3rd Grade Veterans Day Reading Passage

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Read the passage. Then answer the questions. When they finish, check the work together with the answer key.

A three-paragraph nonfiction passage, Veterans Day: From Armistice Day to Today, explains that the fighting in World War I stopped at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, defines an armistice as an agreement to stop fighting, and tells how the first Armistice Day in 1919 was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 to honor everyone who served. Two multiple choice questions ask for the holiday's first name and the meaning of armistice, and a written question asks why the name changed. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then answer the questions. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade paragraphs & passages, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with nonfiction passages. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A nonfiction passage, also called informational text, gives true facts about a real topic, such as how puffins nest or how a submarine dives. On this page there are 65 of them for 3rd grade, each with an answer key.

The main idea is what the whole passage is mostly about. The details are the facts that support it. A quick check: if a sentence could be covered up and the passage would still make sense, it is probably a detail rather than the main idea. Ten sheets have children fill in a main idea web with three key details.

Main idea and key details (RI.3.2), asking and answering questions (RI.3.1), the order of steps in a process (RI.3.3 and RI.3.8), word meanings from context clues (RI.3.4), an author's point of view (RI.3.6) and maps, tables, bar graphs and timelines (RI.3.7). Each new sheet names its skill in the header.

It is a sheet with a whole text to read, followed by questions that send the reader back into the text for the answers. This 3rd grade page has 112 sheets, including 65 nonfiction passages, 20 fiction passages and 20 reading comprehension nonfiction sheets, and every sheet has an answer key.

Most sheets have the passage on page one and the questions on page two. The newer nonfiction sheets each practice one skill: a main idea web, who, what and why questions with paragraph numbers, numbering steps in order, reading a map, table, bar graph or timeline, listing an author's reasons, or matching six bold words to their meanings with context clues. The older nonfiction and fiction passages mix multiple choice questions with short written answers.

Yes. The 65 nonfiction passages give true facts about a real topic, such as owls, the Liberty Bell or how cheese is made, and ask for the main idea, text evidence, sequence, visual information, point of view and word meanings. The 20 fiction passages tell a short story and ask for the theme and how a character feels. The opinion articles use made-up writers, and each one says so on the page, but the facts in them are real.

Yes. Each of the 85 nonfiction and fiction passage sheets comes with an answer key that shows the correct choices, sample answers for the written questions and other answers to accept.