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These worksheets are designed for the 3rd grade Benchmark unit "Animal Adaptations" They ask simple comprehension questions as well as require students to utilize text features.

The rough draft paper is shaded-every other line to remind students to skip lines. This allows sufficient space for editing.

Color coded highlighter directions so that students can read the text three times each time with a new purpose. i.e: highlight words you don't know in yellow. Includes character analysis thinking map. Will work with any literary text.

After teaching students the difference between a thin (yes, no) question and a thick question (answered by deep thinking), I challenge my students to come up with both thick and thin questions nightly as part of their reading homework in response to their reading.

This resource provides students with a variety of standards based activities to complete for homework. Students love that they are able to choose, and don't have to do the same activity every night.

Homework: Students read a fiction text for 15 minutes nightly. They then identify the parts of the text.

This nightly reading log requires students to read 15 minutes nightly and then analyze a non-literal phrase. Texts with non-literal phrases are needed for this assignment.

After learning about narratives, I have students write short narratives nightly based on the reading they did.

This product requires students to write 3 key details from their nightly reading and then identify the main idea of the selection that they read.

This Graphic organizer requires students to identify the main idea of two separate texts or chapters with supporting details and then compare/contrast them.

After students have been taught to successfully write a hamburger opinion paragraph, they can choose one of these three juicy opinion topics to show you their skills!

After nightly reading, students will write the "facts" regarding their reading ie: title and minutes read. They will then state a brief opinion of the selection they read.

This product requires students to compare and contrast two characters every night after reading. They can use any literary text with two or more characters.

This sheet requires students to analyze a character with their reading nightly for homework. It can be use with any literary text.

Working on text connections in class? Give students practice making text connections with texts they read for homework. There is an example listed. This product is also bilingual! English and Spanish!

These two high-interest topics have inspired my students to show off their opinion writing skills.

I give students copies of "Teach us Amelia Bedelia" and challenge them to find the non-literal language in the text and write what the text really means.

After I teach context clues, I have students read a text with at least a few words they aren't familiar with. They then jot the unknown words down and use context clues to determine meaning.

After learning about Cesar Chavez, students can use this graphic organizer to list traits with rationale to describe him.

This template can be used by students to write any informative report.