Reading Informational Texts Essential Activities for Grade 3

When the first Pilgrims arrived in America in 1620, they met the original inhibiters of the land, the Native Americans. The two built a compact and resolved to live in harmony. The Pilgrims learnt a lot of things from the Native Americans that helped them survive on the strange land. Read this short text about the First Thanksgiving to your kids. Then, read the questions below the text and help them check the correct answers.

Photographs and captions help the reader build understanding about the text they are reading. This is why a lot of children books come with pictures and captions. This way, your kids can easily follow what is happening in the story. A caption tells the readers what the picture is. Look at the pictures in the worksheet with your kids, and help them check off the correct caption to match the image.

Mohandas Gandhi is known worldwide for his advocacy and activism in the pursuit of rights for all people. This worksheet will teach your children about the incredible human Gandhi was, as well as how he was honored for his humanitarian works. Then they'll get to read the sentences given and identify each statement as true or false using the available answer boxes. A great way to teach children about an incredible man and reference the history of India as well.

Learning about animals is always fun, but the sheer number of new vocabulary words can make science confusing for little learners! This worksheet makes it easier and more exciting while teaching children about golden eagles. This regal bird spreads his wings in an adorable image turned diagram at the top of the page. Help your child examine the new words associated with the eagle and its baby before matching the words below by circling the correct answer for each!

The information that your students can get from reading different kinds of texts is almost limitless. Whatever they are interested in; your students can easily get more knowledge on that particular topic by reading some more texts. Text features help readers navigate their way through informational texts. Read the article in the worksheet to your kids, and then help your kids check the correct name for the text features.

Reading should be a fun time for your children. Once your kids learn how to read, there will be so many new things they now have access to. In the beginning, your kids will start reading small words and short sentences before progressing on to larger texts. With this worksheet, you can test just how well your kids can read, and how well they can understand what they read. Ask them to read this text about Monarch butterflies, and then help them find and check the main idea of the text.

Reading is one habit which you can encourage your child to develop and will eventually pay off. While reading, we can learn a lot of different things from new words, phrases, spelling and even information about a particular subject. Readers use text features in order to help them read and better understand a text. Read this article in the worksheet to your little ones and help them check off the correct name for each text feature.