My Friend Jenny is Lactose Intolerant

  • Grade: Grade 3
    Activity type: Interactive Activity

My Friend Jenny is Lactose Intolerant

Course
English
Grade
Grade 3
Section
Reading Comprehension
Outcome
My Friend Jenny is Lactose Intolerant (narrative)
Activity Type
Interactive Activity
Activity ID
34465

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United States – Common Core State Standards

  • 2 – Grade 2
    • RL.2 – Reading: Literature

      • Literacy

        • RL.2.1 – Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

        • RL.2.2 – Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

        • RL.2.3 – Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

      • Literacy

        • RL.2.4 – Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

        • RL.2.5 – Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

        • RL.2.6 – Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

      • Literacy

        • RL.2.7 – Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

      • Literacy

        • RL.2.10 – By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

    • W.2 – Writing

      • Literacy

        • W.2.8 – Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

    • SL.2 – Speaking & Listening

      • Literacy

        • SL.2.2 – Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

        • SL.2.3 – Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.

        • SL.2.1 – Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

          • SL.2.1.a – Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

          • SL.2.1.b – Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.

          • SL.2.1.c – Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.

      • Literacy

        • SL.2.4 – Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

    • RF.2 – Reading: Foundational Skills

      • Literacy

        • RF.2.3 – Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

          • RF.2.3.a – Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

          • RF.2.3.b – Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

          • RF.2.3.c – Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

          • RF.2.3.d – Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.

          • RF.2.3.e – Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.

          • RF.2.3.f – Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

      • Literacy

        • RF.2.4 – Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

          • RF.2.4.a – Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

          • RF.2.4.b – Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.

          • RF.2.4.c – Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

    • L.2 – Language

      • Literacy

        • L.2.3 – Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

          • L.2.3.a – Compare formal and informal uses of English.

      • Literacy

        • L.2.4 – Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

          • L.2.4.a – Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

          • L.2.4.c – Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., addition, additional).

        • L.2.5 – Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

          • L.2.5.a – Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy).

  • 3 – Grade 3
    • RL.3 – Reading: Literature

      • Literacy

        • RL.3.10 – By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

    • RF.3 – Reading: Foundational Skills

      • Literacy

        • RF.3.3 – Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

          • RF.3.3.a – Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.

Australia – Australian Curriculum

  • Year 3
    • Language

      • Language for interaction

        • ACELA1476 – Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations

        • ACELA1477 – Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful

      • Text structure and organisation

        • ACELA1478 – Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their function and purpose, for example tense, mood, and types of sentences

        • ACELA1479 – Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts

        • ACELA1480 – Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters

        • ACELA1790 – Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation

      • Expressing and developing ideas

        • ACELA1481 – Understand that a clause is a unit of meaning usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement

        • ACELA1482 – Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense

        • ACELA1483 – Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments

        • ACELA1484 – Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs

        • ACELA1486 – Recognise high frequency sight words

    • Literature

      • Literature and context

        • ACELT1594 – Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors' reasons

      • Responding to literature

        • ACELT1596 – Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others

        • ACELT1598 – Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature

      • Examining literature

        • ACELT1599 – Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

        • ACELT1600 – Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader's reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose

      • Creating literature

        • ACELT1601 – Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students' own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

    • Literacy

      • Texts in context

        • ACELY1675 – Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view

      • Interacting with others

        • ACELY1676 – Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations

        • ACELY1792 – Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume

      • Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

        • ACELY1678 – Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

        • ACELY1679 – Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting

        • ACELY1680 – Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

  • Year 4
    • Language

      • Expressing and developing ideas

        • ACELA1494 – Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text

    • Literature

      • Literature and context

        • ACELT1602 – Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships

      • Responding to literature

        • ACELT1603 – Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

        • ACELT1604 – Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

      • Examining literature

        • ACELT1605 – Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers' interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension

New Zealand – National Standards

  • Y3 – Year 3
    • Y3.R – Reading

      • They draw on knowledge and skills that include:

        • Y3.R.1 – Automatically reading all high-frequency words

        • Y3.R.2 – Articulating and using a variety of decoding strategies appropriately when they encounter unfamiliar words (e.g., by recognising syllables within words or by applying their knowledge of regular and irregular spelling patterns)

        • Y3.R.5 – Applying their knowledge of word families, collocations, and sentence or phrase structures to find the meanings of unknown words

        • Y3.R.6 – Looking for information in visual language features (such as text boxes in non-fiction texts)

        • Y3.R.7 – Understanding the purpose of basic punctuation.

  • Y4 – Year 4
    • Y4.R – Reading

      • They draw on knowledge and skills that include:

        • Y4.R.1 – Automatically reading all high-frequency words

        • Y4.R.2 – Automatically selecting an appropriate decoding strategy when they encounter unknown words

        • Y4.R.4 – Working out the meanings of unfamiliar phrases and expressions (e.g., figures of speech) by drawing on their oral language and the context

        • Y4.R.5 – Recognising the features and purposes of some common text types and using this knowledge to navigate and understand texts

        • Y4.R.6 – Using visual language features to support their understanding of the ideas and information in the text.

        • Y4.R.3 – Working out the meanings of new words, using strategies such as:

          • Y4.R.3.a – Applying knowledge of the meanings of most common prefixes (e.g., over-, mis-, sub-, pre-, inter-, semi-, mid-) and most common suffixes (e.g., -ist, -ity, -ty, -ion, -able/-ible, -ness, -ment)

          • Y4.R.3.c – Inferring word meanings from known roots and affixes (e.g., by using the known meaning of tele- and -port to infer the meaning of teleport)

  • 3 – Year 3
    • 3.RS – The reading standard

      • Key characteristics of texts at gold level

        • 3.RS.1 – Texts at Gold level have been designed with characteristics that include:

          • 3.RS.1.a – Some unfamiliar contexts and settings

          • 3.RS.1.c – (in narrative texts) many characters and events and more than one storyline

          • 3.RS.1.d – A mix of explicit and implicit content within text and illustrations that requires students to make connections between ideas in the text and their prior knowledge in order to make simple inferences

          • 3.RS.1.f – Some unfamiliar words and phrases, the meaning of which is supported by the context or illustrations, including descriptive vocabulary, subject-specific vocabulary, and commonly used words that have multiple meanings

          • 3.RS.1.g – Visual language features such as subheadings, text boxes, footnotes, glossaries, indexes, and diagrams and maps that are clearly explained and linked to the body text

          • 3.RS.1.h – Ideas and information organised in paragraphs

          • 3.RS.1.i – A variety of sentence structures, including complex sentences

          • 3.RS.1.j – Frequent use of dialogue, some of which is not explicitly attributed, and more than one character speaking on a page.

  • 4 – Year 4
    • 4.RS – The reading standard

      • Key characteristics of texts that students read at this level

        • 4.RS.1 – The texts that students use to meet the reading demands of the curriculum at this level will often include:

          • 4.RS.1.a – Some abstract ideas that are clearly supported by concrete examples in the text or easily linked to the students’ prior knowledge

United Kingdom – National Curriculum

This activity is not included in United Kingdom – National Curriculum.

You can go to an overview of all the curricula here.