Text-Based Writing Grade 3

Text-Based Writing Grade 3Support 3rd grade students with scaffolded text based writing practice! Lessons include leveled texts with science, social studies, and health topics, as well as comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and more. 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

Support 3rd-grade students with scaffolded text-based writing practice! Lessons include leveled texts with science, social studies, and health topics, as well as comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and more. 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 Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content.
Product Type: Spelling Skills
Recommended Grade: Grade 3
Recommended Age: 8+ Years
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