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3rd Grade Reading Passages Worksheets : Page 8

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

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

Introducing Mae Jemison, the Star

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

Lincoln Memorial Facts

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

St. Patrick's Day Traditions

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Circle of Viewpoints

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.

Reader's Theater: Casey at the Bat

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Comparing and Contrasting: Feeding our Pets

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Compare Story Elements

Learners can gather a lot of information about veterans and their former jobs by interviewing them on Veterans Day. Use the worksheet Interview a Veteran to have students ask veterans questions and write down their answers.

Interview a Veteran

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Gaining Information from the Text and its Features

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Learning About Amelia Boynton Robinson

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

Reader’s Theater: Summertime Blues

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Asking Questions: Before, During, and After

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Glossary: Fact or Opinion

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Fiction Travel Brochure

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Historical Heroes: Booker T. Washington

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

Donald Trump: Finding the Facts

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

The Author’s Viewpoint vs. My Viewpoint

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

The Siege of Yorktown

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

The Korrigan

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Illustration Explanation

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Match Mixed Predictions

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

How the Whale Got His Throat: Reading Comprehension

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

What’s in a Play?

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

The Topic of Details

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Conflict

Designed to give students practice on identifying script components, this worksheet is a great way to help students practice their writing fluency.

Acting 101: Learning the Parts of a Script

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

Hot or Cold? How Temperatures Affect Plants

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

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