Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

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

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

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

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

Read about six epic April Fools' Day hoaxes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

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.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Read the facts on Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the U.S., full of awesome animals and gigantic geysers.

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

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.