Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 3 Teacher Resource

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 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 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 activity
Additional teacher resources: - Overview article and writing prompts chart - Five elements of nonfiction text chart - Five structures of nonfiction text - An answer key
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Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed!
Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK-8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.