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Reading Passages, Questions & Answers - Third Grade
Below you’ll find 3rd grade reading comprehension passages along with questions and answers and vocabulary activities. These printable 3rd grade reading activities include short story excerpts, passages from popular books as well as high-interest information topics.
Louisa May Alcott wrote Jack and Jill: A Village Story in 1880. It’s the story of Jack and his good friend Janey. Everyone calls Janey “Jill” because of the nursery rhyme “Jack and Jill.” In this passage from the start of the story, Jack and Jill are sledding down hills…
In Little Women, Jo March has gone to New York to be a governess for a family who runs a boarding house. There she meets one of the residents, Professor Bhaer. She becomes friends with him, and she finds that all the people in the house are very fond of…
Flossie couldn’t stand still. She wiggled her wings and her pointed ears with excitement and tried to concentrate on what she was being told. She was a TFT – a Tooth Fairy in Training – and today was her final test. The TFT commander was speaking to a small group…
Little Women is about the four March sisters growing up in the 1800s. In this passage, Jo, or Josephine, March goes to New York to be a governess for Mrs. Kirke, a friend of her mother’s. She writes a letter to her mother and sister about the journey to her…
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into…
“Johnny,” yelled Mr. Crawford, “load those apples in the cart.” Johnny wiped the sweat from the back of his neck. “Yes, sir.” He picked up a green one and took a bite. “Yuck. I keep forgetting these aren’t eating apples, they’re for making apple cider.” Mr. Crawford laughed. After work,…
Spiff was a cheerful elf who lived at the North Pole. He worked hard all year to make toys. Spiff’s job was in the paint department. Normally, he loved his work because he got to choose the colors for all the board games and the expressions to paint on the…
On May, 1, 1815, English sculptor Anne Seymour Damer stood in a room at the Palais Elysée in Paris. His Imperial Majesty Napoleon I had commanded her presence. Her appointment was at 10 a.m. She had been waiting two hours. Finally, a servant approached her. “Madam, please follow me.” The…
The scarecrow stood alone in the field. He was a solitary figure, a bit ragged around the edges, arms extended to embrace the wide horizon. When the farmer first carried him out to this distant spot and set him up on a post to keep the crows away from his…
His eyes were lit for the first time, and Jack looked all around with wonder. He felt warm and happy, as all pumpkins do when they are turned into Halloween Jack-o’-lanterns. With a candle glowing inside, his toothy grin beamed out into the dark night surrounding him. It was that…
