Nonfiction Text Structures Bundle for 3rd Grade: PowerPoint, Worksheets, Craft

This nonfiction text structure bundle has everything you need to keep your third-grade students engaged as they learn about the FIVE informational text structures. It includes 35 nonfiction passages, and it highlights the common signal words that are used with each type of informational text structure. The activities in this bundle make learning text structures fun and easy! Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These nonfiction text structure activities can be used for test prep, review, or introduction of the skill.

It addresses the following five text structures:

→ Sequence

→ Compare and Contrast

→ Cause and Effect

→ Problem and Solution

→ Description

What's included... To gain a better idea of everything included, please check out the individual previews for each resource:

48-slide Introduction PowerPoint

• Ideal for introducing 5 text structures to students!
• With each introduction of a new text structure, students are presented with a new graphic organizer and a list of signal words.
• You have my permission to convert this to Google Slides, if you wish.
• It comes with a matching 4-page companion handout (The companion handout includes both a printable version and a Google Slides version.)

Sorting Craftivity with 15 passages

• Students read each passage and glue it to the appropriate clipboard.
• You get to choose whether to use the printable clipboard craftivity version, the Easel Activity version, or the Google "stamping" version.

Flipbook

• 26 pages
• Features signal words and graphic organizers
• Ten reading passages- 5 about baseball and 5 about mice
• Students write their own passages for each text structure.
• Whan complete, this becomes a valuable reference tool.
• You get to choose whether to use the printable version, the Easel version, or the Google Slides version.

5 Posters

• Features a graphic organizer and definition

Here's what teachers like you had to say about using these text structure activities with their students:

⭐️ Kristy R. said, "This was a fantastic resource to put all of the test structures together after slowly learning them through the year. It was a great review of everything we had learned so far. My students came away with a clear understanding of each text structure and how to recognize it in their reading."

⭐️ Melissa D. said, "The students loved these activities! They really helped them to understand different text structures!"

⭐️ Taylor B. said, "My students really enjoyed this resource! I will be using it again!"

⭐️ Carrie B. said, "My students were struggling with text structures. This resource helped my students identify them successfully."

⭐️ Stacie C. said, "This resource was aligned with the standards and very easy to use. I would definitely recommend it."

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