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 answerMain idea and detailsCause and effectCompare and contrastTime orderIllustrated 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 OSocial Studies:
"It's a Grand Old Flag" Level O"The Mystery of Mesa Verde" Level O"About Banks" Level PGeography:
"The Great Lakes" Level NBiography:
"Sandra Day O'Connor" Level L"Barack Obama" Level MTechnology:
"The Zipper" Level PEach unit includes:
Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objectiveA dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabularyA close-reading activityA comprehension and vocabulary activityAn oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussionA text structure analysis activityA culminating text-based writing activityAdditional teacher resources:
Overview article and writing prompts chartFive elements of nonfiction text chartFive structures of nonfiction textAn answer keyAbout Evan-Moor
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