Help your Grade 3 students master text features and structure the way RI.3.5 and RI.3.8 actually ask for it: use text features to find information, and describe how ideas connect through sequence, cause and effect, and comparison. This complete unit teaches students to read nonfiction like a pro.

Students learn to name and use text features like headings, captions, bold words, and a glossary to find information fast, and to spot the three ways ideas connect. The keystone Feature + Structure Statement brings using features and naming the structure with proof into one reusable sentence students can use with any nonfiction text.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

• 52-slide Google Slides / PowerPoint deck, 10 lessons, with full speaker notes
• Worksheet 1: text feature vocabulary, which feature, use the feature, quick check (2 pages)
• Worksheet 2: spot the sequence, cause/effect or compare (2 pages)
• Worksheet 3: independent feature and structure, Feature + Structure Statement, self-check (2 pages)
• Exit ticket with an original feature-page text and a four-task assessment
• 4-point assessment rubric with teaching notes and differentiation guidance

CCSS STANDARDS

RI.3.5 - Use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently
RI.3.8 - Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text

All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.