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K12 Reader

Summarize It!

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
A key reading comprehension skill is the ability to summarize. Here's a worksheet that not only explains how to summarize, but also explains why summarizing is important.
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K12 Reader

What Is a Glyph?

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
After reading a short passage about glyphs, kids must follow the provided directions to create a star glyph.
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K12 Reader

Money, Money, Everywhere!

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollars. Here's a comprehension worksheet that asks young readers to respond to a series of questions based on a passage about money.
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K12 Reader

Poetry Uses Rhyme

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
It's rhyme time! After reading a short article about poems that rhyme, kids take the time answer questions about the message of the passage.
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K12 Reader

The Rock Cycle

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This cross-curricular reading comprehension instructional activity asks kids to read a passage of the rock cycle and then to use information in the article to respond to a series of questions.
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Worksheet
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K12 Reader

Color Shows Mood

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Colors, primary colors, secondary colors, neutral colors, mixing colors, the color wheel. As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about colors and then answer a series of questions based on the article.
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K12 Reader

Cause & Effect

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Young readers are introduced to the concept of cause and effect in a short passage on a comprehension worksheet. After reading the passage, kids record their answers to a series of questions.
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K12 Reader

Making Connections to Text

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This short reading comprehension worksheet encourages readers to make self-to text, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as a way of remembering what they have read.
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K12 Reader

Have You Got the Time?

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Time and time measurement is the subject of a comprehension worksheet that asks kids to read a short passage about time, and then respond to a series of questions based on the article.
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K12 Reader

Using Land in Different Ways

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
After reading about rural, urban, and suburban land use, readers respond to a series of comprehension questions using evidence from the provided passage.
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K12 Reader

Limited Resources

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
The difference between renewable and non-renewable resources is the focus of a short reading comprehension worksheet that asks kids to respond to a series of questions based on the provided passage.
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K12 Reader

Revise Your Writing

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
The importance of revising writing is the focus of a short reading comprehension activity that asks readers to respond to a series of questions based on the article.
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K12 Reader

Justify Your Answer

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
How do you check to see if an answer to a question is correct? Just follow the four simple steps outlined in this reading comprehension worksheet.
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K12 Reader

Push and Pull

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
For this comprehension exercise, kids read a physical science article about forces that can move an object, and then answer a series of questions about the passage.
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K12 Reader

Plant Life Cycles

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Plant life cycles are the focus of a life science activity that is designed as a reading comprehension exercise. Readers respond to five questions based on the passage.
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Worksheet
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K12 Reader

How Things Move

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
As part of a comprehension exercise, kids read a physical science article about motion and then answer a series of comprehension questions based on the passage.
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K12 Reader

Using a Timeline

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Introduce you primary graders to timelines with a learning exercise that not only explains what this convenient tool is and how it can be used, but also describes how to construct one.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Frindle: A Guiding Reading Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Guide your class through a reading of the popular children's book, Frindle, with this comprehensive literature unit. Starting with a brief introduction to the guided reading process, the class goes on to read the story two chapters at a...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing

POW! A Peanuts Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
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Write Away!

Voices In the Park

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore the impact a narrator's point of view has on a story with a reading of the children's book, Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Written in four different voices, the story is told and retold from different perspectives to...
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Printables
Curated OER

The Common Core Literacy Standards - Grade 3 Posters

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Brighten your third grade classroom with this series of colorful Common Core displays. Including all of the English Language Arts standards and substandards, each with supporting illustrations and examples, this resource provides clear...
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Printables
Curriculum Corner

“I Can” Common Core! 3rd Grade Reading

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third grade readers are given clear learning goals with this Common Core checklist. By turning each reading standard into an I can statement, children can focus on mastering the required grade level skills.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge About Physical Environment: What Makes it Hard for Some People to Get Books?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
How far would your pupils go to be able to have access to books? Revisit Heather Henson and David Small's That Book Woman and challenge class members to take on the role of Cal or the Book Woman. By putting themselves in someone else's...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Off to Adventure!: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Off to Adventure! is the theme of an English language arts unit comprised of a variety of challenge activities. Scholars enhance skills and reinforce concepts by taking part in a grand book discussion, giving an oral report, and writing...