Civic Responsibility - 3rd Grade Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages

Are you looking for a way to teach your students about civic responsibility? Check out this set of ten standards-based passages to integrate important social studies ideas on what civic responsibility is and how students can participate in their community into your ELAR block!

These civic responsibility passages and questions were created to help you integrate 3rd grade social studies into reading. I know classrooms are short on time, and this resource will give you twice the learning!

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Each civic responsibility passage and set of questions takes up a single page and includes an optional extension activity for further learning. The topic of each civics passage was chosen to meet the streamlined social studies TEKS for 3rd grade all about what it means to take part in civic responsibilities. Multiple genres are used including fiction, expository, poetry, diary entries, biographies, infographics, graphic organizers, and maps.

These civics passages could be completed together in a small group setting, individually, or used for a station or center activity. The possibilities are endless!

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This resource has both printable and digital formats to meet the needs of all classrooms and includes an answer key.

Included in this set of Civic Responsibility passages:

• Acts of Civic Responsibility Narrative
• Nonprofits and Civic Organizations Poster
• Serving the Community Newspaper Article
• The Red Cross Graphic Organizer
• Improving the Community Poem
• Mercy Ships Quiz Answer Key
• Serving on a Jury Song Lyrics
• The ASPCA Informational Passage
• Voting as a Responsibility Memo
• Environmental Defense Fund Infographic

➡️Please view the preview for a more complete look at the resource.

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The Social Studies TEKS covered in this Good Citizenship resource include:

• Citizenship. The student understands characteristics of good citizenship as exemplified by historical and contemporary figures and organizations. The student is expected to:
  • identify and describe individual acts of civic responsibility, including obeying laws, serving and improving the community, serving on a jury, and voting; and
  • identify examples of nonprofit and/or civic organizations such as the Red Cross and explain how they serve the common good.

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More 3rd Grade Social Studies Passages?

• How Individuals and Events Influence Communities
• Why People Form Communities
• How Communities Meet Their Needs
• Physical Environments of Communities
• Adapting and Modifying Our Communities
• Humans' Effects on the Physical Environment
• Map Skills
• Money and Budgeting
• The Free Enterprise System
• Entrepreneurship
• Government
• Historical Documents
• Good Citizenship
• Civic Responsibility
• Community Culture
• Heroes in the Community
• Artists in the Community
• Scientists and Inventors
• Technology
• Celebrate Freedom

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