English: useful planning questions

Must both texts say exactly the same thing?

No. They can share a topic and important point while supplying different details or explaining different roles.

Which standards does the school use?

NDDPI’s current English Language Arts page links the June 2023 K–12 standards. The document organizes literacy through foundations, communication, reading, writing, and inquiry/research; foundations apply through Grade 6, while later grades extend reading, writing, communication, and inquiry. Selected references here use the state document’s own grade and strand codes. Read the school’s complete course sequence alongside the full standards rather than treat one activity as an entire literacy program. The school’s sequence also includes reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language work beyond this example.