Reading Comprhension: Nonfiction, Grade 3
Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your third-grade students! This resource offers 10 units covering various text structures and topics, including science, social studies, geography, biography, and technology. Each unit includes teacher support pages, a dictionary, close-reading and comprehension activities, an oral close-reading activity, text structure analysis, and a writing activity. Additional resources include overview articles, writing prompts, and answer keys.
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Enhance your third-grade students' reading comprehension skills and understanding of nonfiction text structures with this comprehensive resource! Choose from 10 units covering a range of text structures and topics, or use them all for a well-rounded learning experience.
Text structures covered include:
- Question and answer
- Main idea and details
- Cause and effect
- Compare and contrast
- Time order
Explore a variety of content-area topics through nonfiction texts such as:
- 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
This revised edition replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content, ensuring your teaching materials are current and engaging.
Information
Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 3
Brand: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
UPC: 9781645143369