Target Reading is a reading/language arts/writing bulletin board program. Target Reading is a teacher-friendly,
student-involving tool for teaching reading skills, language skills and strategies. This active involvement, in turn, provides
uency, vocabulary development, elaboration in writing, proper sentence
construction and usage, handwriting, and the development of critical thinking skills. Students work with the same high
development and recall. This holds true especially for the reluctant reader. Students also practice revising, editing,
handwriting, and elaboration skills on a daily basis. Each kit contains correlations to the Texas Essential Knowledge and
sentence elaboration prompts. Updated 2nd Edition includes additional stories, full color posters, a custom-made vinyl
pocket, and an additional Smart Choices poster! The program provides practice for all 36 weeks of the school year.
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Week 25: Passage of the Week
Why Do Volcanoes Form?
1
The earth is sphere-shaped like a ball. If the earth were
cut in half, you could see that it is made of layers. The
outer layer is called the crust. It is made of rocks, dirt,
rivers, trees and mountains. The crust is a very thin layer.
In some places on earth, the crust is only three miles deep.
2
Under the crust is the mantle. The mantle is rock that is
very hot. The rock is so hot that it is melted in some places.
The melted rock is magma. When magma comes out of a
volcano, it is called lava.
3
The crust of the earth is not solid everywhere. There
are weak places in the crust. The pressure from the gas and
steam in the mantle can push the magma out. It is like cola
in a bottle. Put your thumb over a bottle of cola and shake
it. The pressure inside will build up.
Cola will come out like steam, gas,
and lava in a volcano. When magma
comes out in these weak places in
the crust of the earth, a volcano has
formed.
Author: Fredrik
Source: Wikimedia Commons
4
The layers at the center of the earth are named the
outer core and the inner core. It gets hotter and hotter the
closer you get to the core of the earth. The outer core is
liquid rock. The inner core is solid rock. There is a lot of
pressure there. It squeezes the rocks so much that they stay
solid.
Diagram of the earth’s crust creating
pressure causing magma to flow out.
THIRD GRADE, Week 25
Week 25: Daily Question cards (8.5” x 14”) about the problem
of the week. Use one question each day. Students write the
answer on the Student Think Sheet.
crust
mantle
outer core
inner core
In paragraph 1, the word
sphere means_________.
Look at the diagram of the earth
and read paragraph 1. Tell which
is the thinnest layer of the earth.
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Week 25
Monday
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Wednesday
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(Wednesday)
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(Tuesday)
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Tuesday
In paragraph 2, what is
another word used for
magma?
Paragraph 2 is mainly about
which layer of the earth?
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(Thursday)
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Thursday
Would this article most likely
be found in a dictionary or
an encyclopedia?
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Week 25
Friday
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(Friday)
Student Think Sheets are used for recording answers to the reading passages and the spiraling daily language arts
questions (including a sentence elaboration activity for the day).
Name:_________________________________
Name:_________________________________
Answer:
Underline the subject.
The earth is made of four layers.
Fill in the blank. The_________________ crust
earth
Elaboration: Change it to a specific noun. Add an adjective.
__________________________ _____________________________
earth’s
earths
is thin.
Elaboration: Rewrite Wednesday’s sentence. Add where.
Answer:
Write a synonym for the verb break. _______________________________
Elaboration: Rewrite Monday’s adjective and specific noun as a plural. Add a specific verb.
The crust mantle outer core and inner core are
the four layers of the earth.
Add comma/commas.
Elaboration: Rewrite Thursday’s sentence. Add when.
Answer:
Correct this sentence and underline the preposition:
the sfere shape earth is maed of for layers
Fill in the blank. The
earth _________________ open, and lava flowed out.
break breaked broke
Elaboration: Rewrite Tuesday’s sentence. Add how.
THIRD GRADE, Week 25 Why Do Volcanoes Form?
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Student Think Sheet
THIRD GRADE, Week 25 Why Do Volcanoes Form?
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Student Think Sheet
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Why Do Volcanoes Form?
