Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts a variety of practice activities and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill strategy and genre introduced with a simple teach practice and assess approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students overall comprehension and test-taking skills. Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts Include: Main Idea and Details Text Features and Visual Information Description Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Sequence Problem and Solution Predict Vocabulary Summarize Fact and Opinion Make Inferences Author s Purpose Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts Include: Character Setting Plot Theme Point of View Predict Vocabulary Visual Information Summarize Make Inferences Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Dialogue Simile and Metaphor Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction persuasive nonfiction narrative nonfiction and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction realistic fiction fables and fairy tales. Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students needs. This resource contains teacher support pages reproducible student pages and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only. About Evan-Moor A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.