3rd Grade Reading Homework Review - Character Traits - Common Core Aligned

This resource is a weekly review of character traits and describing characters. This can be used for homework, morning work, or classwork. It would be perfect to use during a fiction unit or after the unit for reinforcement.

About the Character Traits Reading Homework

This resource contains 4 stories written at two levels: for average 3rd grade readers and for below 3rd grade readers.

One story is meant to be used for an entire week.

There is a different assignment each day with the same story. The students will revisit the story each day to complete the daily assignment. This will support a deeper understanding of the story and provide the student a chance to practice close reading.

There are 3 options for the daily assignments for you to choose from based on your students' needs. A blank directions page, if you want to write in your own directions for the daily assignments, is also included.

For each option, Monday through Wednesday are general, open-ended responses to the text, and Thursday is a set of text-dependent questions specific to each story. The questions are all short answer for this set.

Follow these steps to assign the review work:

1. Choose and print the directions and passage level you want to use.

2. Print the Thursday questions.

3. Staple the three pages and you have a week’s worth of review ready for your students.

An answer key with suggested answers is included.

Common Core Alignment

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events