Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your third-grade students!Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!Text structures include:Question and answerMain idea and detailsCause and effectCompare and contrastTime orderIllustrated nonfiction texts in the grade 3 book include a variety of content-area topics:Science:”Big, Wild Cats!” Level L”Plants of the Rainforest” Level N”Two Climates” Level OSocial Studies:”It?s a Grand Old Flag” Level O”The Mystery of Mesa Verde” Level O”About Banks” Level PGeography:”The Great Lakes” Level NBiography:”Sandra Day O?Connor” Level L”Barack Obama” Level MTechnology:”The Zipper” Level PEach unit includes:Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objectiveA dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabularyA close-reading activityA comprehension and vocabulary activityAn oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussionA text structure analysis activityA culminating text-based writing activityAdditional teacher resources:Overview article and writing prompts chartFive elements of nonfiction text chartFive structures of nonfiction textAn answer key