Support your 3rd graders in close reading practice that supports Common Core methodology. Each unit pairs leveled text sets and provides vocabulary, oral discussion, and writing activities. Downloadable home-school connection activities are included. This series provides rigorous reading, writing, and vocabulary activities for paired nonfiction and fiction texts. Each unit helps students:
• Read a range of text types
• Access complex text
• Find and use text evidence
• Analyze the texts through discussion
• Write about the paired texts using opinion, argument, informative, and explanatory forms