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

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

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

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.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in two similar fictional passages.

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.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

With these short fiction passages, your students will identify the problems and solutions.

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

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

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.

Use this resource to record cause and effect relationships found in a nonfiction text.

In this worksheet, children read a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

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

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

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.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

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

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

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.

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!

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.

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