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.