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Comparing Two Stories
Comparing Two Stories
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Comparing Two Stories
Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.
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Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading
Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading
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Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading
Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you
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Compare and Contrast: Short Stories
Compare and Contrast: Short Stories
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Compare and Contrast: Short Stories
Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.
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Similes: Easy as Pie
Similes: Easy as Pie
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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.
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Summer Fun: Put the Story Sequence in Order
Summer Fun: Put the Story Sequence in Order
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Summer Fun: 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.
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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.
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Sort the Story Elements
Sort the Story Elements
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Sort the Story Elements
Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in two similar fictional passages.
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Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions
Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions
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Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions
Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.
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Pair the Cause and Effect
Pair the Cause and Effect
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Pair the Cause and Effect
Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.
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Make Your Own Inferences
Make Your Own Inferences
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Make Your Own Inferences
Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!
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Reading Comprehension: Pinocchio
Reading Comprehension: Pinocchio
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Reading Comprehension: Pinocchio
This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.
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Reading for Comprehension: Jason and the Game Show
Reading for Comprehension: Jason and the Game Show
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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.
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Story Sequencing: Roller Skating
Story Sequencing: Roller Skating
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Story Sequencing: Roller Skating
In this worksheet, children read a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.
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Write a Limerick
Write a Limerick
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Write a Limerick
If your child likes to rhyme, have him try this fun style by using the format of poet Edward Lear.
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Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice
Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice
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Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice
Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.
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Point of View Practice
Point of View Practice
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Point of View Practice
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.
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Reading Comprehension: The Ice Cream Disaster
Reading Comprehension: The Ice Cream Disaster
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Reading Comprehension: The Ice Cream Disaster
This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.
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Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold
Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold
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Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold
In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.
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Write a Simple Summary
Write a Simple Summary
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Write a Simple Summary
Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.
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Picture Sequencing
Picture Sequencing
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Picture Sequencing
This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.
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Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect
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Cause and Effect
Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.
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Comparing Two Fiction Texts
Comparing Two Fiction Texts
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Comparing Two Fiction Texts
Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.
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Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1
Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1
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Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1
Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.
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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.
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