3rd Grade Teaching Resources
Explore free worksheets for 3rd graders, 3rd-grade math worksheets, spelling words, games and so much more! This collection of printable and digital teacher resources was created by elementary school teachers for teachers just like you.
You'll find thousands of 3rd-grade activities aligned with Common Core ELA and math standards, as well as state-level guidelines.
Best of all? Each resource in this collection has been rigorously reviewed by the expert educators on our team to ensure it's ready for your classroom, your lesson plans and your students!
Our 3rd Grade Teaching Resources
The third-grade worksheets, activities, games, instructional slide decks, and more have been created and designed to enable students to successfully transition into the middle years of their elementary school education. Each resource design features engaging layouts, grade-level appropriate text, appealing images, and interactive elements that captivate young minds.
You'll find printable worksheets, digital downloads, and more for the third-grade curriculum. Develop your students’ math skills like patterns and places value, number operations, problem-solving, and reasoning across 3 content strands. Explore English language arts with immersive resources for listening to, reading, and interpreting a diverse range of text types.
Download these resources plus thousands of science, art, social studies, and more activities below!
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Adjectives Worksheet
Practice identifying and writing adjectives in sentences with this 1-page worksheet.
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Curious Creature Book Review Template
Create a curious creature-themed book review during Halloween or any time!
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Overused Adjectives
Banish overused adjectives with a handy adjective-synonym word wheel!
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Text Structures Slide Deck
An editable text structure instructional slide deck to use when teaching text structures to your students.
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The Wacky Professor's Treasure - Mini Escape Room Activity
A mini escape room activity that allows students to complete grammar tasks, while working together to solve a riddle!
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Comical Chronicle 3rd Grade Part of Speech Worksheets
Get your 3rd graders excited about parts of speech with this worksheet filled with 10 ad-lib style stories.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Contractions
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with contractions.
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Alphabetical Order Scoot
Put words in alphabetical order with this 24-card movement activity for your whole class or small group.
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Readers Theater – Play Writing Template
A template for students to use when writing their own Readers Theater script.
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Sign Language Alphabet Poster
Display this poster in your classroom as a reminder of how to represent the letters of the alphabet when spelling words in ASL (American Sign Language).
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Biography Research Graphic Organizer
Provide students with this biography research graphic organizer to help them gather key life details and take organized notes for writing a well-structured biography.
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Parts of Speech Flip Book
A flip book to use when learning about parts of speech.
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The Three Little Pigs and Their Article Mess - Worksheet
A reading exercise of the classic story of The Three Little Pigs with incorrect articles students need to fix.
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Biography Cube
Research and create an interactive biography for a historical figure.
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Types of Verbs Worksheet
A worksheet that can be used to practice or assess students' knowledge of various types of verbs.
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Book Character Profile - Stage and Curtains
A fun character profile worksheet set on a theater stage.
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Main Clauses and Subordinate Clauses Poster
A poster explaining main clauses and subordinate clauses.
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Onomatopoeia Poster
A poster providing a definition and examples of onomatopoeia.
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Book Report Pennant Banner Template
Share your students' favorite books with a printable book review template in the shape of bunting.
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Grammar Toss Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their knowledge of words and parts of speech.
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Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Describe the most notable mental and moral qualities of a real or fictional person.
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Word Morph Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their phonetic knowledge.
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Roll and Write – Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Practice writing simple, compound, and complex sentences with our Roll and Write activity.
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Fact or Opinion? - Activity Cards
A set of 18 activity cards to practice distinguishing between fact and opinion statements.
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Design Your Own Book Cover Worksheet
Design a new book cover and summarise a book using this one-page, printable template.
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Fact and Opinion Graphic Organizer
Use this fact and opinion graphic organizer to get your students writing facts and opinions for a variety of topics.
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Text Features Worksheet
Download this nonfiction text features worksheet so students can practice locating different types of text features found in a nonfiction text.
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Sequence Persuasive Text Examples – Cut and Paste Worksheets
Use this example persuasive text pack to teach your students about sequencing arguments in a logical order.
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Marine Animals Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 12 marine animal themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Detective Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Suffix Worksheet: -ty and -ity
Practice using the suffixes -ty and -ity with a printable suffix worksheet.
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Suffix Worksheet: -able
Transform your students’ vocabulary skills with our skill-building suffix worksheet, featuring the powerful “-able” suffix