Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 3

Reading comprehension practice boosts third-grade students’ competencies across the curriculum. Includes 8 paired text units with science, social studies, and civics topics. Each unit has an essential question and vocabulary, reading, and writing activities that help students examine texts and engage in discussions. Also includes unit assessments. Reading Comprehension: Paired Text grade 3 is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills with your third-grade students.

These grade 3 paired text units provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Each unit contains two thematically related selections that are focused around an essential question.

Each selection includes:
• vocabulary development in context
• an oral close reading discussion
• comprehension questions
• a writing prompt

The unit assessment includes discussion of the topic, texts, and essential question, as well as a pre-writing graphic organizer and culminating writing prompt.

Additional features:
• student objectives
• topic introductions
• lesson plans
• an answer key

Grade 3 paired text social studies units include:

The Value of Volunteering:
"Volunteer Your Time" Level L
"Victory Dance" Level M

A Place to Call Home:
"Why Live Near a River?" Level N
"New Land, New Life" Level N

Meeting the Father of a Country:
"The Generals and Their Dogs" Level O
"The Legend of the Cherry Tree" Level O

Picturing the World:
"Putting the Pieces Together" Level P
"The Edge of the World" Level O

Grade 3 paired text science units include:

Changing with Our Surroundings:
"Meat-Eating Plants" Level N
"The Tiger and the Jackals" Level L

Water, Weather, and Winter:
"Water All Around Us" Level M
"Panika’s Favorite Season" Level O

Observing Our World and Beyond:
"New Invention, New Universe" Level O
"SpaceBook Friends" Level N

Growing Up, Growing Strong:
"Growing with Gravity" Level P
"Lean Green Beans" Level M

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Paired Text and includes updates to the content.

Reading/Language Arts : Comprehension

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Grade: Grade 3

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