Read and Understand: Tall Tales, Grades 3-4 - Teacher Reproducibles, E-book

The mythology of the American frontier comes to life again in Read & Understand, Tall Tales, Grades 3-4 which is populated by bigger-than-life heroes whose incredible exploits hold a timeless appeal for young readers, making them ideal focal points for learning and discussion.

This volume features 22 two-to-three-page stories that vary in reading difficulty from beginning third through beginning fifth grade to meet a range of needs.

Practice activities for every story include:

• a comprehension page
• a vocabulary page

There are two pages for practice of skills such as, character analysis and figures of speech that include:

• similes
• idioms
• alliteration
• sequence of events
• quotation marks
• parts of speech

These exercises challenge students to:

• recall details
• draw conclusions
• make inferences
• make comparisons
• consider word meanings