Reading Informational Text, Grade 3 Teacher Resource

Provide your third-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support current standards learning paths!

The informational texts cover 3rd grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.

What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:

• 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 to current standards is 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 for 3rd grade cover:

Science Articles: Big, Wild Cats! (Compare and Contrast); Plants of the Rainforest (Main Idea and Details); Two Climates (Compare and Contrast)

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

Geography Article: The Great Lakes (Cause and Effect)

Biography Articles: Sandra Day O'Connor (Time Order); Barack Obama (Time Order)

Technology Article: The Zipper (Cause and Effect)

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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