Reading/English
Language Arts in Grade 3
In grade 3, students move from decoding words to learning more about what words mean. They learn longer and more difficult words and words that express abstract ideas, such as time.
Readers also start thinking more about what they read. They learn how to find main ideas and supporting details in a story. They write clear sentences and paragraphs. They also get to know different kinds of writing, such as fairy tales, plays, and textbooks.
These skills help students learn to read fluently, without stopping to figure out what each word means. Students read stories, poems, and reports aloud with understanding and expression.
WHAT YOUR CHILD SHOULD KNOW
BY THE END OF GRADE 3, YOUR CHILD SHOULD KNOW AND BE ABLE TO PERFORM THESE SKILLS:
1. Use the context of a sentence to determine the intended meaning of a word with multiple meanings (such as hatch, arm, boot).
2. Apply basic rules for dividing words into syllables when reading words of four or five syllables (such as information or pepperoni).
3. Identify main ideas and supporting details in text.
4. Ask questions about readings and locate facts to answer the questions.
5. Identify themes as lessons in children’s folk tales, fables, and myths. For example, discuss the lessons the stories demonstrate.
6. Identify rhyme, rhythm, repetition, similes, and sensory images in poetry. For instance, point out ways that words create pictures and music in poetry (stars like "diamonds in the sky").
7. Write stories with beginnings, middles, and ends. Include details about the settings and characters.
8. Identify three basic parts of speech: adjective (friendly, orange), noun (school, George), and verb (speak, are).
9. Identify and correctly use common punctuation marks, including end marks, such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points; commas for series; punctuation for dates; punctuation for addresses; and punctuation in titles of books.
HOME ACTIVITIES
Encourage your child to read at home.
Some suggested titles are Summer Wheels, by Eve Bunting; Julian, Dream Doctor, by Ann Cameron; and Chicken Sunday, by Patricia Polacco.
1. Talk with your child about a book he/she is reading.
2. Ask your child to clip pictures from a magazine. Write words under the pictures to tell a story.
3. Read a short poem aloud with your child. Together, make up a tune that fits the words. Ask your child to tell you the story in his/her own words.
Grade 3 Reading Course Outline
Third Grade English/Language Arts Worksheets
Earthquakes
and Volcanoes -
grammar/science worksheet
Writing
Review 3
Double
Vowel or Double Consonant
Alphabetize
Dolch Words -
3rd grade
Vocabulary
Practice -
third grade
Sonoran
Desert Question or Statement
Words
With Two Meanings
-
third grade
Syllable
Sleuth
Select
the Tense -
past, present, future
Helping
Verbs
Nouns
worksheet 3
Possessive
Pronouns
Alphabet
Antics
Proper
Nouns -
using proper nouns
Synonyms
-
choosing the best word in sentence
Capitalization
-
geography and capitalization
My
Name is Albert -
reading comprehension
Question
or Statement -
identify a question or statement
Sonoran
Desert Activity
two
worksheets, comprehension, art
Similar
Words
vocabulary
Punctuation
Practice
Antonym
Puzzle
Pronouns
Worksheet
Antonym
Worksheet
Homophones
Worksheet
Where
in the Book? -
locating information in contents
Synonym
Worksheet 2
Vocabulary
Fun
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Spelling Words #102 - tight, stone, bright, close, tide, broke, ocean, rolled, used, closed, worried, tiger
Spelling Words #103 - bangs, swings, flops, smiles, waves, runs, bobs, grins, bumps, looks, dances, thumps
Spelling Words #104 - miner, minor, baker, ocean, suddenly, vision, permission, confusion, tension, rolled, function, beds
Spelling Words #105 - lemon, mud, pies, sister, whipped, whip, ball, cap, catch, comes, glove, off
Spelling Words #106 - plays, strikes, swing, takes, team, yea, asleep, buy, sky, cave, wakes, waved
Spelling Words #107 - dream, stream, streamer, falls, fell, feel, goes, magic, snore, store, nice, price
Spelling Words #108 - bigger, must, knot, cane, bake, cone, oh, grin, miles, biggest, bank, wave
Spelling Words #109 - sleepy, magical, smile, pillow, blanket, yellow, slumber, resting, shop, hop , flop, it's
Spelling Words #110 - collar, bitten, bite, who, bang, closer, louder, loud, brother, cherry, come, cream
Spelling Words #111 - cones, cannot, hammer, stage, thump, tiny, canes, clay, slip, star, fry, free
Spelling Words #112 - ham, gets, hooray, places, faces, stages, wooden, stream, sheets, chin, musty
Spelling Words #113 - contraband, extend, tend, interact, react, national, beyond, retract, single, double
Spelling Words #114 - ant, plate, snap, grew, grown, nap, baby, apart, clear, higher, pine, pool
