How Honey Bees Make Honey
3rd grade reading on how honey bees make honey, The Busy Life of a Honey Bee: main idea, two text-evidence questions, and four steps to put in order.
3rd Grade Informational Text Worksheets
RI.3 informational reading: using text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
3rd Grade ELA6 worksheets
Informational Text worksheets to download
Nonfiction Text Features Labeling
3rd grade nonfiction text features labeling: name the title, heading, bold word, photograph, caption, and sidebar on a planet book. Answer key.
Main Idea and Key Details
3rd grade main idea and key details: a passage on the wood frog that freezes solid in winter, with eight questions and a full answer key.
Cause and Effect in Nonfiction
3rd grade cause and effect in nonfiction: match canyons, seeds, and the Wright brothers to effects, then join sentences with signal words. Answer key.
Compare Two Texts on One Topic
3rd grade compare two texts: sort nine statements about a bat storybook and a bat fact book into a Venn diagram. Answer key included.
Find It in the Text Exit Ticket
3rd grade find it in the text exit ticket: a hummingbird passage with two text evidence questions and a feelings scale, three tickets per page.
Curriculum objectives covered
RI.3.1
“Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.”
RI.3.2
“Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.”
RI.3.3
“Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.”
RI.3.5
“Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.”
RI.3.8
“Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).”
RI.3.9
“Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.”
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