Reading Teaching Resources for 3rd Grade
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Compare and Contrast - Venn Diagram Template
A template to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast.
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Poetry Anchor Chart With Annotations
Use this poetry anchor chart to introduce your students to the structure and language features of poems through an annotated example.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Question/Sentence Starter Cards
A set of reading question and sentence starter cards aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Multiple Meanings Vocabulary Worksheet
A worksheet to use in the classroom when identifying multiple-meaning words.
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Schwa Words Interactive Activity
Teach schwa words to your students with this interactive drag-and-drop activity that helps identify the schwa sound in unstressed syllables.
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What Is Schwa? Teaching Slides
Explore schwa in words with this engaging teaching slide deck that helps students recognize, understand and apply the schwa sound when reading and spelling.
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Multisyllabic Words with a Schwa Lists
Teach words with a schwa using targeted word lists that help students recognize this common vowel sound pattern and build stronger decoding, spelling and word analysis skills.
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Schwa Anchor Chart
Download this schwa anchor chart to help students recognize and understand the most common vowel sound in English, building confidence when reading, spelling and decoding unfamiliar words.
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Verb Suffixes Teaching Slides (s, ed, ing)
Teach verb suffixes to your class with ease using this engaging slide deck that helps students understand when to apply the suffixes -s, -ed and -ing to change verb tense.
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Expert Observers - Scientists Reading Passage Pack
Boost reading skills and introduce your students to a world of expert observers with a set of printable Expert Observers Reading Comprehension Worksheets.
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How Rockets Work - Reading Comprehension Worksheet Pack
Explore space science and the world of rocketry with a printable How Rockets Work Comprehension Worksheet Pack.
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Verb Suffixes Worksheets (s, ed, ing)
Download these suffix worksheets to help students confidently identify and apply the verb tense suffixes -s, -ed and -ing.
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Five Senses Imagery Teaching Slides
Teach five senses imagery with an engaging slide deck that helps students understand how authors use descriptive language to create vivid mental pictures and richer reading experiences.
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Sound Wall Classroom Interactive Bulletin Board
Print a complete Sound Wall designed to help you enhance your phonics program by displaying the phonemes your students are currently mastering.
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List of Sound Devices
Download this list of sound devices in poetry to help students recognize, understand and confidently use sound techniques that bring poems to life.
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Classroom Alphabet Poster Pack
Create your own classroom alphabet line with these ink-friendly classroom alphabet posters.
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Reading Goals Tracking Display
Encourage students to track and celebrate achievement with a Reading Goals Bulletin Board.
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Learning About the Main Idea Teaching Slides - 3rd Grade
Help students understand how to work out the main idea in texts with this set of teaching slides.
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Opinion Essay Structure Escape Room – Mission Persuasion!
Teach opinion essay structure with this engaging escape-room game that helps students build a series of strong, convincing arguments.
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Adapt a Short Story – Write the Ending
Get your students to write the ending of an existing story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Adapt a Short Story – Change the Narrative Setting
Explore the role the narrative setting plays within a story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet for elementary students.
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Building Tension in Narrative Writing Teaching Slides
Teach how to build tension in narrative writing with this interactive presentation that explains eight author techniques for creating suspense and excitement in stories.
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Narrative Tension – Text Analysis Worksheets
Teach narrative tension with this set of three worksheets designed to help students explore how authors build suspense and keep readers hooked.
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Adapt a Short Story – Change the Complication
Explore the role the complication of a story plays within narrative structure with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Develop a Character Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to develop a character using the STEAL technique and other characterisation methods with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Character Description – Text Analysis Worksheets
Teach character description with this set of four worksheets that help students explore how authors use the STEAL technique to bring characters to life.
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Narrative Mood Teaching Slides
Explore narrative mood with this interactive presentation that helps students understand what mood is, why it matters and how to create it in their own writing.
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Examples of Story Settings Teaching Slides
Discover engaging examples of story settings with this teaching presentation that introduces students to ten classic settings in children’s literature.
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Character Archetypes Teaching Slides
Download this character archetypes slide deck to help your students identify and analyze common character types in literature.
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Story Archetypes Teaching Slides
Teach story archetypes with this engaging slide deck that introduces students to ten of the most common plot patterns in literature.
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Story Settings Booklet
Explore common story settings in literature with this engaging 8-page mini book that helps students analyze settings from their own reading.
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Character Archetypes Booklet
Download this engaging 8-page character archetype mini book that helps students analyze a character from a book they have recently read.