Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Education | $2.99 | Ventura Educational Systems | iPad |
Understanding informational text is essential to literacy. To help young readers develop this skill, twelve fun, high-interest passages about plants, animals, space and technology, written at the third grade reading level, are presented:
• Curb the Carp
• Beads from Outer Space
• Can You Be Too Clean?
• Frozen Frogs
• Is There Life on Mars?
• Mallgulls
• Musical Mice
• Power Flour
• Project Puffin
• How to Hide a Volcano
• Bye-Bye, Voyager 1
• Jenya the Wooly Mammoth
Each passage is followed by three engaging activities based on the following Common Core Standards for Grade 3 Language Arts:
• comprehension
• vocabulary
• main idea and supporting details
• drawing conclusions
• making inferences
• summarizing
• synonyms and antonyms
• multiple meanings words
• fact vs. opinion
• genre
• author's purpose
• compare and contrast
• text features
The Reading Skills 3B follow-up activities for each of the 12 passages are described below:
Word Fun - a clue is given along with the scrambled letters of a vocabulary word from the passage. The challenge is to unscramble the letters to spell the word.
Science Facts - helps improve recall and comprehension. Students read a statement and tap either True or False based on the contents of the passage.
Skills Practice - Students practice reading comprehension skills by answering multiple choice questions.
A record-keeping component keeps track of the student’s scores on all of the activities.