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Third Grade Reading Comprehension

Don't miss out on our third grade reading comprehension resources that focus on giving students a foundational understanding of stories, characters and text features. For example, our lesson plan about character traits helps students to identify with the different people in a story. As it turns out, learning about third grade reading comprehension can be a great creative endeavor! Our fourth grade reading comprehension resources continue the learning.

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Fiction Comprehension

Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Reading for Comprehension: Jason and the Game Show

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.

Sugar and Spice

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Dr. Seuss Characters

Test your Seuss know-how with this fun matching game: which Seuss character on the left matches the description on the right?

Put the Story Sequence in Order

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Picture Sequencing

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your student how to put plot events in order.

Reading Skills: Sentences to Stories

The reading and writing practice in this workbook will get kids thinking about all the different parts that go into a good story, like vocabulary, structure and sequencing.

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.

Folktales: The Princess Mouse

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Identifying Character Traits

What's your "it"? This lesson incorporates Tony Dungy's You Can Do It! into some hands-on activities that help students learn about different character traits.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

The Big Book of Book Reports

Make book reports a breeze with this workbook that contains plenty of pages for kids to thoroughly investigate and write about a book.

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

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

Story Sequencing: Roller Skating

Story sequencing is a fun and easy way for third graders to practice reading comprehension by putting the sentences of the story in order.

Cause and Effect

Use this short story and T-chart to teach students how to recognize cause and effect relationships in fiction.

Make a Book Square!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

How the Alphabet Was Made

Make reading time fun, with this classic short story by Rudyard Kipling. Then, complete a few comprehension activities on "How the Alphabet Was Made."

Sticky Note Project

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Embark on a worldwide animal safari with this nature-lover's workbook! Learn about animal habitats, endangered species and more, all while honing reading comprehension skills.

Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Improve reading comprehension with a lesson on cause and effect! In this lesson, students will use a T-chart to identify examples of cause and effect in and by the end, you’ll all be singing along to the cause and effect song!

The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo

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.

Pick a Peck of Poetry

What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!

The Butterfly That Stamped

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

Step Inside the Story!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as he keeps track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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