Spelling Words #115 - cape, mountain, plain, plateau, valley, island, canyon, cliff, peninsula, isthmus
Spelling Words #116 - hold, holding, led, dig, pot, bus, gave, tree, feed, tap, tape, gig
Spelling Words #117 - bird, migrate, feather, beak, plume, ornithology, aviary, perch, nest, syrinx
Spelling Words #118 - shoe, coat, shirt, blouse, jacket, clothes, clothing, skirt, dress, shorts, suit, trousers
Spelling Words #119 - turkey, money, honey, monkey, hockey, pulley, gulley, valley, alley, phooey, smiley, hokey
Spelling Words #120 - properly, proper, property, protect, pronounce, profound, proclaim, propeller, proportion, protein, protest, produce
Spelling Words #121 - rip, ripe, kit, kite, car, care, gal, gale, gag, gage, sag, sage
Spelling Words #122 - glare, berry, hate, hare, easier, couple, spare, glowing, apron, palm, bush, twig
Spelling Words #123 - accident, restaurant, development, common, experience, calendar, afterward, knowledge, point, probably, believe, forget
Spelling Words #124 - hasn't, we've, wasn't, they've, you've, hadn't, don't, I've, couldn't, shouldn't, haven't, didn't
Spelling Words #125 - move, confine, base, abandon, postpone, refine, amaze, treat, retire, entertain, content, atone
Spelling Words #126 - movement, confinement, basement, abandonment, postponement, refinement, amazement, treatment, retirement, entertainment, contentment, atonement
Spelling Words #127 - compound, crystal, gas, solution, element, molecule, volume, density, chemical, chemistry, endothermic, exothermic
Spelling Words #128 - apples, corn, peach, celery, cucumber, farm, radish, strawberry, grapes, garlic, blueberry, turnip
Spelling Words #129 - treble, allegro, pitch, beat, tune, harmony, overture, chant, prelude, choir, chord, reprise
Spelling Words #130 - diner, crate, score, kitchen, pink, dinner, purchase, purse, prevent, balance, create, pocket
Spelling Words #131 - hello, worry, shy, breeze, club, kids, hi, greeting, smooth, relax, nowhere, somewhere
Spelling Words #132 - niece, uncle, cousin, aunt, grandmother, grandfather, sibling, relative, family, parents
Spelling Words #133 - surprise, craze, museum, exercise, space, escape, wake, lately, dome, strife, item, scene
Spelling Words #134 - tolerant, independence, liberty, diverse, consent, represent, , principle, ordinance, discriminate, boycott, expression, freedom
Spelling Words #135 - delegate, abolish, preamble, justice, majority, veto, constitution, impeach, appeal, amendment, article, framer
Spelling Words #136 - colony, citizen, limits, bill, trade, treaty, witness, politics, conflict, enforce, event, appoint
Spelling Words #137 - view, quiet, chief, brief , field, piece, diesel, belief, relieve, achieve
Spelling Words #138 - inedible, audible, responsible, incompatible, permissible, sensible, feasible, inflexible, illegible, possible
Spelling Words #139 - pond, wrong, monster, moon, none, bone, noon, raccoon, reason, button
Spelling Words #140 - weight, receive, perceive, weird, deceive, deceit, ceiling, reins, weigh, conceit
Spelling Words #141 - priest, relieved, siege, families, believe, friend, fierce, briefly, fiesta, pierce, thief
Spelling Words #142 - sit, site, mat, mate, tot, tote, gap, gape, kit, kite, do, doe
Spelling Words #143 - tail, tale, tag, tar, tack, taste, taken, tan, tab, talent, tank, task
Spelling Words #144 - anyway, mailbox, livestock, sometime, overcome, classroom, gingerbread, keyboard, cartwheel, proofread, postmark, paperback
Spelling Words #145 - wag, wage, rag, rage, cod, code, rat, rate, cut, cute, rid, ride
Spelling Words #146 - board, market, apartment, learn, shark, sharp, canary, chart, guard, leopard, lizard, search
Spelling Words #147 - pea, zucchini, kale, cabbage, bean, pepper, eggplant, okra, yam, potato, artichoke, beet
Spelling Words #148 - seek, peek, screen, weed, seen, peer, beetle, creep, indeed, oversee, sheep, heed
Spelling Words #149 - cashier, yield, relief, receipt, foreign, reprieve, seize, grieve, reign, veil, neighbor, forfeit
Spelling Words #150 - main, pain, rain, vain, brain, chain, drain, grain, slain, sprain, strain, stain
Spelling Words #151 - paw, claw, raw, law, gnaw, straw, jaw, awe, flaw, thaw, craw, sprawl
Spelling Words #152 - motion, action, lotion, creation, description, preparation, solution, exception, production, collection, composition, promotion
Spelling Words #153 - caught, cot, capital, capitol, coarse, course, road, rowed, through, threw, reel, real
Spelling Words #154 - sawmill, bathroom, downtown, blacktop, afternoon, herself, downstairs, rattlesnake, quicksand, scarecrow, understand, uptown
Spelling Words #155 - ancient, twice, village, against, total, interest surface, moment, forest, consider, worth, further
Spelling Words #156 - recover, restore, reform, remain, record, recall, refill, , remove, resound, review, retreat, restrain
