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One-Page NONFICTION Readings: Grade 3 Center for Urban Education

Resources to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Thinking\Writing Aligned with Common Core Standards

One-Page Readings

These passages are listed at their readability level according to the Fry formula. However, you may want to use a reading from an earlier grade level because the formula does not factor in conceptual difficulty of a text.

After the Chicago Fire sequence and summarize

American Explorers evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Animal Studies infer and support the main idea of a passage

Block Clubs infer and support the main idea of a passage

The Captain's Job infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Changes identify and support the main idea in nonfiction texts

Chicago Fire   sequence events, infer  motive, and write about nonfiction  

Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topic English / Spanish

Chicago Legacy, DuSable's Choices and Changes locate and use information to analyze a situation, then write about it English / Spanish

Chicago's First Leader infer and support the main idea of a passage

The First Flyers infer and support the main idea of a passage

George Washington Carver

Grant Park write an extended response about a nonfiction reading

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Learn about Ghana infer and support the main idea of a passage

Letter to the Mayor evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile

Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

A New Park evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Pigeon Creek infer and support the main idea of a passage

Pioneer Families infer and support the main idea of a passage

Prairie Ecology analyze information in a nonfiction text

Prairie Ecology with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Read to Learn about Symbols, Maps, and Art evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Staying in Phoenix summarize a passage

Transportation Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage

Traveling West evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

A Very Helpful Resource infer and support the main idea of a passage

What is a Fable? evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Working at the Hospital evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

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A Whale of an Ocean

This nonfiction article is written for use with upper-elementary students (grades 4-5). Modified versions are available for students in grades K-1 and grades 2-3, or any student needing a simplified version. As always, consider the reading level and needs of your students when selecting a version for classroom use.

At each grade level, the article is available in three forms. Printable pdf files allow you to print this story in either text or a foldable book format. Your students can listen to the story while they read our   electronic book  version. Related activities provide suggestions for integrating this story with your science instruction. Finally, literacy templates help you integrate this story into your literacy instruction.

Interested in other nonfiction articles for your students? Browse all twenty sets from the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears collection on our Stories for Students page!

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level = 4.7

In the warm waters off the coast of Africa, a blue whale has just given birth. The baby is already twenty-six feet long and weighs six thousand pounds. She grows around eight pounds every hour. The mother weighs as much as twenty elephants. Yet she is starving.

Why doesn’t the mother blue whale grab a quick snack? Quite simply, there is no food for her here. She will survive on her thick coat of blubber. In a few months, she will take her calf to their feeding grounds at the bottom of the world, the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica.

Before whale hunting nearly wiped them out, there were well over two hundred thousand blue whales living off Antarctica. By the time the slaughter stopped, there were fewer than a thousand left.

Why would any animal seek out the cold waters at the bottom of the world? The answer is simple: food. Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth. Yet they are adapted to eat just one kind of prey. That prey is a two-inch long animal called krill .

Krill eat tiny living things called phytoplankton . Phytoplankton float at the surface of the Southern Ocean. They use the energy of sunlight to make food. The krill eat the phytoplankton, and the blue whales eat the krill. It’s one of the simplest food chains on Earth.

Blue whales are known as baleen whales. Instead of teeth, baleen whales have flexible bristles (called baleen) in their mouths. They use these bristles like a spaghetti strainer. When blue whales find a large school of krill, they gulp enormous mouthfuls of krill and water, then push the water back out with their tongues. The baleen traps the krill inside, just as a spaghetti strainer traps noodles. The whale then swallows the krill. Yum!

But what makes these waters in the Antarctic so special that they were once home to such a huge concentration of the largest animals on Earth? There are two explanations. One is that the Earth is tilted, and the other is that cold water sinks.

Most places on Earth have regular cycles of day and night all year. At the North and South Poles, however, the tilt of the Earth means that each pole has both days and nights that last for months. In the Antarctic summer there is plenty of sunlight for the phytoplankton to make their food. But there is sunlight elsewhere, too. What else makes the Southern Ocean special? The answer is cold water.

Water is a little like air. Just as warmer air will rise above cooler air (think of a hot air balloon), warmer water rises above cooler water. In the tropics, where the Sun heats the water by day, warm water stays at the surface, while the colder water remains below.

In that deep water are nutrients that could help phytoplankton grow. But there is no sunlight there. The phytoplankton cannot grow. At the surface, there’s plenty of sunlight, but few nutrients. What’s a phytoplankton to do?

