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3rd - 6th Grade Common Core Reading Passages Worksheets : Page 4

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Althea Gibson

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character&rsquo;s actions with their emotions.

Character Emotion Match Cards

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Rudyard Kipling: What's the Theme?

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device! 

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

The Raven Steals the Light

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Identifying Fact and Opinion

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one&#39;s own flaws.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess”

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template. 

Reading Response Journal

Learn about the Bill of Rights by Illustrating them!

Illustrate the Bill of Rights

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Reading for Fluency: The Jungle Book

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Point of View

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Reading Fluency: Football

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Think About Theme: The Golden Nugget

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s <em>Walk Two Moons.</em>

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Point of View and Perspective in Walk Two Moons

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Local Government

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Colonial America: Jamestown

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Reading for Fluency: Through the Looking-Glass

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Quotes as Evidence #1

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #2

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Compare the Fairy Tales

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