Ideal practice for improving your third-grade students writing competencies and preparing them for writing assessments, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as:- Compare and contrast
- Sequence
- Explanatory
- Informative
- Cause and effect
- Opinion
- Argument
The 15 units provide activities 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:
- 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
Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
- The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts
- The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!
The leveled nonfiction reading selections cover:
- Biographies
- Health articles
- Science articles
- Social studies articles
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