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
• 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.
Features- Text-Based Writing, Grade 3 supports 3rd-grade students with scaffolded text-based writing practice!
- Includes lessons that include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms.
- Includes 15 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels L to P.
- Provides reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
- Includes a student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
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