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Self-Awareness Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 3

Grade 3 · Self-Awareness · Reading Comprehension

Ozan keeps clowning around at his first community art class.

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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: Self-Awareness

About this resource

Ozan keeps clowning around at his first community art class. These free self-awareness reading comprehension passages give Grade 3 readers ten texts at F&P levels N–P, one for each part of Self-Awareness: naming feelings, body signals, strengths, self-talk, mistakes, values and triggers. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Finding the feeling underneath the one that shows
Using your surroundings to tell what a body signal means
Understanding that different strengths suit different tasks
Knowing what stays true about you
Using helpful questions as self-talk
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 science piece, a fable and a school news feature

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

Icy Fingers Before the RecitalRaukura’s fingers feel icy before her piano recital.

Three Things That Stay True About Me: A guide for remembering who you are on a bad day: write three things that stay true about you, like “I’m a big sister,” keep the list in your pocket, and reread it.

Thistle the Squirrel’s Show-Off LeapThistle the squirrel leaps for a branch too far while friends watch and lands in wet leaves.

Huxley’s Keepsake BoxEach Sunday, Huxley adds one small thing from his week, like a ticket stub, to his keepsake box and tells Grandma about it.

Face-Down PapersA Third-Grade Trigger Check: The class paper reports on third graders who noticed big feelings when graded work came back and everyone compared scores.

How to use these self-awareness reading passages in Grade 3

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

A short SEL lessonRead “Silly on the Outside at Art Class” 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 “Values Are Roots”

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.