What Is a Magnet?

Introduce your students to magnets with this scaffolded reading worksheet built for 3rd grade. The short, kid-friendly passage explains what a magnet is, what magnetic materials are, and why some objects stick while others do not. It ends with the everyday example every child knows: why a magnet sticks to the refrigerator door.

Key science vocabulary is bolded right in the text, so the reading doubles as a vocabulary builder. Comprehension questions climb gently from recall to reasoning and include multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank with a word bank, so every learner can show what they understand. A friendly illustration anchors the closing concept.

This resource works perfectly as the reading front-end to a hands-on magnets unit, a science-literacy center, early-finisher work, sub plans, or homework. Everything is no-prep: just print and teach. A clean answer key is included, and the answer key skips the passage to save your ink.

• Grade 3 • NGSS 3-PS2-3
• 1 reading passage + 8 comprehension questions
• Multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank
• Print-and-go PDF with answer key