3rd Grade Reading Resources : Page 3

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

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

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

Add some fun to the old-fashioned placeholder with this bookmark! Your child answers a few questions and makes the bookmark, and the experience, all her own!

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

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.

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

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 the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. the Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th president.

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

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

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

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

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.