Informational Texts for Striving Readers: Grade 3

Informational Texts for Striving Readers: Grade 3
Author: Michael Priestley
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781338714647

Expand students' reading skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts and companion comprehension questions that meet core standards.

Hi-lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers

Hi-lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers
Author: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439694971

Reproducible passages, grouped by reading strategies, come with test-formatted questions

100 Task Cards: Text Evidence

100 Task Cards: Text Evidence
Author: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781338113013

Give students the tools they need to meet--and exceed--the new language-arts standards in just ten minutes a day! Each book in this series contains 100 reproducible cards stocked with high-interest mini-passages and key questions to quickly hone comprehension skills. Focus topics include main idea and details, making inferences, summarizing, predicting, citing text evidence, author's purpose, and much more. Perfect for whole-class, group, or independent learning.

From Striving to Thriving

From Striving to Thriving
Author: Stephanie Harvey
Publisher: Scholastic Professional
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781338051964

Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstrate how to "table the labels" and use detailed formative assessments to craft targeted, personalized instruction that enable striving readers to do what they need above all - to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading.

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061972150

Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

Inside Information

Inside Information
Author: Nell K. Duke
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780545667685

A leading authority in using informational text shows teachers how to develop project-based units on reading, writing, and researching major text types--informative/explanatory, persuasive, procedural/how-to, nonfiction narrative, and biographical.

I Spy Animals

I Spy Animals
Author: Jean Marzollo
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780545415835

An I Spy 8x8 at $3.99 I SPY ANIMALS is based on the bestselling I SPY LITTLE ANIMALS. Toddlers and preschoolers can search photos from the original I Spy series for all kinds of animals. Simple picture clues and rhyming riddles guide the youngest readers through 13 interactive, fun-filled spreads.

Hi-Lo Passages to Build Comprehension

Hi-Lo Passages to Build Comprehension
Author: Michael Priestley
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439548878

Provides high-interest reading passages along with exercises to help struggling readers.

25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core: Literature and Informational Texts, Grade 3

25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core: Literature and Informational Texts, Grade 3
Author: Martin Lee
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780545577090

With the rigorous reading standards called for in the Common Core State Standards, teachers need easy access to reading passages at an increasing level of complexity so students will have opportunities to read closely and stretch their skills as the school year progresses. This collection of passages offers just that. Each of the 25 passages comes with text-dependent comprehension questions, including open-ended questions that require students to use higher-order thinking skills when writing their responses. The lessons include teaching tips that target the challenges students will encounter in the passage and provide text-complexity information-- quantitative (Lexile level), qualitative, and reader and task considerations--to help teachers meet the needs of their class. For use with Grade 2.