The earth is sphere-shaped like a ball. If the earth were
cut in half, you could see that it is made of layers. The
outer layer is called the crust. It is made of rocks, dirt,
rivers, trees and mountains. The crust is a very thin layer.
In some places on earth, the crust is only three miles deep.
2
Under the crust is the mantle. The mantle is rock that is
very hot. The rock is so hot that it is melted in some places.
The melted rock is magma. When magma comes out of a
volcano, it is called lava.
3
The layers at the center of the earth are named the
outer core and the inner core. It gets hotter and hotter the
closer you get to the core of the earth. The outer core is
liquid rock. The inner core is solid rock. There is a lot of
pressure there. It squeezes the rocks so much that they stay
solid.
4
The crust of the earth is not solid everywhere. There
are weak places in the crust. The pressure from the gas and
steam in the mantle can push the magma out. It is like cola
in a bottle. Put your thumb over a bottle of cola and shake
it. The pressure inside will build up.
Cola will come out like steam, gas,
and lava in a volcano. When magma
comes out in these weak places in
the crust of the earth, a volcano has
formed.
Author: Fredrik
Source: Wikimedia Commons
1
Diagram of the earth’s crust creating
pressure causing magma to flow out.
THIRD GRADE, Week 25
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Week 25: Daily Question cards (8.5” x 14”) about the problem of the week. Use one question each day.
Students write the answer on the Students Think Sheet.
In paragraph 1, the word
sphere means_________.
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Week 25
Monday
crust
mantle
outer core
inner core
Look at the diagram of the earth
and read paragraph 1. Tell which
is the thinnest layer of the earth.
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(Monday)
(Tuesday)
Paragraph 2 is mainly about
which layer of the earth?
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(Wednesday)
Week 25
Tuesday
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Week 25
Wednesday
In paragraph 2, what is
another word used for
magma?
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(Thursday)
Week 25
Thursday
Would this article most likely
be found in a dictionary or
an encyclopedia?
THIRD GRADE
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Week 25
Friday
(Friday)
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Why Do Volcanoes Form?
Three Kinds of Volcanoes
The earth is sphere-shaped like a ball. If the earth were
cut in half, you could see that it is made of layers. The
outer layer is called the crust. It is made of rocks, dirt,
rivers, trees and mountains. The crust is a very thin layer.
In some places on earth, the crust is only three miles deep.
2
Under the crust is the mantle. The mantle is rock that is
very hot. The rock is so hot that it is melted in some places.
The melted rock is magma. When magma comes out of a
volcano, it is called lava.
3
The layers at the center of the earth are named the
outer core and the inner core. It gets hotter and hotter the
closer you get to the core of the earth. The outer core is
liquid rock. The inner core is solid rock. There is a lot of
pressure there. It squeezes the rocks so much that they stay
solid.
4
The crust of the earth is not solid everywhere. There
are weak places in the crust. The pressure from the gas and
steam in the mantle can push the magma out. It is like cola
in a bottle. Put your thumb over a bottle of cola and shake
it. The pressure inside will build up.
Cola will come out like steam, gas,
and lava in a volcano. When magma
comes out in these weak places in
the crust of the earth, a volcano has
formed.
Not all volcanoes are made the same way. The islands
of Hawaii were made from volcanoes. There were weak
spots in the crust of the earth. They were under the water.
Hot lava pushed out into the water. The water cooled the
lava, and it turned to rock. A long time passed. The lava
made mountains of rock under the water. The top of the
mountains stuck out of the water. The tops sticking out of
the water made the islands of Hawaii. These mountains
from under the water were made from volcanoes.
2
In Mexico, a volcano formed in a flat field of corn. The
ground got hot. Steam and lava came out of a crack in the
ground. Soon the lava and ash that came out of the crack
made a hill. The ash, rocks, and lava piled up higher. The
hill became a mountain. This volcano is called Mount
Paricutin.
3
A volcano in the state of Washington is called Mount
St. Helens. It was a pretty mountain. Animals lived on
it. There were flowers and tall trees. People hiked and
camped on it. It was so tall that it had snow near the top.
