3rd Grade Reading

These reference tabs are the perfect way to have your students have their own little tabbed sheets to find information about characters, setting, plot structure, point of view, theme and summarizing fiction! These are a great addition to their reading notebooks or journals or can be used as a stand alone reference booklet. Great to use during independent reading time, small group and whole group lessons.

Are you looking to save yourself a TON of time AND throughly teach your students main idea? I have 12 fully planned small group lesson plans to help teach your upper elementary students identiying main idea. Includes ready to print scripted lesson plans, anchor charts, reading passages & reading response worksheets. All these main idea activities teaches a different aspect of nonfiction main idea.

Do you struggle to teach reading small group? I have ALL the lesson plans you need to teach reading strategies in upper elementary! Included in this bundle is 41 lesson plans to teach your students about summarizing, point of view, setting, plot, characters and identifying theme! They are ready to print and include everything you need to teach reading strategy groups. Includes reading comprehension passages, graphic organizers, mini anchor charts and so much more!

I LOVE these point of view small group lesson plans, they have made my teacher life SO much easier! These reading strategy group lesson plans are ready to print and have a guide to walk you right through teaching point of view in the upper elementary classroom! This amazing reading resource comes with 6 complete lesson plans to teach identifying and understanding point of view. Great for 3rd grade, 4th grade and 5th grade reading block.

Do you use the center model for reading? I remember how challenging this was for me the first few years I was a teacher. I wasn't sure how to fit it all in and to keep it engaging for ALL my students. In this podcast, I will talk about the 3 biggest challenges of the traditional model of centers, easy ways to make this model work for you AND your students as well as how to give your students choice when it comes to centers. Listen in to improve your reading centers!

Help your students grow as readers by helping them setting meaningful reading goals. This blog post is a must read for any elementary teacher! Help your students set goals that are managable, timely, measurable and of course, FUN! Sara from Stellar Teacher Company has some great tips & ideas on how to set reading goals along with a great FREEBIE!

I love finding a way to make my bulletin boards engaging and interactive for my students. My thinking is, if I'm going to display something on my walls, I might as well make it useful for my students. If you are looking for a way to make your reading bulletin board more engaging and interactive, check out this blog post.

These fiction reading passages focus on a specific reading skill which makes it SO easy to teach reading in upper elementary. In this bundle you will find reading comprehension passages for understanding characters, understanding story settings, plot, point of view, identifying theme & summarizing fiction. Includes reading comprehension worksheets, graphic organizers & reading response questions to help your students understand each reading skill!

How often do you use task cards in your classroom? While they are often used as part of reading center, workstation, or early finisher work, they are actually a really useful too to boost reading comprehension in your upper elementary students. In this blog post, I share some of my best tips for using reading task cards to boost comprehension.

Teaching reading can be such a challenge, but it doesn't have to be. In this blog post I talk about five of the most important comprehension strategies we should be teaching our students at the start of every year.

This board is full of 3rd grade reading comprehension activities, lesson plans, and literacy resources aligned with structured literacy and the science of reading. You will find third grade reading lessons for fiction and nonfiction, close reading passages, vocabulary instruction, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and task cards. These 3rd grade reading activities support explicit instruction, knowledge building, and strong comprehension skills in upper elementary classrooms.

Print & go small group lessons plans for teaching setting! These detailed reading lesson plans include reading passages, mini anchor charts & graphic organizers to help your students understand story settings. These lesson plans will have your upper elementary students engaged and it will save you a TON of time! Includes 5 full lesson plans to help you teach story settings in small groups & strategy groups.

Check out this list of mentor texts to help you launch reading workshop! To be honest, you can really use ANY read aloud when launching reading workshop, but it's best to create a classroom culture & norms as well as students learn to read, talk about & write a variety of texts. I have put together a list of 10 of my favorite texts across multiple genres to help you launch an exciting and engaging reading workshop.

Get ready to launch a smooth and successful reader's workshop with this free teacher guide. In this guide I share an outline for reader's workshop and give you 15 ideas for your first three weeks of mini-lessons. In just three short weeks, your students will develop the habits and behaviors that will make them life long readers.

These plot and story setting small group strategy lessons and passages are such a time saver for teachers! There are 10 premade lesson plans to help you teach plot structure and story settings in upper elementary. Includes a scripted teacher lesson plan, mini anchor charts to help teach the concept, reading passages & reading response pages. If you are new to strategy groups, I have also included a 2 page professional development explanation of how to run them in your classroom!