Third grade nonfiction passages

3rd Grade

Resources to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Thinking\Writing Aligned with Common Core Standards

One-Page Readings

These passages are listed at their readability level according to the Fry formula.
However, you may want to use a reading from an earlier grade level because the
formula does not factor in conceptual difficulty of a text.

After the Chicago Firesequence and summarize

American Explorersevaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Animal Studiesinfer and support the main idea of a passage

Block Clubsinfer and support the main idea of a passage

The Captain's Jobinfer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Changesidentify and support the main idea in nonfiction texts

Chicago Fire sequence events, infer  motive, and write about nonfiction 

Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topicEnglish / Spanish

Chicago Legacy, DuSable's C Reading nonfiction worksheets - K5 Learning FYSOV