Social Awareness Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 3
Bexley tells how her little cousin Dilys trembled as Aunt Rhian’s car rolled into the noisy car wash.
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- Grade
- 3
- What you get
- 10 passages at F&P levels N–P in ten text types44 pages
- Use it
- Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
- Competency
- Social Awareness
About this resource
Bexley tells how her little cousin Dilys trembled as Aunt Rhian’s car rolled into the noisy car wash. These free social awareness reading comprehension passages give Grade 3 readers ten texts at F&P levels N–P, one for each part of Social Awareness: other people’s feelings and views, kindness, gratitude, belonging, fairness, social cues and caring for the community. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.
What students practice
- Imagining what another person sees and knows
- Noticing fear and responding with comfort
- Appreciating the people behind what we enjoy
- Making a group where every part belongs
- Spotting cues that a game is not fun anymore
- Answering multiple-choice and written-response questions about what they read
What’s inside
- Answer key for the multiple-choice questions
A look inside
How to use these social awareness reading passages in Grade 3
Grade fit
Passages run from about 370 to 410 words. The early ones suit readers still settling into longer texts, and the later, higher-level ones stretch stronger third graders. Levels climb from N to P across the set.
Digital version
With the interactive digital version, you share one link and students read each passage and answer the questions on any device, with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.
Pairs well with
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Is this the full set or a sample?
It’s a full set: 10 passages with questions and an answer key, free with a free account.
How is this different from the topic sets?
It gives one passage to each of ten areas of Social Awareness. A topic set stays with one area for all ten passages.
Do students need accounts for the digital version?
No. You share one link, and students work on any device without logging in.
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