Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards! Each unit prepares students to complete a text-dependent writing prompt with activities that include close reading, vocabulary, and text-dependent questions. Downloadable home–school connection activities extend learning at home.
Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your third-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards!
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
- Argument
The 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 prompt
Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features:
- Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
- The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
- The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes caffolding easy!
The leveled nonfiction reading selections cover:
- Biographies
- Health articles
- Science articles
- Social studies articles
This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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