Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your third-grade students!

Choose from nine units that span fiction genres or use them all!

• Fable
• Mystery
• Folk tale
• Classic fiction
• Fairy tale
• Tall tale
• Poetry and song
• Historical fiction
• Greek legend

Each unit includes:

• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
• Story dictionary with topic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
• Close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
• Writing prompt activity

Additional teacher resources:

• Comprehensive vocabulary definitions
• "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
• Literary genres chart
• Literary elements and story structure chart
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure

The illustrated reading selections in the grade 3 book are:

• Aesop's Fable: "Country Mouse and City Mouse," Level L
• Mystery: "How Do You Spell Beware?" Level M
• Folk Tale: "The Mitten," Level M
• Classic Fiction: "Rebecca's School Day," Level N
• Fairy Tale: "Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon," Level N
• Tall Tale: "Davy Crockett Escapes a Tornado," Level O
• Poetry and Song: "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving," Level O
• Historical Fiction: "Lunch with Diego," Level P
• Greek Legend: "Damon and Pythias," Level P