Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 3

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple â??teach, practice, and assessâ? approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve studentsâ?? overall comprehension and test-taking skills. Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Textsâ?¢ Main Idea and Detailsâ?¢ Text Features and Visual Informationâ?¢ Descriptionâ?¢ Cause and Effectâ?¢ Compare and Contrastâ?¢ Sequenceâ?¢ Problem and Solutionâ?¢ Predictâ?¢ Vocabularyâ?¢ Summarizeâ?¢ Fact and Opinionâ?¢ Make Inferencesâ?¢ Authorâ??s PurposeThird Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Textsâ?¢ Characterâ?¢ Settingâ?¢ Plotâ?¢ Themeâ?¢ Point of Viewâ?¢ Predict â?¢ Vocabularyâ?¢ Visual Informationâ?¢ Summarizeâ?¢ Make Inferencesâ?¢ Cause and Effectâ?¢ Compare and Contrastâ?¢ Dialogueâ?¢ Simile and MetaphorNonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction, realistic fiction, fables, and fairy tales.Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your studentsâ?? needs.