GRADE 3 After School Reading Activities
• Cross-Curricular Activities
• High-Interest Vocabulary Flash Cards
• Reading Comprehension Experiences
ISBN: 0-7424-2895-8
WORKSHEET & Sample PDF Activity
Sample PDF Activity
ABC Order Connect the Dot
A World of Its Own
Connect the words in alphabetical order.
Color the circle yellow if the word has the same vowel sound as in mom.
Color the circle brown if the word has the same vowel sound as in mother.
Connect the words in each set of colored circles in ABC order. Begin at each star.
Published by Frank Schaffer Publications an imprint of School Specialty Publishing
Table of Contents
General Introduction – 4–5
A World of Its Own (ABC Order) – 6
A Mother’s Love (ABC Order/Vowel Sounds) 7
Ouch! (Syllabication) – 8
Be a Friend to Our Planet (Syllabication) – 9
Phonics Fun (Vowel Sounds/Following Directions) 10
Time to Choose (Vowel Sounds) – 11
The Start and Finish
(Beginning/Ending Sounds) – 12
Clowning Around (L Blends) – 13
Blend Review (Blends Review) – 14
Fun With Phonics (Consonant Digraphs) – 15
Beach Weather (Consonant Digraphs) – 16
A Haunting Song (o Words) – 17
Choose a Word (o– Sound) – 18
Goose Chase (Vowel Digraphs) – 19
Half a Batch (Silent Consonants) – 20
Feeling Better (Double Consonants) – 21
Nice and Cozy (Hard and Soft C) – 22
On Stage (Hard and Soft G) – 23
Word Categories (R-Controlled Vowels) – 24
Simply Easy (Hard and Soft S) – 25
The Root of the Problem (Root Words) – 26
Zoo Loos (Rhyming Words) – 27
Put Them Together (Contractions) – 28
Proper Prefixes (Prefixes) – 29
Don’t Repeat Yourself (Prefixes) – 30
Laughable Fellow (Suffixes) – 31
Skip, Skipped, Skipping, (Suffixes –ed/-ing) 32
You’re (To, Too, Two) Much (Homophones) 33
So, Sew It (Homophones) – 34
Special Delivery (Plurals) – 35
A Backyard Football Game (Compound Words) 36
Gardening Time (Gardening Terms) – 37
School Scouts (School Terms) – 38
Belonging (Animal Families) – 39
Mystery (Mystery Terms) – 40
Those “ER” Words (General Vocabulary) 41
Parts of Speech (Parts of Speech) – 42
Hang On to These (Frequently Misspelled Words) 43
Analyzing Analogies (Analogies) – 44
Good-Bye, Jennie (Foreign Terms) – 45
Computer Talk (Computer Terms) – 46
The Study of (Science Terms) – 47
Strike Up the Band (Music Classification) – 48
Little Ones (Animal Babies) – 49
Forward and Backward (Palindromes) – 50
Fun With Run (Idioms) – 51
Serpent’s Synonyms (Synonyms) – 52
Give Me the Code Word (Synonyms) – 53
Searching for Opposites (Antonyms) – 54
Opposites Attract (Antonyms) – 55
Doing Our Job (Careers) – 56
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Holidays
(Social Studies/Holidays) – 57
American Trees (Science Vocabulary) – 58
Don’t Horse Around (Science Vocabulary) 59
Sun-Sational Puzzle (Science/Context Clues) 60
Cloud Watch (Fact/Opinion) – 61
If It Could Talk (Fact/Opinion) – 62
Two Cats (Alike and Different) – 63
Animals Long Ago (Main Idea) – 64
Gettysburg (Main Idea/Details) – 65
Rhyme Climb (Cause and Effect) – 66–67
Cause Match (Cause and Effect) – 68
A Pea Wee Plea (Inferencing) – 69
Turtle Troubles (Inferencing) – 70
Picnic Pranks (Inferencing) – 71–72
Clever Boy, Wise Mom (Summarizing) – 73
Frank and Beanie (Summarizing) – 74–75
Best Friends (Compare and Contrast) – 76
Volcanoes on Earth and Venus (Compare and Contrast) – 77
Ping and Pong (Compare and Contrast) – 78
State Search (Following Directions) – 79
Go Fish (Following Directions) – 80
The Camping Trip (Sequencing) – 81
My, How You’ve Changed (Sequencing) – 82
What Will Happen Next? (Predicting Outcomes) 83
Next (Predicting Outcomes) – 84
What a Birthday (Recognizing Details) – 85
The Pet Contest (Recognizing Details) – 86
Baseball (Interpreting a Graph) – 87
A Year in My Life
(Reading a Table of Contents) – 88–89
The Beginning of the Internet (Timelines) – 90
Snowy Day (Classification) – 91
Crazy Kitchen (Classifying) – 92
Commercials (Author’s Purpose) – 93–94
The Wizard of Oz (Author’s Purpose) – 95
A Mystery in the Night (Plot) – 96–97
What’s the Problem? (Conflict) – 98
A Perfect Celebration (Setting) – 99–100
The Goldilocks Report (Character Analysis) 101
Make-Believe (Character Analysis) – 102
Flash Cards – 103–122
Answer Key – 123–128