Reading Comprehenion Paired Text

An ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills!

Reading comprehension practice boosts students’ competencies across the curriculum. Includes 8 paired text units with science, social studies, and civics topics. Each unit has an essential question and vocabulary, reading, and writing activities that help students examine texts and engage in discussions. Also includes unit assessments.

Reading Comprehension: Paired Text is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills with your third-grade students.

These paired text units provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Each unit contains two thematically related selections that are focused around an essential question.

Each selection includes:

• vocabulary development in context
• an oral close reading discussion
• comprehension questions
• a writing prompt

The unit assessment includes discussion of the topic, texts, and essential question, as well as a pre-writing graphic organizer and culminating writing prompt.

Additional features:

• student objectives
• topic introductions
• lesson plans
• an answer key

Revised and updated editions!  This resource includes updates to the content.

176 reproducible pages Correlated to current standards.