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Grade 3

CCSS ELA Standard: 3.RL.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

Author’s Voice: Rudyard Kipling

Author’s Voice: Rudyard Kipling

Every great author sounds like no one else. Students learn to hear an author’s voice with Beatrix Potter’s calm Peter Rabbit, then borrow Rudyard Kipling’s playful voice, turning a flat, boring passage into writing that sounds just like him. It is reading like a writer, and it is the kind of thinking your strongest readers are hungry for.