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Relationship Skills Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 3

Grade 3 · Relationship Skills · Reading Comprehension

New student Elspeth asks Ezio how to find the art room, and his muddled directions send her to the gym.

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Grade: 3
What you get: 10 passages at F&P levels N–P in ten text types44 pages
Type: Reading Comprehension
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
Competency: Relationship Skills

About this resource

New student Elspeth asks Ezio how to find the art room, and his muddled directions send her to the gym. These free relationship skills reading comprehension passages give Grade 3 readers ten texts at F&P levels N–P, one for each part of Relationship Skills: listening, friendship, teamwork, solving conflicts peacefully, bullying, peer pressure, respect and speaking up. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Giving clear, step-by-step directions
Keeping a friendship you see once a year
Practicing back-and-forth conversation
Watching and signaling teammates
Finding a solution that meets both needs
Answering multiple-choice and written-response questions about what they read

What’s inside

10passages at F&P levels N–P in ten text types, including a school news feature, a compare-and-contrast piece and a first-person reflection

5multiple-choice questions per passage

2open-ended questions per passage that call for written answers

44pages

Answer key for the multiple-choice questions

A look inside

Summer-Visit FriendsYour Questions Answered: Answers questions about a friend seen only on summer visits to relatives: can a once-a-year friend be real, how to pick up again, what if one of you changed, and awkward first days.

Under the Lion’s HeadSoraya, a third grader in a lion dance troupe, explains how the head and tail dancers signal each other, why the tail watches the head’s feet, and what a month as the head taught her.

Telling to Help or Telling to Get Someone in Trouble?Compares telling a teacher because someone is hurt, unsafe or picked on again and again with telling just to get someone in trouble.

Hollyhock the Bee Meets the WormsHollyhock the Bee brags that bees do the important garden work and hums over the worms when they speak.

I Asked the Coach to Show HerKaveh tells how new tumbler Noelani, who is learning English, kept missing the coach’s spoken drills at a community center class.

How to use these relationship skills reading passages in Grade 3

Small reading groups at levels N–P, working through the multiple-choice questions together

A short SEL lessonRead “Which Way to the Art Room?” aloud and talk it through together

Independent practice or homework, checked later with the answer key

Written responseStudents answer the two open-ended questions after a passage such as “Why We Sometimes Go Along With the Group”

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.