Reading skills and practice
Use these worksheets to practice improve reading skills and reading comprehension. Included are fiction and non-fiction stories and fables at a grade 3 level, all followed by exercises. In addition to the stories, our phonics and reading comprehension worksheets provide exercises focused on specific reading skills.
3rd grade reading comprehension worksheet
Leveled stories & reading worksheets
These leveled stories worksheets are from our series of leveled reading workbooks. Each successive level provides greater reading challenge. Reading exercises follow each story.
Children's stories
Free children's stories for third grade. Each passages is followed by questions. These fiction and non-fiction texts are 350-450 words long.
Fables
These historical passages and fables are followed by comprehension questions. Exercises involve recalling information directly from the text as well as concepts such as prediction, inference and character traits.
Phonics
Phonics worksheets focused on more complex word patterns including diphthongs, consonant digraphs, triple consonant blends, trigraphs and silent letters.
Reading comprehension exercises for grade 3
These grade 3 reading worksheets focus on specific comprehension topics such distinguishing fact from opinion and sequencing events.
