Icky Ants Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Icky Ants Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 3rd Grade readers a short nonfiction text about the work an ant colony does underground, five questions, and an answer key, so students practice finding evidence in what they read.
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Description
This Icky Ants Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives third graders a short nonfiction text about the insects most of us shoo off the picnic blanket. Reading and understanding informational text is one of the biggest jobs of third grade, and a passage that changes a student’s mind about something in their own backyard makes that work feel worth doing. This icky ants reading comprehension worksheet pairs a 228-word text with questions that send students straight back to the words on the page.
The passage starts where students already are: ants can look icky. Then it explains what a colony is, why the small hill of loose dirt on a sidewalk is only the front door, how the tunnels below let air and rain reach plant roots, and how ants carry scraps away and drop seeds that grow into new plants. Students answer four multiple choice questions and one written response. Every question can be answered from the text, so students practice finding evidence instead of guessing. Print the sheet, read it together or independently, and use the answer key to check the work in a minute.
What’s Included
- A one-page nonfiction passage about ant colonies, written at a third grade reading level
- Four multiple choice questions with fill-in-the-bubble answer choices
- One written response question with lines for a two-part answer
- A full answer key on the final page
- A print-ready PDF sized for standard letter paper
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- It builds evidence habits. Every question points back to a sentence in the passage, so students learn to reread instead of recall.
- It teaches vocabulary in context. Colony and antennae are each defined right in the sentence that introduces them.
- It replaces a reaction with a reason. Students finish able to explain what ants actually do for a yard, which is exactly the kind of thinking a comprehension test asks for.
Teacher and Parent Ideas
Use this icky ants reading comprehension worksheet to open a life science unit: read the passage on Monday, answer the questions on Tuesday, and take the class outside on Wednesday to find a real anthill and watch it without disturbing it. Ask students to underline every job the passage says ants do before they touch a question. For a quick extension, have them write a short paragraph arguing whether icky is a fair name for an ant, using two details from the text. This 3rd grade insects reading worksheet also works well in a habitats unit, in a reading center, or as homework families can finish at the kitchen table.
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