Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple "teach, practice, and assess" approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills. Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts • Main Idea and Details • Text Features and Visual Information • Description • Cause and Effect • Compare and Contrast • Sequence • Problem and Solution • Predict • Vocabulary • Summarize • Fact and Opinion • Make Inferences • Author's Purpose Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts • Character • Setting • Plot • Theme • Point of View • Predict • Vocabulary • Visual Information • Summarize • Make Inferences • Cause and Effect • Compare and Contrast • Dialogue • Simile and Metaphor Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction, realistic fiction, fables, and fairy tales. Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs. Our Mission Evan-Moor’s mission is clear and unwavering: to  help children learn. We do this by creating meaningful learning experiences that develop and nurture students’ hearts and minds, inspire a love of learning, and build confidence in learning academic skills across the curriculum, as well as life skills. As a team of educators, we are also dedicated to providing teachers and parents with innovative supplemental resources that are easy to use and accessible in a variety of formats, including print books, digital e-books, and an affordable online subscription, TeacherFileBox. We are proud to partner with educators and parents and to be a part of children’s learning whether it’s in the classroom or a homeschool, at the kitchen table, or exploring outdoors.  Evan-Moor is grateful to contribute to nurturing the hearts and minds of children around the world. How does Evan-Moor support Teachers and Parents? As a company founded by teachers, we feel honored to support teachers in the classroom and parents at home with affordable resources that engage children in learning skills and concepts across the curriculum. Our supplemental learning resources help students learn and practice core curriculum skills, as well as science, social studies, critical thinking, STEAM, STEM, social and emotional learning, handwriting, and art. Our educational materials are aligned with current standards and best educational practices—and with student interests and motivations. We pride ourselves in our ability to create products that not only build and reinforce basic and complex skills, but that also develop a curiosity about the subjects in which those skills are taught. Evan-Moor’s digital subscription service unlocks our vast library of resources to help teachers and homeschool parents meet the learning needs and interests of their students or children with exclusive access to thousands of lessons across the curriculum for grades PreK–6. Additionally, we develop colorful activity books, classroom teaching resources, and student workbooks to keep children engaged in learning. Award-Winning Resources Evan-Moor resources have received over 50 awards from prestigious teaching and parent organizations since 2000. Our most recent awards include Mom’s Choice Award, Creative Child Magazine Awards, National Parenting Product Awards, Parents’ Picks Awards, and the Homeschool Reader Award.   Our History and Legacy Founded in 1979 by teaching colleagues Joy Evans and Jo Ellen Moore to inspire their students to learn basic skills, Evan-Moor has continued the tradition of supporting teachers with innovative lessons that engage children in learning. Today, as in the early days, Evan-Moor continues to develop resources with a clear, unwavering focus on the goal of helping children learn. We provide learning experiences that engage, delight, and inspire students on their academic journeys, while providing basic skills and life skills to help them thrive. We are proud to be a part of classrooms, homeschools, and homes around the world,  helping children learn.