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

Integrate Pictures, Maps, Charts, and Words

Use information from illustrations, maps, photographs, diagrams, tables, or charts together with text to demonstrate understanding.

How the lesson starts: Integrate Pictures, Maps, Charts, and Words

1. The two-key chest

   Captain Ines the llama found a treasure chest. Her first clue is a diagram, a picture with labels. Labels name each part and tell its job. Let's read the labels to find the key!

2. Read the labels

   Here are the labels from a diagram of a lighthouse. The lamp shines a bright light. The tower holds the lamp up high. The door lets the keeper inside. The base keeps the tower steady. Labels tell the name and job of each part.

3. Let's use the diagram

   Question: which part keeps the lighthouse steady? Ines finds the key word, steady. She reads the job next to each label. Lamp, no. Tower, no. Door, no. Base: keeps the tower steady. The answer is the base!