3rd Grade Reading Worksheets : Page 3

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Reading Fluently.

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.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

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

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

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

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.

Sail back in time to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, with this fun, fact-filled worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

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

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

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

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.