Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities! Engage third-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include nine fiction genres, reading selections and dictionaries, oral discussions, comprehension activities, literary analysis activities, and writing prompt activities. Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your third-grade students! Choose from nine units that span fiction genres or use them all! • Fable • Mystery • Folk tale • Classic fiction • Fairy tale • Tall tale • Poetry and song Historical fiction Greek legend Each unit includes: • Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective • One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations • Story dictionary with topic vocabulary and academic vocabulary • Close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities • Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion • Genre study activity and literary analysis activity Writing prompt activity Additional teacher resources: • Comprehensive vocabulary definitions • "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students • Literary genres chart • Literary elements and story structure chart • Overview of texts that includes the reading level, the genre, and the literary element or story structure The illustrated reading selections in this Grade 3 book are: • Aesop’s Fable: "Country Mouse and City Mouse," Level L • Mystery: "How Do You Spell Beware?" Level M • Folk Tale: "The Mitten," Level M • Classic Fiction: "Rebecca’s School Day," Level N • Fairy Tale: "Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon," Level N • Tall Tale: "Davy Crockett Escapes a Tornado," Level O • Poetry and Song: "The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving," Level O • Historical Fiction: "Lunch with Diego," Level P • Greek Legend: "Damon and Pythias," Level P Evan-Moor's Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills! Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.
