Evan-Moor Reading Literary Text, Grade 3 (Reading Literary Text: Common Core Lessons)

Help your third-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills!
 
Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as poetry, mystery, historical fiction, and folk tale, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including:

• Dictionary page to introduce content and academic vocabulary 
• Close reading activity and close reading discussion
• Learn and apply activities covering vocabulary, the literature genre, and literary analysis
• Reading comprehension activity
• Literary response writing activity

 
Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
• Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
• A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

 
The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:

• Aesop’s Fable: “Country Mouse and City Mouse”
• Mystery: “How Do You Spell Beware?”
• Folk Tale: “The Mitten”
• Classic Fiction: “Rebecca’s School Day”
• Fairy Tale: “Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon”
• Tall Tale: “Davy Crockett Escapes a Tornado”
• Poetry and Song: “The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day”
• Historical Fiction: “Lunch with Diego”
• Greek Legend: “Damon and Pythias”

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