Grade 3 reading comprehension exercises
We have created a whole new section that helps students practice reading comprehension concepts and skills, such as main idea and supporting details, cause and effect, making predictions, fact and opinion, and the main elements of a story.
Main idea and supporting details
Students read a text and are asked to identify the main idea in these worksheets.
Practice identifying the five w’s
These worksheets have students identify the who, what, when, where and why of stories.
Compare and contrast worksheets
From two texts, students are asked to identify how they are alike and how they differ.
Practice sequencing
Students analyze passages for sequencing words in these worksheets.
Character traits exercises
Students identify character traits of the main character in stories.
Settings worksheets
Next, students work on clues as to where and when in stories.
Practice the plot of a story
These worksheets cover the five stages of a plot. Students are asked to identify those stages.
Making inferences worksheets
Students use clues from the text to infer what happened in a story.
Cause and effect practice
Next, students work on the cause and effect of stories.
Fact or opinion worksheets
Students read short passages and determine if they are facts or opinions.
Author’s purpose exercises
In these exercises, students determine if the author wanted to persuade, inform or entertain the reader.
Prediction worksheets
Prediction is an important skill to learn. These worksheets ask students to predict what happens next in stories, and to justify their answers with evidence from the text.
Context clues practice
Students use context clues from sentences to work out the meaning of unknown words.
