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3rd Grade Fiction Common Core Comprehension Questions Worksheets : Page 3

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Reading Comprehension: The Runaway Ball

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

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Understanding Personification

After reading the "My Vacation" series, use this worksheet to discover what you learned.

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Character Emotion Descriptions

This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.

Practice Understanding What You Read

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Reading Strategies: Visualizing

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Compare Similar Stories

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

Compare Story Elements

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Retelling Folktales and Fables

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

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

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Ivan’s Homes

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

My Vacation (Part One)

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

A Tale of Two Texts

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

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Make a Prediction Sandwich

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

After reading Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Fact vs. Fiction

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

Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Evaluate a Text: What Do You Think?

Making Predictions: The Lion and the Mouse

In the second part of this story, a child observes the lead-up to a camping trip.

My Vacation (Part Two)

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Reading Comprehension: How the Alphabet Was Made

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

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

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

Post Your Questions

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

Two Truths and One Lie: Mae Jemison

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

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