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These main idea and supporting details passages for 3rd grade help students practice reading comprehension skills with printable worksheets and graphic organizers. We developed this unit to help students become successful in finding the main idea as well as supporting details. The passages and activities have an engaging boot camp theme to get students excited to learn. The activities are scaffolded so that by the end of the unit students will feel confident in their understanding of main id

In this unit students will focus on the changes that communities go through over time by learning about changes in environment, business, education, communication, and transportation. The study of local history comes alive through the use of artifacts and documents. This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here. In this unit you will find:• Unit Overview: A unit overview with eight days of  lessons, including read-aloud and video suggestions. • Then and Now Inter

Take your students on a camping adventure while teaching essential map skills! These engaging map skills activities help students master types of maps, cardinal directions, continents/oceans and grid maps as they explore, navigate, and learn through hands-on lessons. Designed to go beyond basic worksheets, this unit makes map skills meaningful, interactive, and easy to teach. Students will develop essential map skills such as reading maps, understanding map keys, differentiating between polit

Your students will enjoy publishing their projects on these decorative pages! Choose from nine different fun styles. Each style comes with: a cover pagea page for text and a picturea page for text onlySEE WHAT OTHER EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:❤️"These papers are so helpful in getting kids excited about writing final drafts. Lots of design choices. Perfect." ❤️"Exactly what I needed...and cute!! Thanks for sharing!" ❤️"My students have loved making stories using these formats. T

Are you looking for a product to help you teach all about folktales, fables and myths? This 65 page activity pack is a great resource to use during your Traditional Literature Unit! It contains various activities that will introduce your students to folktales, fables and myths.  This resource includes: • Fable, Myth, and Folktale Posters: Colorful and bright posters with definitions for each traditional literature story type.  5 fables: The Cat and the Fox, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Ant

This math unit contains everything you need to not only make adorable gingerbread houses with your students, but also to teach area and perimeter at the same time! The weeks leading up to holiday break can be hectic, but this gingerbread area and perimeter unit will keep your students engaged and learning! This is a printable version, check out the digital version here! In this resource you will find:•Gingerbread House Blueprint- students will use graph paper to design their own gingerbread

This bundle includes a printable and digital version of our Communities Change Over Time Unit.  The local community serves as the focal point for third grade as students begin to understand how their communities have changed over time and to make comparisons with communities in other places. The study of local history comes alive through the use of artifacts and documents found in this unit! The digital version has been adapted to be interactive. It allows students to complete the activ

Prepare your third graders for standardized testing with our Race to Success Reading Test Prep! This comprehensive test prep resource includes fun race-themed mini-lessons, guided practice, and independent practice. Your students will be ready to tackle multi-part questions, main idea, compare and contrast two texts, nonfiction text features, cause and effect, text evidence, character traits, theme, and retelling. Don't miss out on this one of a kind test prep unit that will get your third

Make animal research fun with these ready-to-use informational animal articles. Each informational text is student-friendly and perfect for nonfiction reports. With 10 engaging animals, research time is easy and exciting!  These articles all follow the same format with facts on each animal's habitat, diet, appearance and behavior. We've also include a fact recording sheet that students can use to record their information. You can use this product during your informational/nonfiction readin

This bundle includes a printable and digital version of our Main Idea Boot Camp.Do your students have difficulty with the difference between topic and main idea? This resource will help stop answers like, "It's about dogs" or "It's all about cheetahs" when asked to identify the main idea. We noticed our kids answering main idea questions by stating the topic instead of the main idea. We developed this unit to help teach our students the difference between a topic and a main idea. We also wan

This character study can be used with any fiction book and it is a great resource to help your students to really explore a main character deeply by following the character's journey throughout the book. Included in the student character study packet are graphic organizers on the following topics: Getting to Know a Character- Students will fill out a web with what they find out about the character as they read.Physical Traits vs Personality Traits- A look at the difference between what we s

This Free Summer Review packet is a sample of the full Third Grade Summer Review designed to keep important third grade skills fresh in students’ minds during the long summer break. The activities are meant to be fun and interactive for students as they prepare for the beginning of fourth grade. This free review packet contains a math, literacy, and science activity.The Complete Resource Includes: Magic Squares-Fill in the missing spaces so that each row, column, and diagonal equal the mag

Help your students take an in depth look at the lives of these 10 important African American leaders by reading the biography articles and completing the poster. The articles are differentiated with three different levels for each person. The poster includes a portrait, important facts, character traits, famous words and a timeline for students to complete. These posters can be put on a bulletin board to showcase these influential people! Directions are also included to create a larg

Do your students have difficulty with the difference between topic and main idea? This free resource includes a cut and paste activity that can be used to practice sorting topic vs. main idea, as well as practice finding main idea in two short passages. These resources are from our Main Idea Boot Camp, which is full of activities to help teach students about main idea in a fun and engaging way! See the full details below. Grasping the concept of main idea can be challenging for students. Ther

Your students will have an in-depth exploration of fractions through interactive notes, fun activities, practice worksheets and more! This product is all you need to teach every Common Core fraction standard. This unit has everything you need to both introduce and explore the concept of fractions with your students!  It is broken up into 5 topics:✦ Understanding Fractions ✦ Representing Fractions ✦ Comparing Fractions ✦ Fractions Greater Than 1 ✦ Equivalent Fractions The goal of this 40 p

Teaching the properties of multiplication can be tricky and confusing. These four math games will help your students have a deeper understanding of the Zero, Identity, Commutative, Associative and Distributive Properties. They are great for math centers or small group work! This resource includes:• Zero and Identity Property Game: A game of chance where students will be kept guessing as to whether their score will grow or be reset to zero! • Commutative Property Game: Students will play a ma

If you're tired of boring map skills worksheets, this is a resource you've been looking for! In the full unit, students will practice important directional skills such as: cardinal directions, reading a map, reading a map key, drawing a map, political maps vs physical maps, reading a grid map and drawing symbols on a grid map all while having fun, staying engaged, and being creative. This is a sample of the full unit found here.This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is availabl

If you're looking for a fun and effective way to prepare your students for standardized math tests, Race to Success Math Test Prep is the perfect choice! Our program is designed to provide minilessons, guided practice, and independent work. Students will review important common core math topics like graphing and data, volume and mass, area and perimeter, rounding, time, multiplication and division, geometry, and fractions. With Race to Success Math Test Prep, your students will gain confide

Help your students take an in depth look at the lives of these 10 important Hispanic leaders by reading the biography articles and completing the included poster. It includes a portrait, important facts, character traits, famous words and a timeline for students to complete. These posters can be put on a bulletin board to showcase these influential people! Directions are also included to create a large version of the posters perfect for displaying in the hallway. Women: Laurie Hernand

Prepare your third graders for standardized testing with our Race to Success Reading Test Prep! This free sample is from our comprehensive test prep resource, which includes fun race-themed mini-lessons, guided practice, and independent practice. If you liked these free activities, please check out the entire Race to Success: Reading Test Prep.In this FREE product you will find:Race Information Main Idea Mini Lesson- Each mini lesson starts with a vocabulary “Start Your Engines” question, a