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Reading: Informational Text3rd Grade

RI.3.10

By end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band.

For parents
Encourage reading nonfiction about topics your child loves — science, animals, history, sports.
Free sample questions
  1. Question 1
    According to the passage, what role do coral polyps play in the Great Barrier Reef being the largest living structure on Earth?
    • They protect the fish living in the reef.
    • They are the tiny organisms that create the reef's structure.
    • They make the reef visible from far away.
    • They help the reef stretch over 1,400 miles by moving.
  2. Question 2
    Unlike most spiders, tarantulas don't spin webs to catch prey. Instead, they hunt by ambushing insects and small animals. Despite their scary appearance, most tarantulas are harmless to humans. What is surprising about tarantulas based on this text?
    • They are harmless despite looking scary
    • They spin webs
    • They are very small
    • They only eat plants
  3. Question 3
    Monarch butterflies migrate up to 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico each fall. No single butterfly makes the entire round trip — it takes multiple generations. The butterflies that fly south in fall are the great-great-grandchildren of the ones that flew north in spring. Why is the monarch migration remarkable?
    • They fly very slowly
    • They only travel short distances
    • Multiple generations complete what no single butterfly could
    • They migrate in summer

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