3rd Grade Close Fiction and Nonfiction Reading to Master Comprehension Skills!

During each class a text is divided up into parts, and students take turns reading. We start the class with learning key vocabulary words, thinking about the title and making a prediction about what might happen in the story or what we might learn in an information passage. Students are given decoding strategies, such as breaking up long words into parts and trying vowel sounds both ways.

After we complete reading, we do activities with close reading tasks. The reading comprehension tasks are specifically aligned to the standards-based learning target for that day. 

The text and activites are posted in the classroom before each class to be printed at home.


Week of Sept. 2: Fiction: Story structure
Week of Sept. 9 : Nonfiction: Text features 

Week of Sept. 16: Fiction: Ask and answer questions
Week of Sept. 23: Nonfiction: Main idea and details

Week of Sept. 30: Fiction: Message, lesson, moral
Week of Oct. 7: Nonfiction: Author's reasons

Week of Oct. 14: Fiction: Theme
Week of Oct. 21: Nonfiction: Word meanings

Week of Oct. 28: Fiction: Characters, setting, plot
Week of Nov. 4 : Nonfiction: Connections

Week of Nov. 11: Fiction: Point of view
Week of Nov. 18: Nonfiction: Ask and answer questions

Week of Nov. 25: Fiction: Compare and contrast
Week of Dec. 2: Nonfiction: Compare and contrast