The Southern Ocean is different. It doesn’t get as hot as the tropics. So even though there’s a lot of sunlight, the water doesn’t get warm. The cold water from the surface sinks down, pushing the deeper, nutrient-rich water back up. This means there are both lots of sunlight and lots of nutrients in the same place. With plentiful sunlight and plentiful nutrients, the phytoplankton grow like crazy! The krill population explodes. The whales come to feast.

Or they once did. In the days before whaling, the Southern Ocean was alive with great whales. Some approached one hundred feet in length. In a single generation, human beings hunted these giant animals to the very edge of extinction. Today, while the blue whale is protected from hunters, its numbers remain low. A blue whale mother has just one calf every two to three years. At that rate, it will take many years for the blue whales to recover. But in time, perhaps, the whales in their thousands will again dine on krill in their millions at the bottom of the world.

baleen – stiff, flexible bristles inside a whale’s mouth

krill – small, shrimplike animals that live in the ocean

phytoplankton – small floating plants

Modified versions of this text are available for grades K-1 (Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level = 1.9) and grades 2-3 (Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level = 2.6). See below for links to all three versions in text, book, and electronic book forms.

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Notes for assembling the books:

You can put this book together a couple of different ways. You can print out the pages, cut them in half and then order the pages back to front. Fold the stack in half and then staple the spine of the book. Pairs of pages can then be stapled or glued along the right edge.

You can also assemble the book as a foldable book.

To assemble the book this way, print the four pages and align the document pages so that the following book page numbers are in the lower right-hand corner: front page, page 6, page 2, and page 4. (The cover page should be on top and page 4 on the bottom.) Set your copier to copy single pages into double pages and run the four document pages in the order specified. Cut along the dotted line in the center of the double-sided page, place the book pages in order, fold, and staple along the spine.

Electronic Books

Grades K-1 Electronic Book Articulate Version Flash Version

Grades 2-3 Electronic Book Articulate Version Flash Version

Grades 4-5 Electronic Book Articulate Version Flash Version

In the Articulate version, click on the small arrow at the top of each page for the narration. The large arrow at the right will take you to the next page.

In the Flash version, the  play  button (in the top right hand corner) will play an audio file of the text on that page, while the  pawprint  (bottom right hand corner) will turn to the next page. Please note that the audio files take a moment to load on each page. Once the file has been loaded, a  play  button will appear in the top right hand corner of the page. To minimize the delay on each page, you can open the file and read through the article first. Once each page’s audio has loaded, it remains loaded until you close the browser window. By preparing the article ahead of time, you can have students start at the beginning of the book and read without delays. If you don’t have Flash, you can download it for free from the Adobe  web site .

Related Activities

Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts The lesson uses the nonfiction picture book Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies to present factual information about blue whales and the fiction picture book Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James to demonstrate how a letter can be used to ask questions and foster inquiry about blue whales.

Planet Ocean: Blue Whale Background information about the blue whale. Suitable for independent reading by upper elementary students; useful for teachers of primary students.

Why Do Whales Make Sounds? Students will learn about the vocalizations of several whale species and the special calls of different populations of blue whales. They’ll be asked to learn snippets of whale calls and to simulate whales trying to locate each other in the ocean. The students will conclude by drawing pictures of whales vocalizing and by writing captions explaining what their pictures show.

Whale Lesson This short description combines two separate activities – simulations of whale blubber (using plastic bags and shortening) and the difference between baleen and toothed whales (using combs, toothbrushes, and pepper).

Whales Unit (Grades K-3)

Whales Unit (Grades 4-8) Interdisciplinary units focusing on whales’ characteristics and adaptations.

Literacy Templates

Use these templates to engage your students as they develop comprehension and recall skills. For more information, please see “ Active Participation: Ensuring Student Engagement .”

Find the Question for “A Whale of an Ocean” (Grades 2-3)

Find the Question for “A Whale of an Ocean” (Grades 4-5)

Literacy Set Download everything you need to use this activity in your class: a pdf version of this article, “A Whale of an Ocean” illustrated books, and the Find the Question templates.

This article was written by Stephen Whitt. For more information, see the Contributors page. Email Kimberly Lightle , Principal Investigator, with any questions about the content of this site. The content of this page was updated in July 2020.

Copyright May 2009 – The Ohio State University. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0733024. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. This work is licensed under an  Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license .

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Free Printable Nonfiction Worksheets for 3rd Grade

Nonfiction Reading & Writing: Discover a vast collection of free printable worksheets for Grade 3 students, designed to enhance their skills in reading and writing nonfiction texts. Dive into the world of knowledge with Quizizz!

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Nonfiction worksheets for Grade 3 are an essential resource for teachers who want to engage their students in the exciting world of reading and writing. These worksheets cover a wide range of topics and genres, allowing students to explore various types of texts and develop their reading comprehension skills. By incorporating these worksheets into their lesson plans, teachers can help their students gain a deeper understanding of the different reading genres and types, such as biographies, informational texts, and historical accounts. As students progress through Grade 3, they will become more confident and skilled readers, thanks to the support and guidance provided by these nonfiction worksheets.

