Informational Passages for Text Marking & Close Reading: Grade 3: 20 Reproducible Passages With Text-Marking Activities That Guide Students to Read Strategically for Deep Comprehension

Informational Passages for Text Marking & Close Reading: Grade 3: 20 Reproducible Passages With Text-Marking Activities That Guide Students to Read Strategically for Deep Comprehension

• Excellent reading comprehension series correlated to current Common Core State Standards
• Focuses on close reading of complex texts
• Passages are organized around key comprehension skills and high-interest topics connected to curriculum
• Formatted to provide practice with text marking to build comprehension skills
• Helps students find main idea and details, identify cause and effect and sequence events

<div>The higher standards students today are expected to meet call for literacy instruction that focuses on the close reading of complex texts. These informational text passages are organized around high-interest topics connected to the curriculum and to key comprehension skills. The readings are specially formatted to provide practice with text marking, a proven, powerful tool for building comprehension skills, such as finding main idea and details, identifying cause and effect, and sequencing events. For use with Grade 3.</div>