Text-Based Writing Nonfiction, Grade 3

Description

Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your third-grade students for state
writing assessments and meeting new standards!This series offers scaffolded
text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such
as:Compare and contrast SequenceExplanatoryInformativeCause and
effectOpinionArgumentThe 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 wordsclose reading of a leveled
nonfiction articletext-dependent comprehension questions to support
understandinga graphic organizer to help students organize information from
the article and plan their writinga text-dependent writing promptTeachers will
appreciate these additional resources and features:Downloadable home–school
connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at
home.The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.The
suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes caffolding
easy!The leveled nonfiction reading selections cover:BiographiesHealth
articlesScience articlesSocial studies articlesThis resource contains teacher
support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource
(photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home
use only.About Evan-Moor A leader in PreK–8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor
has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our
mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that
motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum
while also inspiring a love of learning.

Features:

• Excellent writing series aligned to CCSS
• Provides essential practice in reading nonfiction texts and responding to text-based writing prompts
• Helps students analyze nonfiction text, access complex text and study academic and content vocabulary
• Includes several leveled text excerpts from science, social studies, biographies and how-tos
• Writing prompts include opinion, sequence, compare and contrast and cause and effect

Product Details:

• Manufacturer: ‎Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Brand: ‎EVAN-MOOR
• Item Weight: ‎14.4 ounces
• Product Dimensions: ‎8.25 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches
• Item model number: ‎6033i
• Color: ‎Grade 3
• Number of Items: ‎1
• Paper Finish: ‎Matte
• Manufacturer Part Number: ‎EMC6033
• Date First Available: October 21, 2013