Search Printable 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Strategy Worksheets

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

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.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!