Reading Worksheets for 3rd Grade Students

EnglishForEveryone.org's Reading Comprehension Worksheets

EnglishForEveryone.org has skill building worksheets for beginning to advanced level readers. The worksheets cover a wide variety of subjects so that kids stay motivated to read and improve.

Additionally, questions are selected to utilize higher order thinking skills, such as deductive reasoning, inference and tonal awareness. Each worksheet lists the number of words and questions in the passage. Answer keys are also provided.

In 'The Bus Driver', kids read a short passage and answer a variety of multiple-choice questions. At the end, they write a short opinion response. Another worksheet, 'A Day Like No Other', requires inference and deductive reasoning responses to its questions.

Additional Reading Worksheets from Tlsbooks.com

Tlsbooks.com has a variety of 3rd grade reading worksheets available to download. The worksheets are intended to introduce new concepts while reinforcing previously learned skills. Answer keys are provided for all worksheets.

An activity called 'Syllable Sleuth' asks kids to divide a group of words into syllables. Another activity has kids read about the Sonoran Desert and complete a picture showing what they learned.

Teach-nology's Reading Resources

Teach-nology offers printable reading worksheets designed to enhance a variety of skills, like identifying the author's purpose. Read the descriptions of each worksheet to find what skill it focuses on. The worksheets that relate to pieces of literature, like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, include book reviews, crossword puzzles, reading comprehension tests and word searches. Author's purpose worksheets ask kids to read a paragraph and determine if the author's intent was to persuade, inform or entertain. There are four versions of these worksheets ranging from basic to intermediate.