Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 3

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.

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

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

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.

Key Features:

• Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 3 builds strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!
• Teaches reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your third-grade students!
• Contains nonfiction texts that include a variety of content-area topics.
• Includes teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.
• Includes an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion

These Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 3 in Black, White are ideal for classroom learning and instruction.