Skill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 3 provides 17 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example: Fiction Stories: - "Shea and the Leprechaun" - "A Mouse Adventure" - "The Story of Little Sparrow" Nonfiction Stories: - "Inuit, People of the Far North" - "Bats" - "Harriet Tubman" Activity pages include the following: - comprehension questions - a vocabulary exercise - a sequencing activity for every story Other skills addressed include: - main idea - parts of speech - synonyms & antonyms - alphabetical order - contractions