RL.3.1 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
:"Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers."
These worksheets, workbooks, and lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
Worksheets
Introductory Phrases
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Introductory Phrases
As you know, an introductory phrase sets the stage for the rest of the sentence. Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence when making predictions.
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Making Predictions with Text Evidence
Worksheet
Making Predictions with Text Evidence
This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.
3rd Grade
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Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show
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Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show
Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.
3rd Grade
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Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions
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Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions
Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.
3rd Grade
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Finding the Problem and the Solution with Question Words
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Finding the Problem and the Solution with Question Words
Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.
3rd Grade
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Common Question Words
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Common Question Words
Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.
3rd Grade
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Lesson Plans
Close Reading: Introduction
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Close Reading: Introduction
Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.
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Characters Change Just Like We Do
Lesson plan
Characters Change Just Like We Do
Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.
3rd Grade
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Traditional Literature: Story Mapping
Lesson plan
Traditional Literature: Story Mapping
Students will learn how to identify story elements and create a short and sweet summary. They will fill out a graphic organizer and solidify their understanding by creating illustrations to show major plot points that they find themselves!
2nd Grade
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Fairy Tales: Character Traits
Lesson plan
Fairy Tales: Character Traits
In this literary lesson, students use fairy tales to practice identifying character traits. Students are challenged to justify their reasoning using text based support.
2nd Grade
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Asking and Answering Questions
Lesson plan
Asking and Answering Questions
This lesson helps students learn about asking and answering questions about a text. It also exposes them to valuable lessons about trying to figure out their dreams and not giving up along the way.
2nd Grade
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Red Light, Green Light Questions
Lesson plan
Red Light, Green Light Questions
Teach your students to ask and differentiate between recall questions and inferential questions. This lesson will help build a classroom culture around asking deep, inferential questions.
3rd Grade
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Workbooks
My Vacation
Workbook
My Vacation
In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.
3rd Grade
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Games
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Exercises
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