Literacy Resources for Third Grade Science

Standard 1 Earth, Sun, and Moon

Fiction

Thanking the Moon; Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by Grace Lin

The Man in the Moon by Luke Spychalla

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back by Joseph Bruchac

How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle

Nonfiction

The Moon by Seymour Simon

The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons

The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn M. Branley and Barbara & Ed Emberley

The Moon (True Books: Space) by Elaine Landau

Standard 2 Living and Non-living

Fiction

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds, a Book about how Living Things Grow by Joanna Cole, J Cole, B Degan and John Speirs

Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought it Back to Life by Molly Cone and Sidnee Wheelwright

The Awesome Aquarium Mystery! (Awesome Mystery) (Awesome Mysteries) [Paperback]

Carole Marsh

Fish Out of Water (Beginner Books) by Helen Palmer

Nonfiction

Living and Nonliving (Nature Basics) by Carol K. Lindeen

Is it Living or Nonliving? by Rebecca Rissman

Living and Nonliving (My World of Science) by Angela Royston

A Kid's Guide to Making a Terrarium (Gardening for Kid's) by Stephanie Bearce

What's it Like to be a Fish? By WndyPfeffer

Standard 3 Forces and Motion (simple machines)

Fiction

The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald by Clifford B. Hicks

Stranded by Jeff Probst

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Simple Story of the 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzner

Lance Dragon Defends His Castle with Simple Machines (In the Science Lab) by Eric Braun and Anthony Briglia

Nonfiction

A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom, Super Scientist by Emily Sohn

Forces Make Things Move (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Kimberly B. Bradley

Forces and Motion: A Question and Answer Book (Questions and Answers: Physical Science) by Catherine A. Welch

Simple Machines (Reading Essentials Exploring Science) by VijayaKhistyBodach

Standard 4 Gravity

Fiction

Gravity Buster: Journal of a Cardboard Genius by Frank Asch

Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity by Dave Roman

Cal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine by Richard Hamilton

Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper by Michael Reisman

Nonfiction

Gravity Is a Mystery (Let's-Read-And-Find... Science: Stage 2 by Franklyn Mansfield Branley and Edward Miller

Up, Down, All Around: A Story of Gravity (Science Works) by Jacqui Bailey

Gravity: Forces and Motion (Do It Yourself) by Rachel Lynette

Cosmic Science: Over 40 Gravity-Defying, Earth-Orbiting, Space-Cruising Activities for Kids by Jim Wiese

Standard 5 Heat and Light (friction)

Fiction

The Magic School Bus Plays Ball: A Book About Forces by Joanna Cole, Art Ruiz and Bruce Degan

Energy Island: How one community harnessed the wind and changed their world by Allan Drummond

How Raven Stole the Sun (Tales of the People) by Maria Williams

Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story by Geri Keams

Nonfiction

The Sun by Seymour Simon

The Sun (True Books: Space) by Elaine Landau

Energy from the Sun (Rookie Read-About Science) by Allan Fowler

Super-Powered Earth: Energy from the Rays of the Sun by Benita Sen

Friction (True Books) by Matt Mullins