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3rd Grade Reading Tests Reading Comprehension
3rd Grade Reading Tests Reading Comprehension
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3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Assessments
Third Grade Reading Tests
Looking for comprehension assessments to be used a reading formatives or summatives in your third grade classroom? This bundle is designed to progress monitor third graders' reading comprehension throughout the year. This pack includes three comprehension tests per nine weeks for a total of 12 different 3rd grade reading tests! These reading comprehension passages and questions are perfect for spot checking your student's reading throughout the year.
Total Pages: 288
File Size: 5 MB
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Pack Highlights:
-Each test is leveled to guarantee third-grade student readability, with text and question complexity increasing as the year progresses.
- A variety of skills are covered on each assessment as shown in the top right-hand corner of the front page.
-3 passages per assessment to help foster testing stamina and meet 3rd-grade testing rigor demands.
- Each assessment includes a variety of multiple choice questions as pulled from Webb's depth of knowledge question scale.
-Each assessment features one written response question that prompts students to answer and cite evidence from the text.
-Question format modeled after PARCC/FSA and include Part A/B and multiple answer selection questions.
-A variety of fiction and non-fiction texts to spot check understanding in both Reading Literature and Reading Informational texts. Includes poems and plays in each quarter!
-Similar formatting for each assessment.
-Cloze Reading practice or editing task for each assessment
-Answer keys are included.
-Every test is classroom tested!
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Tests currently available in this bundle:
Quarter 1 Assessments:
1.1- The Missing Crayon-Realistic Fiction
How Crayons are Made- Non-fiction
The Red Crayon- Cloze Reading practice
Skills Covered:
*ask and answer questions
*sequence a story
*character actions
*problem and solution
*context clues
*steps in a scientific process
*main idea and details
*compound words
*text features
1.2- Making a Special Apple Pie-Realistic Fiction
The Real Johnny Appleseed- Non-fiction
Apple Picking- Cloze Reading practice
Skills Covered:
*ask and answer questions
*text structure
*understanding character actions
*author's purpose
*context clues
*shades of meaning
*text features (timeline)
1.3- Sand- Non-fiction
Flying a Kite with Mom- Realistic Fiction
Building Sand Castles- Cloze Reading practice
Skills Covered:
*ask and answering questions
*Story structure
*Author’s purpose
*Steps in a scientific process
*Context clues
*Content specific vocabulary
*Inference
*Text features
*Using illustrations
*Figurative language (personification)
Quarter 2 Assessments:
2.1-The Tortoise and the Hare-Fable
Interview with the Winner-Interview
Galapagos Tortoises- Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
*recount fables/folktales
*refer to plays
*comparing theme/message
*shades of meaning
*prefixes
*context clues
*using pictures to infer
*Text features
*figurative language
2.2 The Amazing Trainer- Play
All About the Bengal Tiger-Non-fiction
The Ferris Wheel- poem
The Best Time of Year- Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
*Ask and answer questions
*Using affixes
*Refer to parts of stories/describe how they are related
*Text features
*Context clues
*Figurative language
*Infer using pictures
*Shades of meaning
2.3- Men on the Money- Non-Fiction
-Memorials in Washington D.C.- non-fiction
-The Myth of the Cherry Tree- Close Reading practice
Skills covered:
*Main Idea and details
*context clues
*using content specific language
*text features
*comparing articles on a similar topic
*using search tools
Quarter 3 Assessments:
3.1- Space Plants-Non-Fiction
-Nicki's Special Bulb-Realistic Fiction
-Growing a Garden-Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
*Sequencing
*Character Actions, events (cause and effect)
*Text Features
*Using Illustrations
*Central message
*Word parts (prefix)
*Author's Point of View
*Figurative Language
*Context clues
*Multiple meaning words
3.2- The Lemonade Stand- Realistic Fiction
-A Business for Kids-Non-Fiction
-History of Lemonade-Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
*Sequencing
*Character's feelings
*Figurative language
*Author’s purpose
*Main Idea and details
*Comparatives/superlatives
*Punctuation of quotation marks
*Proper Nouns
*Context Clues
*Text features
3.3- Man's Best Friend-Non-Fiction
-A Snack for Shaggy -Realistic Fiction
-Dog Being Dog- Poem
-Training Stella-Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
*Ask and answer questions
*Sequencing
*Character Actions
*Text Features
* Making an Inference
* Lesson Learned
* Word parts
* Author's purpose
* Figurative Language
* Context clues
Quarter 4 Assessments:
4.1- Busy Buzzing Bees-Non-Fiction
-The Bee and the Goats - Play
-Anthony's Bees-Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
*Ask and answer questions
*Sequencing
*Main idea
*Text Features
* Word parts/affixes
* Theme/Moral
* Parts of a Play
* Author's purpose
* Context clues
*Citing evidence
4.2- Best Spring Break Trip, Ever!-Realistic Fiction
-Who Said? - Poem
-Wilsons Nature and Survival Camp-Cloze Reading practice
Skills covered:
Sequencing
Ask/answer questions
Literary devices
Citing information
Author’s Purpose
Sequencing events
Character’s Actions
Conventional spelling
Making an Inference
Punctuation of quotations
Word parts
Capitalization
4.3-Saving the World, One LEGO at a Time-Newspaper Article
The History of LEGO- nonfiction,
LEGO Camp -Cloze Reading Passage
Skills covered:
Ask/answer questions
Main idea and details
Citing information
compare and contrast
Sequencing events
Drawing conclusions
Author’s Purpose
Conventional spelling
Making an Inference
Punctuation of quotations
Word parts
Word choice
