Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Grade 3

After reading brief nonfiction passages about science, geography, or history topics, students answer multiple choice and short answer questions to build seven essential comprehension skills.

The top-selling teacher resource line, The 100+ Series(TM) features over 100 reproducible activities in each book! Amazing, interesting, and fun-filled facts are among the building blocks used in the development of these high-interest readings that apply to the everyday lives of students. The wide range of readings and activities were designed to strengthen student comprehension skills that include following directions, drawing conclusions, visualizing, summarizing, sequencing, categorizing, using context clues, and Venn diagrams. A great, reproducible supplement to your classroom reading curriculum!

High-interest, nonfiction articles help students learn about science and social studies topics while developing skills in reading comprehension. Each story is followed by questions that cover main idea, details, vocabulary, and critical reasoning. The format is similar to that of standardized tests, so as students progress through the book s units, they are preparing for success in testing.

Boost your students' reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills using all kinds of high-interest nonfiction sources. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these ready-to-reproduce passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day -- and succeed on standardized tests! Book jacket.

With the increased focus on literacy in the classroom, it is more important than ever to provide students with interesting reading activities. These reading activities should help develop students' fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This book has been written thematically. The use of themes increases reading comprehension kills by focusing students' attention on one subject rather than having to adjust their thoughts to several. The activities reinforce comprehension skill such as finding the main idea, summarizing, inferencing, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, and classification. The activities include a variety of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and long answer questions.

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