3rd Grade · Reading Comprehension
The Water Cycle
Free printable 3rd Grade reading comprehension worksheet: The Water Cycle. It practices cause and effect (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
- Cause and effect
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- RI.3.8
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“The Water Cycle” is sheet 6 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on cause and effect, one of three sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Maya’s Science Fair” and before “Amelia Earhart, Sky Pioneer”. 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.
More cause and effect worksheets
The other 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension sheets on cause and effect, 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…”
