GR3 READING COMPREHENSION NONFICTIN

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage third-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more. 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 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 Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.