3rd grade Reading Fiction Printable Worksheets

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

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.

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.

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

Help your students practice reading fluently with this passage with exactly 100 words.

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

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

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

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Use this resource with your students to practice writing concise fiction summaries.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

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.

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

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

Use this Reader’s Theater script to engage your students as they practice reading with expression and accuracy. Your students will work on their fluency and then complete comprehension activities.

This worksheet, inspired by New Year’s resolutions, can be used any 30 days of the year! Use the worksheet, Resolve to Read, to reignite a love of reading in your learner.

This resource gives your students the chance to read two fiction texts and compare and contrast the characters, setting, and plot.

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

Help your child learn to navigate narrative poetry, then write their own poem, in this super-fun narrative poetry worksheet.

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

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.