Reading Informational Text, Grade 3 Teacher Resource

By Evan-Moor Educational Publishing

Provide your third grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice including close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities.

The informational texts cover grade-level content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.

Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including the following:
- dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary
- close reading activity
- reading comprehension activity
- vocabulary activity
- text structure activity

The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.

Additional teacher support includes:
- Correlations provided for every unit for easy reference
- Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.
- Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students

The informational texts and structures cover:

Science Articles
- Big, Wild Cats!
Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
- Plants of the Rainforest
Text Structure: Main Idea and Details
- Two Climates
Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

Social Studies Articles
- It's a Grand Old Flag
Text Structure: Main Idea and Details
- The Mystery of Mesa Verde
Text Structure: Time Order
- About Banks
Text Structure: Question and Answer

Geography Article
- The Great Lakes
Text Structure: Cause and Effect

Biography Articles
- Sandra Day O'Connor
Text Structure: Time Order
- Barack Obama
Text Structure: Time Order

Technology Article
- The Zipper
Text Structure: Cause and Effect

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613689918
• ISBN13: 9781613689912
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 4