3rd Grade Reading Passages Resources : Page 2

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.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

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.

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

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

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.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

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

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

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

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

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

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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!

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

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

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

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

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

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

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.