The Not So WImpy Teacher creates resources for busy teachers in grades 2-5 who are looking to deliver engaging and meaningful lessons without overwhelm and chaos.
Each of these 16 reading units includes a PowerPoint that makes it simple. You can download it and teach the skill today! There are also two interactive notebook activities, five centers, and three passages that can be used in reading groups or as assessments to support the new skill.
Our Third Grade Reading Units and Centers are designed to help your students master all of the third-grade standards-based reading skills in a fun and engaging way.
This Reading Comprehension Units & Centers Bundle includes a full year of reading activities. Each one of these 16 units includes two PowerPoint mini lessons, 2 interactive notebook activities, 5 centers (including one reading response activity), skill worksheets, checkpoint passages, a worksheet to practice the standard on a text of your choice, and a tri-fold activity. This bundle also includes our Back to School Reading Centers!
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 reading units include fiction and nonfiction passages and can be used as a supplement to any reading curriculum.
We’ve made it simple to incorporate these low-prep lessons into your reading instruction. Each unit focuses on just one skill or standard at a time, which helps students master skills. Student friendly directions enable students to work independently. The same centers are used in every unit making it easy to establish a routine. Interactive notebook activities and reading passages make assessment easy.
This is a money-saving bundle. It includes all 16 of the individual third grade lessons at a special discount. At $12 per unit, this bundle originally costs $192. At our special bundle pricing, you’re saving 20%!
What’s Included:
Includes a BONUS Starting Reading Centers resource complete with 8 days of lesson plans to help implement centers and set students up for success all year long!
Topics and Skills Covered:
Fiction:
Nonfiction:
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How to Use it in the Classroom:
There are so many ways to use this resource in the classroom.
The PowerPoint Mini-Lesson
Interactive Notebook Activities
This unit includes two interactive notebook activities. You might choose to do one of these as a whole group activity, or you might choose to use them in small groups or centers.
The activities have very simple cuts so that precious time is not wasted in class.
The first activity is designed to be a reference and review from the PowerPoint mini lesson. The second activity is more challenging and asks students to use the skills they have learned to demonstrate understanding.
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.
Centers:
Each of the 16 units includes FIVE centers and one student recording book. The answers to all five centers can be written into the one recording book. The recording book takes two sheets of paper.
These centers include text, matching, task cards, and color coding activities.
The final center is a reading response activity. Students will need access to some fiction picture books. The center will require that they read two different books and respond to a question relating to the unit skill. You can allow them to use read alouds, choose books from your classroom library or choose from a basket of books that you have preselected. You could even have them use a story from your basal.
The centers include student-friendly directions and were intended to be clear enough for students to complete independently while still providing adequate practice of the reading skill.
I highly recommend putting all five centers out and allowing your students to complete the center activities in any order that they wish.
There are color and blackline versions included. Labels for the centers are also included.
These centers take four sheets of paper. I do recommend cardstock and lamination for durability. Depending on the size of your groups, you might want to print more than one copy of each center.
I made the centers with the plan that students would complete them in two weeks. This will somewhat depend on how much center time you have scheduled. If students finish early, I would recommend having them choose a book and read to themselves.
Assessments/Passages
Each of the 16 units includes a mid-unit checkpoint assessment as well as an end-of-unit assessment.
Use the mid-unit checkpoint to gauge student understanding on day 5 of this unit. You can also use this data to form small groups. The end-of-unit assessment will assess students’ mastery of the standard.
Students have multiple opportunities to practice the skill using the included original passages and on a story of your choosing
Differentiation:
Frequently Asked Questions
Each unit is designed to be used over a two-week time period. However, you can adapt that to fit your schedule and needs. The PowerPoint mini lesson should take about 15-20 minutes each day and the centers and center activities should take between 45-60 minutes. You can see how I break down my ELA schedule here.
Yes! We also have reading unit bundles available for 2nd, 4th, and 5th grade.
Yes. These reading units are designed to be used with any reading curriculum. Many teachers use them as a supplement to their basal readers.
Yes. Many teachers tell us they use these Units and Centers as their whole year reading curriculum. It covers all the standards.
