How this resource helps
Compare Two Tree Planting Texts teaches North Carolina Grade 3 RI.3.9 through two published nonfiction selections on tree planting and restoring greener places. This 105-page printable PDF includes the complete 412-word A Tiny Seed biography and the complete 143-word named factual section Jadav in Real Life from Jadav and the Tree-Place. The whole Jadav parent book is not included. All 12 Tiny Seed illustrations and the exact Jadav portrait are retained. Learners compare and contrast the most important points and key details using relevant information from both texts. This pair also appears in earlier-grade resources, including RI.K.9 and RI.1.9. These are fresh Grade 3 tasks emphasizing important points, evidence relevance and coherent cross-text relationships, not new readings or 60 different topics. Facts and comparison dimensions recur across this finite source pair. Record prior paired-source instruction, models, choices seen and support. No independent reading-band certification, guaranteed mastery or unseen-text transfer is claimed. Text A: A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai. Created by Nicola Rijsdijk, Maya Marshak and Karen Lilje as credited in the exact English HTML edition. Writer Nicola Rijsdijk; illustrator Maya Marshak. Karen’s role is not assigned; the current catalog credit differs. Originally published by Book Dash. Source: https://bookdash.github.io/bookdash-books/a-tiny-seed/en/ . Text B: Jadav in Real Life, complete factual section on physical page 22 of Jadav and the Tree-Place, written and illustrated by Vinayak Varma; © Storyweaver, Pratham Books, 2016. Supported by Oracle Giving Initiative; Guest Editor Bijal Vachharajani. Source: https://freekidsbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/FKB-Stories-jadav-and-the-tree-place.pdf . Both exact selections and included art are CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Source wording unchanged; layout/line breaks normalized, complete art resized proportionally without cropping, teaching labels and original instruction added. Original Saint Pierre instructional restrictions do not limit licensed source text/art rights; no added restrictions or DRM may limit those rights. No creator, publisher, funder or NC DPI endorsement implied. Treat today, now, forest size and daily activity as historical source statements, not current fact-checks. Do not infer Jadav worked alone, Wangari personally planted every tree, or that the simplified accounts describe all people in Kenya, Africa or India. NC 2017 RI.3.9 applies in 2026–27; the new standard is not silently substituted.
What’s Included
- 105-page printable PDF
- Complete A Tiny Seed biography: 412 words and 12 complete source illustrations
- Complete named Jadav in Real Life factual section: 143 words and exact portrait; NOT the whole parent book
- 30 four-option MC and 30 open-response opportunities
- Five daily targets and seven concrete teaching scripts
- Two comparison organizers and reading-strategy guidance
- All explanations, response criteria and observation rubric/record
- Source credits, CC reuse boundaries and full font notices
- 105 ordered SAMPLE store previews; not extra buyer downloads
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Grade 3
- Subject and resource type
- English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 105 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- Read both selections with appropriate support before the selected 80-minute core: 8 warm-up, 12 model, 15 guided, 13 collaborative, 17 individual, 10 intervention, 5 exit. Extend/split sessions for access. Select a suitable part of the 60-task bank; it is not a one-session assignment.
- Answer key
- All 30 MC keys include grounded rationales; all 30 open tasks include possible answers and criteria. Observe actual similarities and differences tied to the most important points and key details from both texts. A selected letter or two disconnected summaries is not the full performance. Accept defensible alternatives; no exact-quotation, fixed-detail-count, partner or revision requirement.
Standard or objective
RI.3.9