Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 3 Teacher Resource

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Series: Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage third-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.

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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

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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.

About the Author

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.