Document-Based Questions for Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking (Grade 3)

Give students practice in answering the types of questions used in standardized tests. High interest stories, primary source documents, and comprehension questions encourage the use of higher order thinking skills.

There are five topic areas with six or seven lessons in each. Each lesson consists of three pages: a reading passage, a related document, and an assessment practice page containing multiple choice, true-false-explain, and short-answer document-based questions. This gives your students practice in all of the question types used in standardized testing. The students respond to the document-based questions based on the information gleaned from the passage plus its related document. Such questions improve a student’s ability to apply prior knowledge, integrate information, and transfer knowledge to a new situation.