Text-Based Writing, Grade 3

Includes lessons that include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms.
$18.60
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  • Model:
    EMC2453
  • Manufacturer: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

    • Description

    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.

    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

    Specifications

    • This black, white color product is made of or contains paper.
    • Product size: 8.5" x 11"
    • Recommended for children 8+ years old in Grade 3
    • Package contains: 1 book
    • Country of origin: USA