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 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 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 activityAdditional teacher resources:
Overview article and writing prompts chart Five elements of nonfiction text chart Five structures of nonfiction text An answer keyAbout Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
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Language Arts