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3rd and 4th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 6

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Character Changes

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Compare Story Elements

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

What is Biography?

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Setting

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Reading Genre Challenge

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

Florence Nightingale Biography

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Literature Response Prompts

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Comparing Characters

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Signal the Story Structure

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

I Can Make Inferences: Concept Web

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Develop Character and Setting

Thinking Routine: Parts, Purposes, and Complexities

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Making Connections: Thinking Stems

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Making Predictions: Before, During, After!

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Characters and Settings in Noun Phrases

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Chapter Map

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Point of View: An Interesting Discovery

Ask students questions about  "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Narrative Poem: Casey at the Bat

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

The Cat That Walked by Himself

In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.

My Vacation (Part One)

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Context Clue Matching

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Welcome to the Tundra

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

The Beginnning of the Armadillos

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Character Emotion Descriptions

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Find the Central Message: Literary Response

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Paraphrasing a Passage

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