Reading Interactive Notebooks for Third Grade

Our Third Grade Reading Interactive Notebook activities are designed to help your students master all of the Third grade standards-based reading skills in a fun and engaging way. This resource includes 32 interactive notebooks that cover 16 reading standards. 

Your students will get essential practice of important reading comprehension skills like main idea, central message, point of view, and cause and effect through focused practice on one skill at a time. These notebook activities include fiction and nonfiction standards and can be used as a supplement to your existing reading curriculum. 

For each standard, I have included two notebook activities. The first activity makes sure students understand the concept being taught. The second activity then requires students to apply the skill in a deeper way. For example, the first Compare & Contrast notebook activity defines these terms and provides pairs of objects to compare. The second notebook activity provides two passages on different subjects, and the students must read the passages and decide how the subjects of the passages are alike and different. This resource contains 14 original passages to which students will apply the skills being practiced.

What’s Included:

• Teacher Directions w/clickable table of contents
• Two interactive notebooks for each topic listed below

Topics and Skills Covered:

• Character Traits- Fiction
• Asking & Answering Questions- Fiction
• Context Clues- Fiction
• Point of View- Fiction
• Main Idea & Details- Nonfiction
• Context Clues- Nonfiction
• Point of View- Nonfiction
• Text Features- Nonfiction
• Central Message- Fiction
• Cause & Effect- Fiction
• Compare & Contrast- Fiction
• Figurative Language and Poetry- Fiction
• Cause & Effect- Nonfiction
• Sequence- Nonfiction
• Asking & Answering Questions- Nonfiction
• Compare & Contrast- Nonfiction

❤️❤️ Why You’ll Love it: ❤️❤️

• Easy to prep and easy to use materials save valuable time
• Interactive lessons are fun and engaging and hold students’ interest
• Each activity focuses on one standard-based reading skill at a time
• Provides excellent practice and preparation for standardized tests
• For most topics, students will practice the skill on original passages provided in this resource, so there’s no need to go seek out your own text!

How to Use it in the Classroom:

• These activities have very simple cuts so precious class time is not wasted!
• You could use these as a whole-group activity or in small groups at the teacher table or centers.
• The first activity is designed to reference and review the skill that you have already taught in class. The second activity is more challenging and asks students to demonstrate their new skills.
• Students will need a notebook (spiral or composition), scissors, and glue.

BONUS: If you also use my grammar units, one notebook will easily fit all of the grammar and reading notebook activities. I included a cover and dividers for this.

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