3rd Grade · Reading Comprehension
How Bridges Stay Up
Free printable 3rd Grade reading comprehension worksheet: How Bridges Stay Up. It practices text structure (Common Core RI.3.8). For ages 8-9. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- 3rd Grade
- Subject
- Reading Comprehension
- Skill
- Text structure
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- RI.3.8
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“How Bridges Stay Up” is sheet 17 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on text structure.
In the set it comes after “The Robot Helper” and before “George Washington Carver, Plant Scientist”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
RI.3.8 · Common Core English Language Arts · Grade 3
Reading: Informational Text · Integration of knowledge and ideas
Children work on following the reasons and evidence an author gives to support a point.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Ask your child to underline the sentence that proves each answer before writing it. Finding evidence is the skill 3rd grade tests most.
- 2
Read the questions first on nonfiction passages. Knowing what to look for turns reading into a search, which keeps attention on the text.
- 3
Encourage complete sentences that restate the question: “Nora opened a lemonade stand because…”
