Practice makes perfect! Prepare students for Next Generation Assessments with these rigorous practice exercises. This invaluable resource includes 10 texts, literature passages, poems and reader's theater scripts. Each text includes questions for key ideas and details, craft and structure, integration of knowledge and ideas, and constructed response questions based on technology-enhanced questions. These high-interest, informational texts will engage third grade students and make preparing for assessments enjoyable. Students will become comfortable taking assessments and will develop their higher-order thinking skills through daily practice and by answering higher-level questions and multi-step problems.

Jennifer Prior, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor for Early Childhood and Literacy at Northern Arizona University. Her focus is using environmental print as an instructional literacy tool, family involvement in education, and effective teaching practices.