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3rd Grade ELA Worksheets

These third grade ELA worksheets play a vital role in perfecting students' reading, writing, and overall English Language Arts abilities. Basic skills such as vocabulary and parts of speech are covered, as well as more advanced ELA topics like grammar, language mechanics, and reading comprehension practice. STW has free worksheets available in these 3rd grade topic areas.

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Reading Comprehension

Toothless Eaters - Animal Article
Discover how toothless animals eat with this interesting article and accompanying worksheet.
3rd Grade
Toothless Eaters - Animal Article 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
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Apple Trees (Short Nature Article)  FREE 
Autumn is a great time to give your students this reading comp worksheet. It consists of a short passage about apple trees and includes several questions.
3rd Grade
Apple Trees (Short Nature Article) Free 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Oliver and Peppercorn - Fiction Passage
Students will enjoy this friendship-based story and then test their reading comprehension skills by answering questions.
3rd Grade
Oliver and Peppercorn - Fiction Passage 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Surprise Pies - Grade 3 Fiction
This story about a goose named Matilda is great for kids to practice light reading. An array of reading comprehension questions that follow include vocab, short answer, a writing prompt, and multiple choice.
3rd Grade
Surprise Pies - Grade 3 Fiction 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet

Vocabulary

Your and You're (Homophones)
Use this printable to help students learn the differences between the words your and you're.
3rd Grade
Your and You\'re (Homophones) 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Homophone Baseball Sentences  FREE 
This free worksheet prompts students to choose a homophone word from the box to complete each baseball-related sentence.
3rd Grade
Homophone Baseball Sentences Free 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Synonym, Antonym, & Homophone Review
This sheet can be used to quiz or practice young learners on synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.
3rd Grade
Synonym, Antonym, & Homophone Review 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Add Prefixes to Make Sentences
Learn to construct new words by adding prefixes to each specified word to form a sentence that makes sense.
3rd Grade
Add Prefixes to Make Sentences 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet

Parts of Speech

Singular & Plural Nouns
Indicate which nouns are singular and which are plural on this third grade noun worksheet.
3rd Grade
Singular & Plural Nouns 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Noun or Adjective?  FREE 
Allow your students to practice identifying nouns or adjectives on this free parts of speech worksheet.
3rd Grade
Noun or Adjective? Free 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives
Learning about parts of speech is easier with helpful printables like this one. Students review sentences and identify the correct part of speech — noun, verb, or adjective — for each underlined word.
3rd Grade
Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Subject-Verb Agreement
Students master language skills by practicing making the subject agree with the verb in each provided sentence.
3rd Grade
Subject-Verb Agreement 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet

Grammar and Mechanics

Correctly Written Names & Addresses  FREE 
Have your students find and fix the capitalization and punctuation errors for names and addresses as written on envelopes.
3rd Grade
Correctly Written Names & Addresses Free 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Commas Separating Items in a Series
Practice using commas to separate items in a list or series. This worksheet uses the serial comma, also known as the Oxford comma.
3rd Grade
Commas Separating Items in a Series 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Add Missing Quotation Marks
This 3rd grade exercise shows sentences that are missing quotation marks. Students indicate where quotes are needed to make the sentences correct.
3rd Grade
Add Missing Quotation Marks 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet
Scrambled Sentences
Have your class unscramble the provided words to make both a statement and a question.
3rd Grade
Scrambled Sentences 3rd Grade 3rd Grade ELA Worksheet

See Also

3rd Grade ELA Buzz (Daily ELA Review)

Check out our daily spiral review for 3rd grade English Language Arts students!

3rd Grade Spelling (Full Units)

Try out STW's full year-long spelling units with your 3rd grade classroom.

3rd Grade Fix the Setences

Students can improve literacy and ELA skill by working on these 3rd grade Fix the Sentence activities.

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