3rd Grade Descriptive Nonfiction Text Reading Comprehension Passages
5.0 (5 reviews)Teaching descriptive nonfiction text structure doesn’t have to be overwhelming. This reading comprehension unit includes high-interest leveled passages, graphic organizers, keyword analyses, text-dependent reading response questions, and assessments. You will have everything you need to teach,…
- Grade
- Grade 3
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 56 Pages
- Answer key
- Included
- Teaching duration
- 2 Weeks
- Digital download
Description
Teaching descriptive nonfiction text structure doesn’t have to be overwhelming. This reading comprehension unit includes high-interest leveled passages, graphic organizers, keyword analyses, text-dependent reading response questions, and assessments. You will have everything you need to teach, reinforce, and assess descriptive text structure.
All components listed below are provided in print and digital versions.
3 Leveled Passages: High-interest and professionally written. Include nonfiction text features (Images, Diagrams, Infographics, Graphs, Charts, Illustrations, Tables, Maps, Captions, and Keywords)
3 Graphic Organizers: Graphic organizers that are customized for each passage. Provide a visual representation of the text structure and passage, which helps with reading comprehension and writing skills.
3 Keyword Analyses: Students will find the specific cause-and-effect keywords and analyze how they are used in the articles. Keywords Analyses deepen student understanding of nonfiction text structures and help them build expository writing skills.
3 Reading Responses: 10 short-answer reading response questions for each passage. These text-dependent questions can be used for, Closed Reading, Guided Reading, Shared Reading, Independent Work, Writing/Journal Prompts
3 Assessments: Each passage comes with a 10-question multiple-choice assessment. Teachers can use these assessments at the end of each unit to direct further instruction.
What grade level is this resource designed for?
The passages in this resource are leveled between 640-740 Lexile. This Lexile range typically aligns with third-grade students reading near grade level. Teachers can use this resource with students in other grades if the Lexile level is appropriate. There are no grade-level labels or indicators on the student pages of this resource.
Other Third-Grade Nonfiction Text Structure Units:
- Cause and Effect
- Compare and Contrast
- Descriptive
- Order and Sequence (Chronological Order)
- Problem and Solution
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Good resource to reinforce grammar skills with students.
This grammar bundle has quickly become my go to curriculum for grammar. I absolutely love it. I start out with showing the slides and having students participate. The next day two days, we work on task cards together. We do one assessment/practice sheet in class and one goes home for homework. We also complete the organizer/notes sheet. Each skill's resources are perfect for focusing on for a full week. This has become a game changer for me in teacher grammar to my 3rd grade class. Thank you so much! Update: The suffixes sketch notes does not print properly. The seller recommended using Adobe; this did not work for me (tried at home). My school system does not allow me to download it either. Every other one opens and prints properly. Additionally, a few fonts may need to be downloaded in order for the slides to work properly. While I love this resource, I more so love receiving a "plug and play" product after paying a healthy amount for it. I have updated my review due to the hassle. I've wasted so much time just trying to print one page without the answers showing up on the student's worksheet.
When I imagine "sketch notes" I envision something with more graphics to it. These notes feel like organized chaos and are not very user friendly for my learning disabled students.
<p>HelloHeidi! Thanks for the feedback. I provide full previews of each set of notes included in this bundle so that teachers can assess whether the resource is suitable for their students. </p><p></p>
It's very cumbersome for students with disabilities. I have used it, however, to ask critical thinking questions.
Once kids got the hang of lap books, this resource was useful for meeting the diverse learning needs in the classroom.
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