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!
- Plus Plan
How Does Heat Move? Experiment
Observe how heat moves in hot and cold water with an engaging How Does Heat Move? Experiment.
- Plus Plan
Westward Expansion Reading Comprehension Worksheet Pack
Enhance your students' close reading strategies, vocabulary, and writing skills with a Westward Expansion reading comprehension worksheet pack.
- Plus Plan
Coordinating Conjunctions Craft Activity
Encourage your students to get hands on with this highly visual representation of coordinating conjunctions and the role they play in linking two ideas in a sentence.
- Plus Plan
Animal Fact File Template Pack
Use an Animal Fact File Template to introduce your students to the informational researching and writing process.
- Plus Plan
Life Cycle of a Grasshopper Worksheet Pack
Explore the stages in a grasshopper's life with a printable Life Cycle of a Grasshopper Worksheet Pack.
- Plus Plan
Be a Team Player! Writing Prompt Task Cards
Spark meaningful writing about how to be a team player with these engaging writing prompts perfect for elementary students.
- Free Plan
Butterfly Life Cycle Diagram Poster Pack
Display the stages in a butterfly's life with a printable Butterfly Life Cycle Diagram Poster Pack.
- Plus Plan
Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack
Identify the stages in a butterfly's life with a fun printable from our Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack.
- Plus Plan
Sequence Words Worksheet Pack
Enhance your students' writing with this sequence words worksheet pack featuring 9 scaffolded activities that help young writers master sequencing events and ideas.
- Plus Plan
Advertisement Examples and Analysis Worksheets
Use these advertisement examples with accompanying analysis worksheets to teach your students about the purpose, structure and language features of product advertisements.
- Plus Plan
A House for Hermit Crab Activity Pack
Explore how an animal’s habitat meets its needs with an engaging ‘A House for Hermit Crab’ activity pack.
- Free Plan
Lab Safety Scenario Worksheets (3-5)
Think like scientists and improve Science Lab Safety Skills with printable lab safety scenario worksheets.
- Free Plan
Easter Egg Coloring Sheet Pack
Give your students an ‘egg-cellent’ brain break with a printable Easter Egg Coloring Sheet pack.
- Plus Plan
Spring Word Scramble Worksheets
Say hello to Spring and vocabulary development with differentiated Spring Word Scramble Worksheets.
- Free Plan
Winter Logic Puzzles
Engage critical thinking skills with these winter logic puzzles that challenge students to use reasoning and deduction to solve fun, seasonal mysteries.
- Free Plan
What Should My Teacher Be For Halloween? Writing Activity Pack
Have your students write to explain 'What Should My Teacher Be for Halloween?' with a printable differentiated Halloween writing activity pack.
- Plus Plan
Multiplication and Division Fact Families Teaching Slides
Introduce your students to multiplication and division fact families with this 36-slide teaching slide deck.
- Plus Plan
Football Word Search - Printable
Get ready for the big game with a differentiated Football word search for kids.
- Free Plan
Printable Snowflakes for Classroom Crafts
Use printable snowflakes to transform your classroom into a winter wonderland during the snowy season.
- Plus Plan
Character Archetypes Teaching Slides
Download this character archetypes slide deck to help your students identify and analyze common character types in literature.
- Plus Plan
Character Archetypes Booklet
Download this engaging 8-page character archetype mini book that helps students analyze a character from a book they have recently read.
- Plus Plan
Firefighter Word Search Puzzle
Explore firefighter-related vocabulary words with an engaging firefighter word search activity.
- Plus Plan
Stand Up, Sit Down Game - 'Sit Down If' Icebreaker
Have your students giggling on day 1 with this Stand Up, Sit Down Game as a classroom icebreaker.
- Plus Plan
5 Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer
Use this 5 paragraph essay graphic organizer to help your students correctly structure their expository writing.
- Free Plan
Making Connections Worksheet Set
Allow your students to record their connections to a particular text with this Making Connections Worksheet set.
- Plus Plan
What Animals Live in Social Groups? PowerPoint Presentation
Discover what animals live in social groups and why with an engaging interactive Animal Behavior PowerPoint.
- Plus Plan
Fossil Worksheet Pack
Dig into learning about fossils with a printable Fossil Worksheet pack for 3rd and 4th graders.
- Plus Plan
Division as Repeated Subtraction Worksheet Set
Share this division as repeated subtraction worksheet set with your students to teach division by building on subtraction concepts they are already familiar with.
- Plus Plan
Using Simple Machines - Worksheet
Download a set of simple machines worksheets to use in the classroom when learning about simple machines and how they can help use solve everyday problems.
- Plus Plan
Ye Olde Geometry Town Project
Build a charming medieval town with our Ye Olde Geometry Town project, designed to give your students engaging hands-on practice with multiple geometry and social studies standards.
- Plus Plan
Finding Fossils - Comprehension Worksheets
Use a Fossils Comprehension worksheet to teach your third graders about what fossils are, how they’re formed, and more!
- Plus Plan
Texas Fossils Guidebook for Kids - Mini Book
Grab a printable Texas Fossils Guidebook for kids to introduce your students to some of the most common Texas Fossils.