Overview
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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