Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your third-grade students!
Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!
Text structures include:
Question and answer
Main idea and details
Cause and effect
Compare and contrast
Time order
Illustrated nonfiction texts in the grade 3 book include a variety of content-area topics:
Science:
"Big, Wild Cats!" Level L
"Plants of the Rainforest" Level N
"Two Climates" Level O
Social Studies:
"It's a Grand Old Flag" Level O
"The Mystery of Mesa Verde" Level O
"About Banks" Level P
Geography:
"The Great Lakes" Level N
Biography:
"Sandra Day O'Connor" Level L
"Barack Obama" Level M
Technology:
"The Zipper" Level P
Each unit includes:
Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary
A close-reading activity
A comprehension and vocabulary activity
An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
A text structure analysis activity
A culminating text-based writing activity
Additional teacher resources:
Overview article and writing prompts chart
Five elements of nonfiction text chart
Five structures of nonfiction text
An answer key
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