Spelling Words #157 - can, cane, cut, cute, hop, hope, tap, tape, us, use
Spelling Words #158 - supply, correct, happen, difficulty, armadillo, stuff, chatter, gruff, necessary, rubber, skinny, struggle
Spelling Words #159 - discover, argument, symbol, leather, drove, finance, lovely, waste, fellow, crawl, mystery, practice
Spelling Words #160 - area, divisor, dividend, circumference, digits, volume, graph, diameter, perimeter, addend, radius, segment
Spelling Words #161 - whether, weather, berry, bury, break, brake, sell, cell, scent, cent, steak, stake
Spelling Words #162 - signer, representative, independence, committee, resolution, proclamation, colonists, delegates, Philadelphia, document, convention, treaty
Bonus Spelling Words #162a - fourth, red, white, blue, flag, fireworks, freedom, celebrate, colony, independence, stars, stripes
Spelling Words #163 - clown, circus, elephant, ring, lion, seal, feather, railroad, animals, travel, acrobat, performer
Spelling Words #164 - pet, responsible, cage, aquarium, habitat, iguana, turtle, rabbit, diet, parakeet, gerbil, snake
Spelling Words #165 - quill, quirk, quack, question, quarry, quartet, quota, quiz, quintet, quiver, quality, quarrel
Spelling Words #166 - someone, doorbell, inside, postcard, maybe, aircraft, bullfrog, grasshopper, himself, newspaper, oversee, undertaking
Spelling Words #167 - sketch, album, instant, edge, boom, message, camera, native, freckles, lens, hurry, direct
Spelling Words #168 - ought, bought, although, roughly, cough, shoulder, soul, boulder, cloud, mount, bound, soup
Spelling Words #169 - environment, stewardship, refuge, biodiversity, ecosystem, species, habitat, restoration, extinct, reintroduction, endangered, threatened
Spelling Words #170 - bookkeeping, dilemma, tyranny, necessity, acceptance, letter, recommend, occasionally, vaccinate, embarrass, immediate, silly
Spelling Words #171 - fiction, mention, condition, position, division, caution, fashion, fascination, conclusion, superstition, concentration, commotion
Spelling Words #172 - headquarters, flashback, lifetime, daylight, earthquake, cardboard, notebook, leftover, hardware, broadcast, watermelon, headache
Spelling Words #173 - temporarily unavailable
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Spelling Words #175 - breathe, certainly, disease, equipment, occur, rhythm, wisdom, actually, dollars, improve, surely, exciting
Spelling Words #176 - immature, improper, immobile, impossible, immoral, imperfect, impolite, impure, impatient, immortal
Spelling Words #177 - harvest, friendship, feast, family, squash, pumpkin, turkey, Thanksgiving, cornucopia, maize, settlers, yam
Spelling Words #178 - add, ask, came, wait, had, place, as, jam, cave, way, play, paint
Spelling Words #179 - winter, sled, skate, skating, snow, ice, freeze, icicle, blizzard, mittens, scarf, boots
Spelling Words #180 - avalanche, gloves, snowman, snowflake, shovel, frost, flurry, slush, drift, hat, sleet, boots
Spelling Words #181 - blithe, cleanser, fathom, abide, yield, anvil, lithe, fickle, threshold, tithe, quiver, forlorn
Spelling Words #182 - mandate, typewriter, letterhead, earthquake, colorless, newspaper, gumdrop, outbreak, jellyfish, wildcat, upland, sawmill
Spelling Words #183 - pizza, burro, gallop, vanilla, ballerina, exaggerate, ballet, accurate, blubber, dizzy, error, flannel
Spelling Words #184 - same, drive, credit, absent, sign, tired, shoes, cities, final, crayon, ditch, warmth
Spelling Words #185 - admire, comfort, debris, hermit, irritate, lunge, niche, option, pennant, render, saucer, valve
Spelling Words #186 - cupcake, daydream, seafood, wallpaper, armchair, toolbox, workbench, keyhole, cornbread, doorway, handshake, motorcycle
Spelling Words #187 - shabby, foolish, marshal, selfish, shimmer, shortage, workshop, polish, vanish, barbershop, accomplish, shepherd
Spelling Words #188 - abound, command, strand, extend, brand, grind, trend, demand, offend, profound, recommend, unwind
Spelling Words #189 - butterfly, boathouse, backyard, bullfrog, firefly, hotdog, lawnmower, seashell, rainbow, sunshine, rosebush, thunderstorm
Third Grade Science Worksheets
Animal
Sounds -
word search and alphabetize
Scrambled
Animals -
letter B
Scrambled
Animals
Manatee
Fact Sheet
Loggerhead
Turtle Fact Sheet
Lizard
and Bullfrog Fun Sheet
Animal
Families
Reptile
Word Search Puzzle
Insect
Word Search Puzzle
Birds
Fact or Opinion -
with word search
Planet
Cryptogram -
two page planet worksheet
All
Mixed Up -
two page planet worksheet
Third Grade History Worksheets
Churning
Butter -
Coloring and information page
Work
in Ancient Egypt -
occupations worksheet
Third Grade Social Studies Worksheets
Following
Directions -
following directions, map skills, fine motor
Map
Study 1
Third Grade Mythology Worksheets
Greek
Gods -
word search puzzle
Mythology
Mystery -
Greek mythology worksheet