3rd Grade · Reading Comprehension
The Tortoise Team
Free printable 3rd Grade reading comprehension worksheet: The Tortoise Team. It practices central message (Common Core RL.3.2). 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
- Central message
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- RL.3.2
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“The Tortoise Team” is sheet 8 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on central message, one of two sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Amelia Earhart, Sky Pioneer” and before “The Amazing Monarch Journey”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
RL.3.2 · Common Core English Language Arts · Grade 3
Reading: Literature · Key ideas and details
Children work on finding the central message or main idea and retelling or summarizing what was read.
More central message worksheets
The other 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension sheets on central message, in the order they are meant to be done.
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…”