The mountain had been there a long time. It was really
a volcano. It was made from rocks, lava, and ash from
long ago. Some people forgot it was a volcano. In 1980,
it exploded again. It destroyed many animals, trees, and
property. Many people were surprised. They didn’t know
it would explode.
Author: Fredrik
Diagram of the earth’s crust creating
pressure causing magma to flow out.
THIRD GRADE, Week 25
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Week 25
(Read to learn about three different kinds of volcanoes.)
1
Source: Wikimedia Commons
1
THIRD GRADE, Week 26
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1
“Lupe! Pablo!” I heard my mother call as the stars were
beginning to pop out in the sky. My little brother and I like
summer. We always want to play one more game, but it
was getting dark. It was time to go home.
2
“Bye, Rosa. I’ll see you tomorrow.” We had played
together all day. We played with our brothers after supper,
but soon they left to build a fort.
3
“Where is Pablo?” asked my mother as I opened the
door.
4
“I don’t know. He was building a fort with Joe,” I
said. My mother looked worried. She called Joe and the
other children on our block, but no one knew where to find
Pablo.
5
Soon our neighbors came to help us look for Pablo.
They went to every house. “Do you know where Pablo is?”
they asked. They used flashlights to shine in every dark
corner. They looked under cars, in the alley, in boxes, and
everywhere, but they couldn’t find him.
6
It was very dark outside when my mother decided to
call the police. After she went into the house to call the
police, she began to smile. There on the floor
behind a chair was Pablo. He was asleep
under the tent he had made with an old
blanket. He wasn’t lost after all.
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Week 26
An Interesting Dinosaur
Lost and Found
(Read to learn where Pablo went.)
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Week 27
1
Long ago dinosaurs lived on earth. No one has ever
seen a live one. There were no people on earth at that time.
Then how do we know so much about them? We have been
able to learn about them by looking at their fossils. We can
tell how big or small they were. We know what they ate.
We know what they looked like. We know many things
about dinosaurs because we study their fossils.
2
There were many dinosaurs. Some could fly. Some
even lived in the ocean. Some of them ate plants. Other
dinosaurs ate meat. Some were as tall as a building and as
long as two school buses. Others were as small as a cat.
There were many kinds of dinosaurs.
3
The compsognathus was one of the smallest known
dinosaurs. It lived during the Jurassic period. It was only
two feet long and twelve inches high. It was about the size
of a chicken. It walked on two long thin back legs. It had
short arms. There were two clawed fingers on each hand.
His small, pointed head was about three inches long. His
tail was longer than his head, neck, and body. It helped him
keep his balance as he chased small lizards and insects to
eat. He could move very fast. It is fun to learn about even
the smallest dinosaurs.
THIRD GRADE, Week 28
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Week 28
Name:_________________________________
Answer:
Underline the subject.
The earth is made of four layers.
Elaboration: Change it to a specific noun. Add an adjective.
__________________________ _____________________________
Answer:
Write a synonym for the verb break. _______________________________
Elaboration: Rewrite Monday’s adjective and specific noun as a plural. Add a specific verb.
Answer:
Fill in the blank. The
earth _________________ open, and lava flowed out.
break breaked broke
Elaboration: Rewrite Tuesday’s sentence. Add how.
THIRD GRADE, Week 25 Why Do Volcanoes Form?
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Student Think Sheet
Name:_________________________________
Answer:
Fill in the blank. The_________________ crust
earth
earth’s
earths
is thin.
Elaboration: Rewrite Wednesday’s sentence. Add where.
Answer:
The crust mantle outer core and inner core are
the four layers of the earth.
Add comma/commas.
Elaboration: Rewrite Thursday’s sentence. Add when.
Correct this sentence and underline the preposition:
the sfere shape earth is maed of for layers
THIRD GRADE, Week 25 Why Do Volcanoes Form?
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textsastheybecomeself-directed,criticalreaders.Thestudentisexpectedto:
(A)establishpurposesforreadingselectedtextsbasedupondesiredoutcometoenhancecomprehension;
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