Text Based Writing, Grade 3

Ideal practice for improving your third-grade students' writing competencies and preparing them for writing assessments, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as:

• Compare and contrast
• Sequence
• Explanatory
• Informative
• Cause and effect
• Opinion
• Argument

The 15 units provide activities 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:

• 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

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!

• The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts
• The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!

The leveled nonfiction reading selections cover:

• Biographies
• Health articles
• Science articles
• Social studies articles