Grade 3 Lesson plan
Larchwood Plant Microbes: A Grade 3 Zoom-In Drawing Lesson
Grade 3 students read a fact card on the tiny living things that clean used water at a made-up plant, then draw one large in a circle with contour line and texture.
Common Core ELA · Grade 3
RI.3.1 Answering questions with explicit text evidence
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Why water teaches this standard well
Third graders answer questions about water passages, such as how a raindrop reaches a river or what a treatment plant operator does all day, referring explicitly to the text for their answers. Informational water texts reward students who go back and point to the sentence.
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54 materials aligned to RI.3.1
Lesson plans
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Ashfen's Recharge Basin: A Grade 3 Short Research Lesson
A grade 3 short research lesson in which students gather facts from three short sources about a fictional town's wells and build one shared fact card.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
The Summer the Barrowdale Pond Ran Low: A Grade 3 Narrative Lesson
A grade 3 narrative writing lesson in which students plan and draft a story about a dry summer in Barrowdale, using time words, dialogue, and a clear ending.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Asking Questions About the Coppermill Pump House: A Grade 3 Lesson
Students use question words to ask and answer questions about a short text on a hilltop pump house, then write an informative paragraph about what it does.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
What the Testers Check at Mosswick Pond: A Grade 3 Research Lesson
A grade 3 short research lesson in which students read three fact cards about testing at Mosswick Pond and write findings in their own words.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
The Gates at Tumbleford Dam: A Grade 3 Informative Lesson
A grade 3 informative writing lesson set at a fictional dam, where students read a gate-house fact sheet and draft a grouped-facts paragraph about it.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
The Brambleton Family Reads a Boil-Water Notice
A 40-minute grade 3 health lesson where students read a fictional town's boil-water notice and answer questions by highlighting the sentence that supports each answer.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Why Ambleforth Farms Irrigate and Inglemoss Farms Do Not
A 45-minute grade 3 science lesson where students read three climate cards for invented farming regions and explain which farms must water crops and why.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Water Report Day in Tansy Glen: A Grade 3 Civics Lesson
Students read the fictional town of Tansy Glen's yearly water report card and explain why the town promised to test its water often and tell everyone the results.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Cider Mill's Storm Drain Rule: A Grade 3 Civics Lesson
A 45-minute grade 3 civics lesson where students read how the town of Cider Mill made a storm drain rule to keep its creek clean, then map the problem.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
How Water Reaches Rocky Ford: A Grade 3 Mapping Lesson
A 45-minute grade 3 social studies lesson where students order and map the stops water passes through to reach the fictional town of Rocky Ford.
Worksheets
Grade 3 Worksheet
Cindergrove Park Recycled-Water Signs: A Grade 3 Design Worksheet
Grade 3 students read a town's design brief and make color, contrast, picture, size, and placement choices for purple recycled-water signs in a drought-hit park.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Which Way Does the Water Go on Cider Gap Ridge?
A grade 3 reading worksheet about a fictional ridge that splits rain between a town pond and a farm pond, with text-evidence and apply-the-idea items.
Grade 3 Worksheet
The Pump That Pushes Water Up Toppins Hill in Crayford
A grade 3 reading worksheet about a fictional booster pump that lifts town water to houses on a hilltop, with text-evidence and apply-the-idea items.
Grade 3 Worksheet
After the Drain in Cinderport: A Grade 3 Sequence Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet that follows used water from a kitchen drain to the creek in Cinderport, practicing order words and answers drawn from the text.
Grade 3 Worksheet
The Hydrants on Larkmoss Lane: A Grade 3 Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet about the fire hydrants on one fictional street, with text-evidence items, a word-meaning item, and a short writing item.
Grade 3 Worksheet
The Marsh Below Netherby Road: A Grade 3 Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet about a fictional town that dug a marsh to catch road runoff, with text-evidence, word-meaning, and apply-the-idea items.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Snow on the Pellard Range: A Grade 3 Reading Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet about a fictional town whose lake is fed by melting snow, with text-evidence, word-meaning, and apply-the-idea items.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Two Jobs at the Penhurst Water Plant: A Grade 3 Worksheet
Students read two short texts about a plant operator and a lab worker at the same water plant, then answer questions and compare what the two jobs take.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Drip Lines at Yarrowmere Farm: A Grade 3 Reading Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet about a strawberry farm that traded sprinklers for drip lines, with text-evidence, word-meaning, and apply-the-idea items.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Safe Water to Drink on the Bluff Creek Hike
A grade 3 worksheet where students read a ranger's rule about drinking water on a class hike and decide which water sources on the trail are safe to drink.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Help Wanted in Twin Pines: A Grade 3 Water Jobs Worksheet
Students read four help-wanted notices from the fictional town of Twin Pines and use the text to match each water job to the problems it solves around town.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Blue Heron Creek's Watershed: A Grade 3 Map-Reading Worksheet
A grade 3 social studies worksheet where students read a described map of the Blue Heron Creek watershed and explain how a town protects the land.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Following the Pipes to Fernbrook Elementary: A Grade 3 Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet in which students trace how water travels from a town water tower to a fictional school and answer text-evidence questions.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Cleaning Up Heron Pond: A Grade 3 Cause-and-Effect Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet in which students read about a fictional pond's pollution and cleanup and match causes to effects using text evidence.
Grade 3 Worksheet
The Okafor Family's Well at Marsh Hollow Farm: A Grade 3 Worksheet
A grade 3 reading worksheet in which students read a short passage about a farm well and answer questions about groundwater using evidence from the text.
