Grade 3 English Language Arts · Level 3, Understand Informational Text and Explain Ideas

Ask and Answer with Informational Evidence

Ask and answer questions about informational text and refer explicitly to text evidence.

How the lesson starts: Ask and Answer with Informational Evidence

Detective Juno's rule
Meet Detective Juno, a hedgehog with a very big magnifying glass. Juno solves Question Cases about real animals. Her one rule is simple. The answer must come from the text. Today you become her partner!
Hunt for the key word
Question: what do otters eat? Juno grabs the key word, eat. She scans the text for it. Found it! Otters eat clams, crabs, and sea urchins. That sentence answers the question.
Let's solve a how case
Question: how does an otter open hard shells? Juno picks the key words: open, shells. She scans. An otter cracks hard shells open with a rock. So the answer is: with a rock! Not with its teeth. The text says rock.