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.

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

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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

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

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

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.

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

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

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

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

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