English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 3
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Key Ideas and Details
[RL.3.2] - Retell stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in a text.
- Diverse
(1) Differing from one another, unlike (as in texts presenting diverse perspectives); (2) composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities (as in a diverse population). - Fable
Short, simple narrative that teaches a lesson; usually includes as characters animals that talk and act like people. See Traditional literature. - Folktale
Short narrative handed down through oral tradition, with various tellers and groups modifying it so that it acquires cumulative authorship. Most folktales eventually move from oral to written form. See Traditional literature. - Main/central idea
Concept illustrated or position taken by a text as a whole, whether stated explicitly (as in a how-to guide explaining a process or an essay defending a thesis) or conveyed implicitly (as in a novel or collection of short stories illustrating a theme). - Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Moral
Simple type of theme or lesson taught in a work such as a fable: for example, Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. - Myth
Narrative passed down through generations, intended to help explain why the world is the way it is. See Traditional literature - Narrative
Is designed to relate events or experiences; may be primarily imaginative, as in a short story or novel, or primarily factual, as in a newspaper account or a work of history.
[RL.3.8] -
(Not applicable. For expectations regarding central messages or lessons in stories, See Reading Literature Standard 2.)