Classroom activities
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Water Words Scavenger Hunt at the Thistlewood Treatment Plant
A grade 3 partner scavenger hunt where students read eight clue cards about treatment-plant jobs and steps and answer each question with text evidence.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Two Meanings for One Word at the Cobbledon Water Yard
A grade 3 six-station game on multiple-meaning words such as main, plant, and spring, using paired sentences from a town water yard and from everyday life.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Morning Samples at the Waverling Water Lab: A Readers Theater Script
A grade 3 readers theater script for five roles about one morning of water testing at a small-town lab, with eight handout questions and a full key.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Ranking Three Cleanup Plans for Marlden Brook: A Grade 3 Activity
A 45-minute grade 3 activity in which groups rank three cleanup plans for a made-up brook against three posted conditions and defend a final pick.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Foxglove Pipe Path Walk: A Grade 3 Water Route Activity
Grade 3 students walk a taped floor path from lake to tap, reading short route cards and drawing and labeling a station sign for each stop water passes.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Guess the Water Job: A Grade 3 Charades and Badge Design Activity
Grade 3 students read short water-job clue cards, act the jobs out for classmates to guess, then design a picture badge and caption for one job.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Reporter Notebooks at the Glassford Water Plant
A grade 3 partner role-play in which one student interviews the other about the night a water main broke, answering only from a printed fact card.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
Describe and Draw at the Pinnowen Water Yard
A grade 3 partner activity where one student reads a description card from a fictional water yard aloud and the other draws it from the words alone.
Grade 3 Classroom activity
The Pepperbush Water Walk: From Lake to Drinking Fountain
A grade 3 station walk where students act out how the fictional town of Pepperbush turns lake water into safe fountain water, then answer the station card questions.
Reading passages
Grade 3 Reading passage
Where Rushden, Lambourne, and Cragmoor Find Their Water
A grade 3 informational passage about three made-up towns in three climates, each storing water a different way, with seven comprehension questions.
Grade 3 Reading passage
The Crew That Fixed the Break on Bellow Street
A grade 3 informational passage about a fictional town's broken water main, the crew that repaired it, and seven questions with a full answer key.
Grade 3 Reading passage
Making Salty Water Fresh at Harkspur Bay
A grade 3 informational passage about a fictional seaside town that takes the salt out of bay water in dry years, with seven questions and an answer key.
Grade 3 Reading passage
Every Drain in Lindenrow Leads to Catbriar Creek
A grade 3 first-person passage about a class walking its schoolyard with a water map and learning what a watershed is, with seven comprehension questions.
Grade 3 Reading passage
The Tiny Cleaners in Stonewhistle's Water Tanks
A grade 3 informational passage about the microbes that do the real work at a used-water plant, with seven questions that mix stated facts and inference.
Grade 3 Reading passage
A Hot Day at the Dragonfly Relay Races
A grade 3 narrative passage about a runner who skips a water break on a hot race day, with comprehension questions on the signs that a body needs water.
Grade 3 Reading passage
The Drill Rig That Found Water Under Yeoverly
A grade 3 informational passage following a well driller as she reads maps, drills to an aquifer, and waits for lab results before a fictional town uses its new well.
Grade 3 Reading passage
The Night the Water Main Broke on Bellflower Street
A grade 3 narrative passage in which a night repair crew fixes a broken water main on Bellflower Street while a curious neighbor named Mia watches it happen.
Grade 3 Reading passage
Where Used Water Goes in Harmony Corners
An informational grade 3 passage tracing bath water from a drain in the fictional town of Harmony Corners through the clean-up plant and back to the river.
Grade 3 Reading passage
Marigold's Dry Summer: How a Town Made a Water Rule
A grade 3 informational passage about how the town of Marigold faced a dry summer and made a water-saving rule to protect its well and creek.
Grade 3 Reading passage
Windmill Hill: How a Town Pumped Water Then and Now
A grade 3 informational passage about how the fictional town of Windmill Hill once pumped water with a windmill and now uses an electric pump and an operator.
Grade 3 Reading passage
How Hoover Dam Turns Moving Water Into Electricity
A grade 3 informational reading passage explaining how Hoover Dam uses moving water and spinning turbines to make electricity, with text-evidence questions.
Grade 3 Reading passage
The Cleanup at Elm Creek: A Grade 3 Water Pollution Story
A grade 3 informational passage following a class club that checks four spots along a fictional creek, finds trash and litter, and organizes a cleanup.
Grade 3 Reading passage
How Water Climbs the Hill: A Grade 3 Pumping Reading Passage
A grade 3 informational passage explaining why water cannot flow uphill on its own and how pumps push it into a tower so gravity can finish the job.
Quizzes & test questions
Grade 3 Quiz & test questions
The Old Aldermill Dam on the Whitlow River: A Grade 3 Quiz
A twenty-four-point grade 3 quiz on a passage about a fictional mill dam and the rock ramp replacing it, ending with a short explanatory paragraph.
Grade 3 Quiz & test questions
Why Mossgill Pond Turned Green: A Grade 3 Reading Quiz
A twenty-point grade 3 quiz on a passage about a fictional school pond that turned green after lawn food washed downhill, mixing choice and short answer.
Grade 3 Quiz & test questions
Larkenmoor's Boil-Water Notice: A Grade 3 Civics Quiz
A 20-point grade 3 quiz built on a short boil-water notice from a fictional town water department, asking students to answer by pointing to the text.
Graphic organizers
Grade 3 Graphic organizer
Who Keeps Havenreach's Water Running: A Grade 3 Organizer
A grade 3 question-and-evidence organizer on four water department jobs in a fictional town, with a fact sheet students quote to support each answer.
Grade 3 Graphic organizer
Safe or Unsafe? A Grade 3 Home Water Safety Organizer
A grade 3 compare-and-sort organizer where students use a short reading passage to decide whether home water habits are safe or unsafe, with a completed teacher exemplar.