Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction, Grade 3

By Evan-Moor Educational Publsihers

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 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 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 activity

Additional teacher resources:

Overview article and writing prompts chartFive elements of nonfiction text chartFive structures of nonfiction textAn answer key

About Evan-Moor

A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1645143368
• ISBN13: 9781645143369
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 4