This hands-on resource book for Grade 3 contains 21 reproducible stories of different genre and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills. The one-and-two page stories vary in reading difficulty from mid-second through beginning fourth grade levels to meet the range of needs in an average third grade classroom.

Each story consists of text with fun illustrations, suitable for reproduction, followed by five pages of activities for practicing reading skills such as: comprehension, vocabulary development, word attack skills, phonics, and recording information.

Stories span these genre: folk tales, fairy tales, realistic fiction, nonfiction, myths & legends, poetry, and fantasy. Comprehension questions cover recalling story details, drawing conclusions, making inferences and predictions, sequencing events, generalizing, and comparing & contrasting.. Other skills covered: compound words, contractions, base word/prefixes/suffixes, syllables, possessive forms, parts of speech, and categorizing.

Complete answer key provided.