Text Based Writing, Grade 3

By Evan Moor Educational Publishers

Ideal practice for improving your third-grade students' writing competencies and preparing them for writing assessments, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as:

- Compare and contrast

- Sequence

Explanatory

- Informative

- Cause and effect

- Opinion

- Argument

The 15 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:

- a dictionary page that introduces content words

- close reading of a leveled nonfiction article

- text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding

- a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing

- a text-dependent writing prompt

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features

- The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.

- The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy

The leveled nonfiction reading selections cover:

- Biographies

- Health articles

- Science articles

- Social studies articles

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1645143538
• ISBN13: 9781645143536
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 4