Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RI.3.4: Determine words and phrases that complete literal sentences in a text.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RI.3.4 - Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area. (See grade 3 Language standards 4-6 for additional expectations.) CA

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

When provided with language cues, the student can pay attention to the entire object, a characteristic of the object, or an action the object can perform.

Distal Precursor

The student can demonstrate understanding of object names and the words designated for absent objects or people through eye gaze, movement, noise, or other interaction.

Proximal Precursor

The student can make judgments about pairs of words with similar or different meanings.

Target

By using surrounding context, the student is able to select the correct word or phrase when asked to complete a literal sentence from the text.

Successor

When using the surrounding context, the student can identify simple semantic definitions for unambiguous words in a text.