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3rd Grade Common Core Reading Worksheets : Page 2

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Point of View Practice

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Reading Comprehension:  Pinocchio

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

The United States Flag

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

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

Story Map

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

Write a Simple Summary

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

Starfish Text Features

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

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

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

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

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

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

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

Story Elements in Sentences

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

Reading Comprehension: Frederick Douglass

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

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

Cause and Effect

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

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

Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1

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

Reading Fluency: Football

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

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

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 worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

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

Local Government

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

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Day of the Dead

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Search for Nonfiction Text Features

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

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

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

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