Free 3rd Grade ELA Worksheets for Teachers

3rd grade reading comprehension on the fable The Squirrel and the Blue Jay: character traits, Bella's feelings, text evidence, and the moral.

3rd grade ask and answer questions with text evidence: The Empty Lot Project, ten questions that point to numbered paragraphs, with an answer key.

3rd grade character traits and motivations matching: Felix, Ruby, and Toby at the treehouse, 12 matches and a short answer. Answer key included.

3rd grade central message in fables: recount, find the moral, and cite key details in The Squirrel and the Jay and The Fox and the Thorns. With answer key.

A labeling activity where 3rd grade students identify chapters, scenes, and stanzas across text types. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.3.5), covering objectives such as: refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

3rd grade reading literature unit test: 25 questions on The Treehouse Project and a squirrel and jay poem, for RL.3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.5. Answer key.

3rd grade opinion writing about the best pet: state an opinion, give two reasons with linking words, write a conclusion, then a final paragraph draft.

3rd grade opinion paragraph practice with Point, Evidence, Explain, Link: a guinea pig model, a recess frame, and a field trip paragraph. Answer key.

3rd grade informative writing sentence starters: frames to introduce a topic, add facts with linking words, and write a full paragraph. Model answers.

3rd grade animal report planner: sort research facts into Appearance, Habitat, Diet, Behaviors, and a category students invent.

3rd grade personal narrative planner: brainstorm a true event, then storyboard six panels with First, Next, Then, Later, After that, and Finally.

3rd grade story with dialogue: The Glowing Door Mystery prompt, three planning questions, and a word box with whispered, gasped, and hesitated.

3rd grade grammar review: sort nouns, verbs, and adjectives, form the plurals mice and children, and complete a past, present, and future verb chart.

3rd grade regular and irregular plural nouns sort: 16 words from cats to teeth in four columns, plus two thinking questions. Answer key included.

3rd grade comparative and superlative adjectives warm-up: faster and largest, a chart for loud, good, and careful, and fixing "more louder."

3rd grade simple verb tenses fill-in: a nature center field trip story told in past, present, and future, with 11 blanks and an answer key.

3rd grade commas, quotation marks, and capitals check: book titles, city and state commas, dialogue, possessives, and a proofreading story. Answer key.

3rd grade simple, compound, and complex sentences homework: label eight sentences, combine five pairs with conjunctions, and write three of your own.

3rd grade vocabulary review: add un-, re-, and pre- to base words, use context clues for frigid and illuminate, and order words by shades of meaning.

3rd grade context clues fill-in-the-blank: a mountain camping story with ten blanks for words like dusk, famished, and slumbered. Answer key.

3rd grade shades of meaning word sort: 15 words such as knew, suspected, adored, and furious sorted into certainty, affection, and anger. Answer key.

3rd grade prefixes and suffixes organizers: meaning, examples, trick words, and a drawing for un-, re-, dis-, -less, and -ful. Answer key included.

3rd grade literal and nonliteral meanings match: idioms like cold feet and hit the hay, plus take steps and dry up in two senses. Answer key.

3rd grade time and place words word search: find above, beneath, meanwhile, until, and six more in a 12 by 12 grid. Answer key included.

3rd grade reading on how honey bees make honey, The Busy Life of a Honey Bee: main idea, two text-evidence questions, and four steps to put in order.

3rd grade nonfiction text features labeling: name the title, heading, bold word, photograph, caption, and sidebar on a planet book. Answer key.

3rd grade main idea and key details: a passage on the wood frog that freezes solid in winter, with eight questions and a full answer key.

3rd grade cause and effect in nonfiction: match canyons, seeds, and the Wright brothers to effects, then join sentences with signal words. Answer key.

3rd grade compare two texts: sort nine statements about a bat storybook and a bat fact book into a Venn diagram. Answer key included.

3rd grade find it in the text exit ticket: a hummingbird passage with two text evidence questions and a feelings scale, three tickets per page.