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Similes: Easy as Pie
Similes: Easy as Pie
Worksheet
Similes: Easy as Pie
If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect
Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect
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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.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
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Idioms: A Figure of Speech
What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
Similes: Clear as Crystal
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Pick a Peck of Poetry
Pick a Peck of Poetry
Workbook
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!
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Keeping Up with Context Clues
Keeping Up with Context Clues
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Keeping Up with Context Clues
With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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My Vacation
My Vacation
Workbook
My Vacation
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.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
My Vacation (Part One)
My Vacation (Part One)
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My Vacation (Part One)
In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Character Changes Order
Character Changes Order
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Character Changes Order
Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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The Nightingale Comprehension
The Nightingale Comprehension
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The Nightingale Comprehension
After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Practice Your Reading Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
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Practice Your Reading Comprehension
After reading the "My Vacation" series, use this worksheet to discover what you learned.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Practice Understanding What You Read
Practice Understanding What You Read
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Practice Understanding What You Read
This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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The Elephant's Child
The Elephant's Child
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The Elephant's Child
Help your third grader with reading comprehension in this fun activity page on Rudyard Kipling's charming story, "The Elephant's Child."
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Animal Sounds Around the World
Animal Sounds Around the World
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Animal Sounds Around the World
Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Summary with Time Order Words
Summary with Time Order Words
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Summary with Time Order Words
Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
Worksheet
Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension
The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension
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The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo Comprehension
Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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My Vacation (Part Three)
My Vacation (Part Three)
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My Vacation (Part Three)
In the third installment of this narrative series, the family finally reaches their destination.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Vocabulary Practice: Fiction Genre
Vocabulary Practice: Fiction Genre
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Vocabulary Practice: Fiction Genre
Use this resource to review important vocabulary terms in the genre of fiction.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Graphic Organizer: Vocabulary Victories!
Graphic Organizer: Vocabulary Victories!
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Graphic Organizer: Vocabulary Victories!
This playful template includes space to write the definition of a vocabulary word, along with synonyms, antonyms, and an illustration.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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The Vocabulary Mystery
The Vocabulary Mystery
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The Vocabulary Mystery
Children will read a relatable story about a disappearing word, then practice sleuthing out the meanings of a few words on their own.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Time Order Transitions
Time Order Transitions
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Time Order Transitions
Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.
3rd grade
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