Search Printable 3rd Grade Language Arts Reading Worksheets

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

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

In this worksheet, second and third graders will practice two important reading fluency strategies: rereading and rereading aloud.

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

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!

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

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.