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Practice reading comprehension with this free, printable 3rd grade worksheet. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.3), covering objectives such as: ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers. Created with Chalkie.ai.
A reading passage with questions that require 3rd grade students to point to text evidence. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.3.1), covering objectives such as: ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.
A matching activity where 3rd grade students connect characters to their traits and motivations. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.3.3), covering objectives such as: describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.
Quick-check questions on finding the lesson or moral in fables, folktales, and myths. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.3.2), covering objectives such as: recount stories from diverse cultures and determine the central message, lesson, or moral. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.
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.
An end-of-unit test covering the key reading literature skills 3rd grade students have practiced. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.3.1), covering objectives such as: ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.
This 3rd grade writing worksheet is ready to print and use in class. Aligned to the Common Core (W.3), covering objectives such as: write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.
Structured paragraph practice where 3rd grade students state an opinion and organize supporting reasons. Aligned to the Common Core (W.3.1.a), covering objectives such as: introduce the topic, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.
Sentence starters that help 3rd grade students link ideas with words like also, another, and more. Aligned to the Common Core (W.3.2.c), covering objectives such as: use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.
A mind map for sorting research facts into groups before 3rd grade students draft a report. Aligned to the Common Core (W.3.2.a), covering objectives such as: introduce a topic and group related information together. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.
A storyboard planner where 3rd grade students map out the events of a personal narrative in order. Aligned to the Common Core (W.3.3.a), covering objectives such as: establish a situation, introduce a narrator and characters, and organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.
A writing prompt that challenges 3rd grade students to bring characters to life through dialogue. Aligned to the Common Core (W.3.3.b), covering objectives such as: use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.
Help your 3rd grade students strengthen grammar and language skills with this editable worksheet. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3), covering objectives such as: form and use regular and irregular plural nouns, and use abstract nouns. Sign up free to Chalkie.ai.
A sorting worksheet where 3rd grade students separate regular plurals from irregular ones like children and mice. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.1.b), covering objectives such as: form and use regular and irregular plural nouns. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.
A quick warm-up activity on choosing between comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.1.g), covering objectives such as: form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.
A fill-in-the-blank worksheet where 3rd grade students write verbs in past, present, and future tense. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.1.e), covering objectives such as: form and use the simple verb tenses. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.
Quick-check questions on punctuating dialogue and capitalizing words in titles. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.2.c), covering objectives such as: use commas and quotation marks in dialogue. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.
A take-home worksheet where 3rd grade students build simple, compound, and complex sentences. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.1.i), covering objectives such as: produce simple, compound, and complex sentences. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.
A Common Core-aligned 3rd grade worksheet covering vocabulary (L.3), including objectives such as: determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai. Sign up free to customize.
Fill-in-the-blank sentences that sharpen how 3rd grade students use context to define unknown words. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.4.a), covering objectives such as: use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.
A word sort where 3rd grade students order words like knew, believed, and suspected by certainty. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.5.c), covering objectives such as: distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.
Vocabulary practice where 3rd grade students add affixes to base words and define what they build. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.4.b), covering objectives such as: determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.
A matching activity pairing phrases like take steps with their literal and nonliteral meanings. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.5.a), covering objectives such as: distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.
A word search featuring the time and place words 3rd grade students need for clear writing. Aligned to the Common Core (L.3.6), covering objectives such as: acquire and use words and phrases that signal spatial and temporal relationships. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.
Build confidence in informational text with this printable 3rd grade resource. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.3), covering objectives such as: use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. Built with Chalkie.ai. Free to edit, print, and share.
A labeling activity where 3rd grade students identify sidebars, key words, and other search tools. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.3.5), covering objectives such as: use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.
A nonfiction passage with questions guiding 3rd grade students from key details to the main idea. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.3.2), covering objectives such as: determine the main idea of a text and recount the key details. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.
A matching worksheet connecting causes to effects in historical and scientific texts. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.3.3), covering objectives such as: describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or steps in technical procedures. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.
A Venn diagram where 3rd grade students compare the key points of two texts on one topic. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.3.9), covering objectives such as: compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.
An exit ticket that checks whether 3rd grade students can back answers with explicit text evidence. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.3.1), covering objectives such as: ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.
Third grade marks the shift from learning to read to reading to learn. These 3rd grade ELA worksheets cover the Common Core strands that carry that shift: reading literature (RL.3), informational text (RI.3), writing (W.3), grammar and language (L.3), and vocabulary.
Comprehension pages require students to answer questions by referring explicitly to the text, a defining third grade expectation. Informational text sheets practice using text features and search tools to locate information efficiently. Writing prompts build opinion pieces supported with reasons, while language pages tackle regular and irregular plural nouns, abstract nouns, and figuring out the new word formed when a known affix joins a known word.
Use them as reading response work, homework passages, or small-group practice for students who need another pass at a standard. Everything here is free to download and print. Teachers who sign up to Chalkie, where the free plan needs no credit card, can also edit any worksheet and swap in passages on topics their class is studying.
RL.3 literature: asking and answering questions about a text while referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.
View worksheetsW.3 composition: writing opinion pieces on topics or texts and supporting a point of view with reasons.
View worksheetsL.3 conventions: forming and using regular and irregular plural nouns and using abstract nouns.
View worksheetsL.3 vocabulary: determining the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word.
View worksheetsRI.3 informational reading: using text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
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