Reading: Literature : Third Grade English Language Arts Worksheets
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Read the poem "The Grasshopper and the Ant" and then use the text of the poem to answer the questions.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Read and Create Inferences
Read the article about LED lights. Then, read the answers given. Practice framing questions for each answer provided in this worksheet.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Read and Create Inferences
Answer the multiple choice questions. Then write the number of the paragraph in the box next to the question that supports your answer.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Read and Create Inferences
A town mouse and a country mouse invite each other to visit their places. Read the events and the causes. Then, fill in the missing cause or effect in the table.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Read and Create Inferences
Read the fairy tale, "The Fish and the Ring", and answer the questions in this worksheet. This is a very interesting story to read.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Fairy tales, Myths, Folktales, Legends, and Fables
Read the Indian folk tale and answer the related true or false questions. Write the line from the tale that supports your answer.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Fairy tales, Myths, Folktales, Legends, and Fables
Read the fable about a lion and a mouse. Provide some descriptive answers to the questions asked in this worksheet.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Fairy tales, Myths, Folktales, Legends, and Fables
Read the fable about the wolf and the lamb and answer the questions.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Fairy tales, Myths, Folktales, Legends, and Fables
Based on the passages, choose a word from the word bank that best describes the character trait of each of Eli's friends.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Character Portrayal
Read the short story and try to understand the feelings of the characters. Match their actions on the left with the appropriate word on the right that describes it.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Character Portrayal
How do you stand up to bullies? Read the story about two boys. Think about the characters of the proud boy and the tailor's son in the story. Then answer the questions.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Character Portrayal
The diagram on the worksheet shows different feelings Benjamin Franklin has, and character traits that he displays in the story. Write a few lines from the story that displays that particular feeling or character trait.
Category: Reading: Literature Main Ideas and Supporting Details Character Portrayal
Determine the meaning of each underlined idiom. Choose the best meaning.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Write the idiom. Illustrate the literal meaning of the idiom, then explain the nonliteral meaning of the idiom.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Add a simile to the each sentence to make it more descriptive and clear.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Rewrite each sentence without the metaphor to show what you think it actually means.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Determine whether each sentence below is a simile or a metaphor. Write S for simile or M for metaphor. Then, underline the words that are being compared.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Read each sentence carefully. Circle the idea, object, or animal being personiï¬ed. Underline the words that show personiï¬cation.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Read each sentence carefully. Write “hyperbole” in the blank, if the sentence contains a hyperbole. Write “none” in the blank, if it does not have one.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
Read each sentence carefully. Add a hyperbole to make each sentence interesting and exaggerated.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language
This is the story about two great painters that could paint pictures so life-like that they were mistaken for the real things which they represented.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Infer from Parts of A Story
Read the story about King Charles the Twelfth, of Sweden, who lived two hundred years ago, and was famous for his courage in defending his country.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Infer from Parts of A Story
Read the poem about the little squirrel and answer the related questions.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Infer from Parts of A Story
Read the poem about the cat and the robin, then answer the related questions.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Infer from Parts of A Story
Read the poem, then determine the point of view of the narrator about the setting of the poem.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Point of View of Narrators and Characters
Read the short story about Andrew, then determine his point of view about the extreme sports.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Point of View of Narrators and Characters
Read the short story to determine the author’s and his classmates’ point of view about the homework.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Point of View of Narrators and Characters
Which is your favorite season? Is your point of view more like the author of the story or his younger brother? Read the story to find it out.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Point of View of Narrators and Characters
The author is feeling really nervous for her first solo dance performance.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Point of View of Narrators and Characters
Erika and her family always go to camping every summer.
Category: Reading: Literature Craft and Structure Point of View of Narrators and Characters
Compare and Contrast the similarities and the differences in the stories you've read.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Compare and Contrast: Themes, Settings, and Plots
Use the outline to compare and contrast the characters, plot, and setting of the stories.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Compare and Contrast: Themes, Settings, and Plots
Use venn diagram to compare and Contrast the stories.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Compare and Contrast: Themes, Settings, and Plots
Read two short stories about the characters behaving foolish and paying a high price for doing so.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Compare and Contrast: Themes, Settings, and Plots
The greed of the main characters left them empty handed in the end.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Compare and Contrast: Themes, Settings, and Plots
Compare and contrast the characters, theme, and events of the two short stories.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Compare and Contrast: Themes, Settings, and Plots
All Danny Meadow Mouse could think about was his short tail that he was ashamed of.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Read Stories, Dramas, and Poetry
Playing with your pup is always so much fun!
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Read Stories, Dramas, and Poetry
Can the feisty feline ever be the protector of a pet canary, instead of eating it up?
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Read Stories, Dramas, and Poetry
Thank you cows! Don't we all know how good the milk tastes?
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Read Stories, Dramas, and Poetry
The disobedient and thoughtless rooster is always doing something foolish.
Category: Reading: Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Read Stories, Dramas, and Poetry
