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Grade 3 ELA Worksheets

Free printable and interactive Grade 3 reading, writing and grammar worksheets aligned to Common Core. 281 worksheets so far. Every worksheet has an answer key and can be completed online with instant feedback.

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Grade 3 ELA topics & skills

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Reading: Literature

RL.3.1

Ask and answer questions to show understanding of a story, using the text itself as the basis for the answers.

RL.3.2

Retell stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures, and explain how key details show the central message or moral.

RL.3.3

Describe a character's traits, motivations, or feelings and explain how the character's actions move the sequence of events along.

RL.3.4

Work out the meaning of words and phrases in a text, telling literal language from nonliteral language.

RL.3.5

Use terms like chapter, scene, and stanza to talk about the parts of stories, dramas, and poems and how each part builds on earlier ones.

RL.3.6

Distinguish your own point of view from that of the narrator or of the characters.

RL.3.7

Explain how a story's illustrations add to its words, such as by setting a mood or stressing a trait of a character or setting.

RL.3.9

Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories by the same author about the same or similar characters.

RL.3.10

By the end of the year, read and understand stories, dramas, and poems at the high end of the grades 2-3 level, independently.

Reading: Informational Text

RI.3.1

Ask and answer questions to show understanding of an informational text, using the text itself as the basis for the answers.

RI.3.2

Determine the main idea of a text, recount its key details, and explain how they support the main idea.

RI.3.3

Describe how historical events, science ideas, or steps in a procedure are related, using words about time, sequence, and cause and effect.

RI.3.4

Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words and phrases in a text on a grade 3 topic.

RI.3.5

Use text features and search tools such as key words, sidebars, and hyperlinks to find information on a topic quickly.

RI.3.6

Distinguish your own point of view from the author's point of view.

RI.3.7

Use illustrations such as maps and photographs together with the words to show understanding of where, when, why, and how events happen in a text.

RI.3.8

Describe the logical connection between sentences and paragraphs in a text, such as comparison, cause and effect, or sequence.

RI.3.9

Compare and contrast the most important points and key details in two texts on the same topic.

RI.3.10

By the end of the year, read and understand informational texts in history, science, and technical subjects at the high end of grades 2-3, independently.

Foundational Skills

RF.3.3.a

Identify and know the meanings of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.

RF.3.3.b

Decode words with common Latin suffixes.

RF.3.3.c

Decode multisyllable words.

RF.3.3.d

Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

RF.3.4.a

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

RF.3.4.b

Read grade-level prose and poetry aloud with accuracy, an appropriate pace, and expression on repeated readings.

RF.3.4.c

Use context to confirm or fix word recognition and understanding, rereading as needed.

Writing

W.3.1.a

Introduce the topic or text, state an opinion, and plan an organization that lists the reasons.

W.3.1.b

Give reasons that support the opinion.

W.3.1.c

Use linking words and phrases such as because, therefore, since, and for example to connect the opinion and the reasons.

W.3.1.d

Write a concluding statement or section for an opinion piece.

W.3.2.a

Introduce a topic, group related information together, and include illustrations when they help the reader understand.

W.3.2.b

Develop a topic with facts, definitions, and details.

W.3.2.c

Use linking words and phrases such as also, another, and, more, and but to connect ideas within categories of information.

W.3.2.d

Write a concluding statement or section for an informative text.

W.3.3.a

Establish a situation, introduce a narrator or characters, and organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

W.3.3.b

Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop events or show how characters respond to situations.

W.3.3.c

Use time words and phrases to signal the order of events.

W.3.3.d

Give a narrative a sense of closure.

W.3.4

With adult help, produce writing whose development and organization suit the task and purpose.

W.3.5

With peer and adult help, strengthen writing by planning, revising, and editing.

W.3.7

Conduct a short research project that builds knowledge about a topic.

W.3.8

Recall information from experience or gather it from print and digital sources, take brief notes, and sort evidence into given categories.

W.3.10

Write routinely over both longer and shorter time frames for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Language

L.3.1.a

Explain what nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs do in general and in particular sentences.

L.3.1.b

Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

L.3.1.c

Use abstract nouns, such as childhood.

L.3.1.d

Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

L.3.1.e

Form and use the simple verb tenses, such as I walked, I walk, and I will walk.

L.3.1.f

Make subjects agree with their verbs and pronouns agree with their antecedents.

L.3.1.g

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between adjectives and adverbs depending on the word being described.

L.3.1.h

Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

L.3.1.i

Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

L.3.2.a

Capitalize the appropriate words in titles.

L.3.2.b

Use commas in addresses.

L.3.2.c

Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

L.3.2.d

Form and use possessives.

L.3.2.e

Spell high-frequency and other studied words conventionally, including when adding suffixes to base words, such as sitting, smiled, cries, and happiness.