Text-Based Writing

Ideal practice for improving your third-grade students' writing competencies and preparing them for writing assessments, 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>/p>- ArgumentThe 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- a text-dependent writing promptTeachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!- The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.>/p>- The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!The leveled nonfiction reading selections cover:- Biographies- Health articles- Science articles- Social studies articles