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Decision-Making Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 3

Grade 3 · Responsible Decision‑Making · Reading Comprehension

At a windy park picnic with her mom, napkins and plates keep flying off the table.

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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: Responsible Decision‑Making

About this resource

At a windy park picnic with her mom, napkins and plates keep flying off the table. These free decision-making reading comprehension passages give Grade 3 readers ten texts at F&P levels N–P, one for each part of Responsible Decision-Making: careful, honest and fair choices, solving problems, owning mistakes, asking for guidance and acting for others. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Being someone others can count on
Choosing the fair split when you could take more
Knowing when trying alone has turned into being stuck
Deciding to act on something your community 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 student profile, a fable and a narrative nonfiction story

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

The Picnic That Kept Blowing AwayAt a windy park picnic with her mom, napkins and plates keep flying off the table.

The Muddy Hallway Mix-UpRustam tells how his little sister got blamed for muddy prints in the hallway that he had made.

Crispin the Grackle Divides the BerriesCrispin the Grackle and his friend Pipit find one berry bush.

Try-It Time or Help Time?At a family campout, cousins Sacnite and Quentin each pitch a tent.

The Book Box on Birch CornerTavish notices the book box on his corner is empty and its books are soggy.

How to use these decision-making reading passages in Grade 3

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

A short SEL lessonRead “The Seeds That Hitched a Ride” 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 “The Choice Web”

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.