Read and Understand, Stories and Activities, Grade 3

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