3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Summarizing: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Use a lesson that is designed to expand primary students' summarizing skills using the book Cloudy With a Chance of…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Main Idea: Chrysanthemum

Teach your students how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book Chrysanthemum with your class.

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Reading

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Reading and Literature

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Making Inferences, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

Use a lesson that is designed to teach primary students to make inferences as a reading comprehension with a strategy.…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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"Two Travelers and the Bear": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable

Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a fable by Aesop.

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Literature

Ancient Civilizations

Reading and Literature

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Asking Pre-Reading Questions

Students will learn about asking questions before reading and will make predictions based on the discussion of the…

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Reading and Literature

Reading Comprehension

Baseball

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Prior Knowledge: A House is a House for Me

Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on A House is a House for Me.

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Prior Knowledge: The Popcorn Book

Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on The Popcorn Book.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Main Idea: The Great Kapok Tree

Finalize your lessons on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book The Great Kapok Tree with your class.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Main Idea and Supporting Details

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Questioning, Frog and Toad Together

In this lesson, you will teach students how to use Question-Answer Relationships by reading from Frog and Toad Together,…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Introducing Questioning, The Mitten

Use a lesson that is designed to introduce primary students to the importance of asking questions before, during, and…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Story Elements: Danny and the Dinosaur

Use a lesson that introduces primary students to the elements of a story that is read aloud. Students begin by…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Making Inferences, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Use a lesson that is designed to expand primary students' skill of making inferences. The lesson uses the book, Why…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Caldecott Medal Books & Illustrators

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Primary Question-Answer Relationships

Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to primary students. Students should be able to…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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"The Grasshopper and the Owl": A Fable by Aesop

Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to draw conclusions using one of Aesop's enjoyable fables.…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Literature

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Write a Harry Potter Script

Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script for it.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Literature

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Intermediate Question-Answer Relationships

Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to intermediate students. Students should be able…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Further Expanding Questioning, Grandfather's Journey

Present this lesson plan for the strategy of asking questions before, during, and after reading using the book…

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Caldecott Medal Books & Illustrators

Award and Prize Winners

Literature

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Visualizing: Follow the Drinking Gourd

Use a lesson that is designed to establish the skill of visualizing for primary students, using the story Follow the…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Summarizing: Nate the Great

Use a lesson that is designed to establish primary students' skills in summarizing a story using the book, Nate the…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Summarizing: Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia

Use a lesson that is designed to introduce primary students to summarizing a story using a part of the book Play Ball,…

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Reading and Literature

Reading Comprehension

Baseball

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Making Inferences, Too Many Tamales

Use a lesson that is designed to help primary students establish the skill of making inferences as a reading…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Establishing Questioning, Koko's Kitten

Use a lesson that is designed to establish primary students' skills in asking questions before, during, and after they…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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