Quizizz is an excellent platform for teachers to enhance their students' learning experience, especially when it comes to nonfiction worksheets for Grade 3. This interactive tool offers a variety of features that can be used alongside worksheets to create engaging and dynamic lessons. Teachers can create quizzes based on the reading materials and genres covered in the worksheets, allowing students to test their knowledge and understanding in a fun and interactive way. Additionally, Quizizz offers various game modes and customization options, ensuring that each quiz is tailored to the specific needs and interests of the students. By incorporating Quizizz into their teaching strategies, teachers can provide a well-rounded and comprehensive approach to reading and writing, helping their Grade 3 students excel in their literacy skills.

21 Best Nonfiction Books for 3rd Graders (8 Year-Olds)

With a third-grader at home, I am always on the hunt for a good variety of nonfiction books for her. The nonfiction choice for 8 year-olds is plenty – animals, science, history, biographies, and more. The text is simple with bright illustrations. Perfect for a read-aloud or independent reading time.

21 Best Nonfiction Books for 3rd Graders (8 Years-Old)

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Here are the 21 Best Nonfiction books to keep your 3rd graders glued to reading.

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Nonfiction Books – Animals

Fake Out!: Animals That Play Tricks

Your child would learn about bizarre animal behaviors from this picture book. Read about the mimic octopus that can change its shape, skin color, and texture to match its surroundings. Or how about a type of goat that faints whenever it feels threatened! The book is in short chapter-book format for early readers.

Animal Architects

How do spiders weave such intricate webs? Why do beavers build dams? Read about all the fascinating engineers and architects of the animal world in a nonfiction narrative. Birds, insects, mammals – every category of creatures are covered. The information is accompanied by bright real pictures.

Wild Animals of the North

From the polar bears of the north to pandas, this book takes the children along in the discovery of animals in the northern hemisphere covering each of three sections – Asia, Europe, North America. A good informational book for children in 3rd grade and above. The illustrations are big and beautiful, making this 141-page book a visual delight.

Prehistoric Mammals

This informational nonfiction book has popular and lesser-known prehistoric mammals that once occupied the earth. Starting with dinosaurs, to woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats – this book has all covered. The writing is engaging, accompanied by brilliant illustrations.

Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia

Want to know how animals are related to humans? This fun nonfiction book has a page for this! It has all types of animals and insets covered. Including what they eat, their habitat, how ferocious or friendly they are. With bright sharp pictures and snippets of helpful information about each animal, this book is a good nonfiction read.

Nonfiction Books – Biographies & History

I am Walt Disney

The person in this biography needs no introduction. Walt Disney changed the world for kids. This short nonfiction chapter book is a peek into what went behind the great mind and the innovation.

Young Gifted and Black

This book is the celebration of 52 black icons from the past and present. The stories are empowering and inspiring. A book for parents and children to have a conversation about many historic facts and issues. With great pictures and interesting stories, pretty soon your child will have a favorite role model.

The Story of Leonardo da Vinci

This literary nonfiction is about the life of Leonardo da Vinci – the famous painter and thinker. He was not only a great artist but ideated about modern inventions like contact lenses among other things. A bright and creative mind, Leonardo’s childhood and life story is a glorious read.

Egypt Collection

Take a trip to ancient Egypt and read about the great pyramids, Cleopatra’s life, mummies, and more. The text is in bold, accompanied by interesting bright pictures. This historical nonfiction book with short chapters is perfect for any reluctant third grader.

Nonfiction Books – Nature & Earth Science

This is a gorgeous book has information about different leaves and activities rolled into one. Bright pictures, along with uneven cuts and pages, transform this visual book to a higher level. It reads like a beautiful story. Third graders are sure to enjoy the activities and independent reading.

Geography: A Visual Encyclopedia

Your child will read about the geological processes that have shaped our planet for millions of years. Starting with ice ages to global warming, earthquakes, tsunamis – all periods are included in this book. Visually stunning pictures of the snowy peak of Mount Everest, dark waters of the Mariana Trench, and more – are enough to keep your child interested.

Earth and Space Science

If your child is interested in earth science, this set of five books is a good choice. Read about the various climate and their effects, extreme weather, how the moon affects the earth, and more. The reading level is suitable for 8-years-old.

