Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RI.3.3: Order two events from a text as first and next.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RI.3.3 - Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

The student can identify a forward sequence in a routine that they are familiar with (e.g., observed, participated in).

Distal Precursor

The student can identify actions that are associated with routines that they are familiar with (e.g., observed, participated in).

Proximal Precursor

The student can identify events that occur in a familiar informational text.

Target

The student can use context clues to identify which of two events comes first within the text.

Successor

The student can identify temporal information or events using clues in the context (e.g., first, next, then, last, night, day) in an informational text.