Evan-Moor Text-Based Writing Nonfiction, Grade 3

Evan-Moor Text-Based Writing Nonfiction, Grade 3

• 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

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, Sequence, Explanatory, Informative, Cause and effect, Opinion, and 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, and a text-dependent writing prompt.