Theme 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages Graphic Organizers Poster Packet
Introduce THEME to your 3rd graders to foster critical thinking, deepen reading comprehension, and help children make connections between literature and their own lives. Packet includes: reading comprehension passages & questions, graphic organizers, activities , exit slips, standards addressed and book recommendations,. All activities are available in a print and digital format.
This unit is also part of the Reading Mini Units Bundle for 3rd Grade
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What is included?
1. Google Slides/PowerPoint: This is an interactive teaching presentation to teach theme. The Google Slides and PowerPoints help you teach or review the skill. There are three versions included in both PowerPoint & Google Slides. The slide presentation is organized so that you can use the I Do, We Do, You Do method:
- Model the Skill
- Let's Try It! (Active Engagement)
- Independent Practice (Exit Slip)
Version 1: (Teaching Slides) These slides include transitions so that you can discuss the answers before they appear. The answers are also in the notes section of the slideshow.
Version 2: (Student Slides) These slides can be used if you are teaching virtually or if you want to use this as a review and have students complete on their own.
Version 3: (Answer Key) This slide has all the answers.
2. 3rd Grade Theme Standards
3. Tips for choosing books to teach theme
4. Book Recommendations: chapter books & picture books
5. Graphic Organizers: common themes, multiple themes, themes across stories, theme: finding evidence, step-by-step theme, thinking about theme, revealing the theme
6. Theme Posters: The following theme posters are included: theme, theme topics vs. statements, revealing the theme, common themes. The posters come in different colors: red, teal, black and white)
7. Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions: total of 5 with a focus on theme
8. Exit Slips: There are 5 exit slips with a variety of questioning about theme in multiple choice or short response format. They print 2 per page and are also available in Google Forms.
9. Reading Activities:
- Theme: true or false?
- Could it be a theme?
- Theme or Main Idea?
- Theme: The Case of the Missing Skateboard
- Theme: The Adventures of Carl Caterpillar
- Writing about Theme
- Mr. Thompson’s Haunted House (step-by-step theme)
- Theme Practice
- Theme Match
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