Read and Understand: Stories and Activities, Grade 3 - Teacher Reproducibles, E-book

This hands-on resource book, Read and Understand, Stories and Activities, Grade 3, contains 21 reproducible stories of different genre and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills. The one-and two-page stories vary in reading difficulty from mid-second through beginning-fourth grade levels to meet the range of needs in an average third-grade classroom.

Each story consists of:

• one or two reproducible pages of text with fun illustrations  
• five pages of activities for practicing reading skills

The five activity pages practice skills such as:

• comprehension
• vocabulary development
• word attack skills
• phonics
• recording information

Stories span these genres:

• folk tales
• fairy tales
• realistic fiction
• nonfiction
• myths & legends
• poetry
• fantasy

Comprehension questions cover:

• recalling story details
• drawing conclusions
• making inferences and predictions
• sequencing events
• generalizing
• comparing & contrasting

Other skills covered include:

• compound words
• contractions
• base word, prefixes and suffixes
• syllables
• possessive forms
• parts of speech
• categorizing