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3rd Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 2

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Reading Comprehension: Frederick Douglass

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 exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Reading Comprehension:  Pinocchio

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

Reading Fluency: Autumn

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Starfish Text Features

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

Life Cycle of a Plant

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Cause and Effect

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it&#39;s waved.

The United States Flag

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Story Map

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

Local Government

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Story Elements in Sentences

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Local Government for Kids

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

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

Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension

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

Reading Fluency: Football

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research,&nbsp;learn&nbsp;about the animal&rsquo;s habitat, and then replicate the animal&#39;s habitat using household items.

Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

What Is an Election?

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

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