Description
Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 3 students become strong readers and writers!
Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms:
- Compare and contrast
- Sequence
- Explanatory
- Informative
- Cause and effect
- Opinion
- Argument
15 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels L to P and include:
- Biographies
- Health articles
- Science articles
- Social studies articles
Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
- directed reading strategies
- a dictionary page that introduces content words
- close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
- text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
- a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
- a text-dependent writing prompt
Additional resources and features for teachers include:
- Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels L to P
- A suggested teaching path that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction
- A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
- A vocabulary and definitions list
- A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit
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.
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Published: 12/01/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 10.79h x 8.35w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781645143536
ISBN10: 1645143538
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Language Arts
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Reading Skills