3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets: The Recipe Mix-Up
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Skill: Reading a story: text evidence and character actions
Teaching tips and what to try next
This story is a good fit for third graders practicing text evidence and character actions. Before answering, have your child retell what went wrong in the kitchen in order. For another story at this level, try Reading Comprehension: The Missing Library Book.
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About this worksheet
In this original third grade story, Grandpa Joe hurts his wrist right before the family reunion, so his grandson Omar has to make Grandpa's famous cornbread. The old recipe card is stained, and a smudge hides the amount of salt. Omar guesses wrong, learns the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon, and starts over, measuring everything twice.
The passage is followed by four multiple-choice questions and one short written answer. The questions ask why Omar was cooking, what was wrong with the recipe card, what Grandpa meant when he said the cornbread "would taste like the ocean", what Omar did differently the second time, and why he rewrote the card at the end.
How to use it: read the story together and stop after the third paragraph to ask what your child thinks will happen next. After each question, have your child underline the sentence that proves the answer. Third graders are expected to refer to the text when they answer, and this simple routine builds that habit. The story is also a nice lead-in to measuring cups and spoons in the kitchen.
The answer key gives each correct choice with a quote from the story and a sample written answer. For another story, try our Lost Library Book reading comprehension worksheet.