Grade 3 Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction Teacher Resource Book

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

SEE SAMPLE PAGES HERE

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