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3rd Grade Common Core Reading Worksheets : Page 11

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

Feeding Our Pets

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

How the First Letter was Written

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

Make Nonsense

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Vocabulary Think & Seek

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Text Features for Comprehension

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Vocabulary Practice:  A Whale of a Problem

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

St. Patrick's Day Traditions

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

Famous Irish Americans

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Two Truths and One Lie: Mae Jemison

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Vocabulary Cards: Problem and Solution Summaries

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

Jesse Owens

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Comparing and Contrasting with Sentence Frames

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

The Butterfly That Stamped

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Glossary: Identify and Develop an Opinion

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Famous Olympians: Florence Griffith Joyner

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

1896 Olympics

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

Exploring Point of View: What Do You Think?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.

Glossary: Describe Character Actions in Order

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Make That Dialogue Pop!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

Glossary: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

The Nightingale Story

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Real or Fantasy: The Lion and the Mouse

Children learn about the history of the cycling event, one of the oldest sports in modern Olympic Games history.

Olympic Cycling

Pick one thing from each of the "My Vacation series," then draw a picture to show what is happening.

Reading the Pictures

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

Post Your Questions

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Deborah Sampson

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