101 Things For Kids To Do Outside

Children of all ages should spend more and more time outside- playing, making friends, learning life lessons, and picking a few skills along the way. It is the most important developmental activity missing for kids in this digital age. This book has plenty of outdoor activity ideas for all seasons. You do not need any fancy stuff to do these activities. With inspiring pictures and fun group game ideas, it is highly recommended by parents and educators.

Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

Let your child take the journey along with the ancient travelers, as they narrate stories of ancient wonders of the world. Kids would love to read about the hanging garden made for the Babylonian queen. The Great Pyramids in Egypt is the only one present to date, out of these seven ancient wonders. Also, check out the other books from the  Where is  series.

Nonfiction Books – Science, Engineering, Activities

The Big Book of Airplanes

Learn about airplanes of all kinds – from commercial to military to the ones farmers use for crops and even space shuttles. With complete details on each type of plane – starting with the engineering behind, operations, and task – this book is a complete guide on airplanes. With multiple pictures of each type of airplanes, this book is a visual delight.

Space: Planets, Moons, Stars, and More!

Learn about the solar system – planets, moon, stars, asteroids, Milky Way galaxy, etc in this book. The information is presented in fun fact format. The images are real NASA pictures and large. The author broke down the tough to pronounce words for ease of reading. If you are planning to get one space nonfiction book for your child, covering all concepts, this book is the ideal choice.

Big Science Workbook

Let your child make a rainbow on a sunny day. This science workbook is filled with many such interesting activities. There are a total of 306 activity pages and 14 answer key sheets. Topics include – plants, seeds, insects, weather, mammals, ocean life, birds, and more. Children can read and complete the activities independently. The perforated pages make it easier to tear.

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Science

This narrative nonfiction book covers interesting science concepts. If you are looking for a book to practice reading, along with learning – this one is a good choice. Children can also practice their test-taking skills.

Brain Quest Workbook

This engaging workbook has many things included. Fun hands-on activities and games cover various topics of spelling, vocabulary, reading comprehension, simple math concepts, and much more. Bright illustrations throughout make it interesting. This book is highly recommended by parents.

The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs

This book is for children who love to cook or bake. Step-by-step photos and pro tips make even the complex recipes easy to follow. Let your young ones bake with confidence.

Reading & Math Jumbo Workbook

Let your child practice vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, multiplication, fractions with this fun workbook. The pictures are colorful, and activities are in the format of interesting learning games. Also included are free stickers!

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How to select books for 3rd graders.

3rd graders are confident readers. They can read relatively longer sentences independently. Nonfiction books selected for 8-year-olds need to cater to their inquisitive minds while also be challenging enough to improve their reading skills. The books should be appealing with few illustrations, and the language should be simple.

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Teaching with Nonfiction Articles

Using nonfiction articles in my teaching has been extremely important for student motivation. They are a great way to improve both reading comprehension and fluency. When I find students are becoming bored with the content, I love to introduce a nonfiction article to get them interested. More often than not, quick articles with interesting facts tend to lead to thoughtful and interesting conversations. I have also found that my English Language Learners choose nonfiction over other genres. I’ve often linked this to the fact that it is relatable and they can feel comfortable participating in academic conversations with us!

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Nonfiction Article Topics

Undoubtedly, there are many different nonfiction topics to choose from. However, I tend to gravitate towards common topics that interest students. My favorites are; interesting animals, extreme weather, and the human body. Although interesting animals always make their way to the top of that list! The article below is about saving the sea turtles and what we can do to help protect sea turtles in their natural habitats! Recently, I was able to use this article as part of our weekly story on saving endangered animals. It was the perfect addition!

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I put together this set of FREE nonfiction articles for you to try with your students. I have created and shared over a dozen of these with my students, and these are definitely a fan favorite. They are tried, true, and student approved! Teaching with nonfiction articles is a great way to introduce a variety of topics. They can be tied to current events, or supplement any curriculum. In this free packet you will receive the following titles:

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The Best Nonfiction Series for 3rd-6th Grades

I’ve heard from MANY parents over the years who struggled to help their child love reading until they realized their child gravitated much more strongly toward nonfiction books than fictional stories.

When you’re one kind of reader, it can be hard to imagine your child will love a type of book you yourself have very little interest in.

I have several children who LOVE nonfiction books and it’s always a delight to find a great new nonfiction series to keep them going for a good long while.

Plus, it’s really fun to hear the interesting facts they bring up at dinner and they love sharing something with the adults that we had no idea about!

Here are some of our favorite non-fiction series for middle grade readers!

nonfiction series for 3rd-6th grades

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Reader Interactions

October 27, 2022 at 8:11 am

This list is incredible! These totally beat those standard nonfiction books you usually find at the library. This list will come inhabit for reports also! Thanks so much!

October 27, 2022 at 8:12 am

*Come in handy

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