Third Grade
Worksheets
Nuts for Nuts
National Nut Day
Reading Comprehension for October 22
Uncle Archie was wild about nuts. He put them in everything - salad, stuffing, stir-fry, bread, cake, cookies, and homemade candy. He kept nuts in a candy dish in his living room. Shelby didn't understand Uncle Archie's love of nuts.
"Nuts are nature's candy!" Uncle Archie would say.
"Candy is sweet," Shelby would remind him. "Nuts are salty."
"Haven't you ever had candy with almonds or peanuts or pecans in it?" Uncle Archie asked with his eyebrows arched high above the frames of his glasses.
Shelby admitted that she had, and so Uncle Archie said, "Well, there you go," as if that settled the argument.
"Anyway," Uncle Archie continued, "nuts are only salty if they have been salted. They don't grow that way."
Shelby knew that Uncle Archie's favorite was the peanut, even though peanuts aren't really nuts. Archie liked them roasted and plain, salted and sugared, and even boiled. He liked to use peanut butter in many of his recipes. He even kept a small jar of peanuts in his car! Once he learned that nuts were good for keeping hearts healthy, he made sure to eat some every day. Uncle Archie was nuts for nuts.
One day after they had gone to the grocery store to purchase the ingredients for making peanut brittle, Shelby studied the canister of Spanish peanuts they had bought.
