3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 6

Use this Reader’s Theater Script to engage your students as they practice reading fluently.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

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.

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.

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

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Ride along with the Lakota tribe with this history worksheet. These Native Americans were part of the horse culture of the Dakotas.