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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Simile and Metaphor Self-Portrait Worksheet
Teach students about similes and metaphors by asking them to describe... themselves!
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Writing Procedural Texts Teaching Slides
Use this procedural writing PowerPoint to teach your students about the purpose, structural elements and language features of procedure texts.
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4-Digit Place Value - Assessment
Assess your students' knowledge of place value to the thousands place with this open-ended worksheet.
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Emoji Themed Self-Assessment Desk Cards
Print these emoji themed self-assessment cards for students to reflect on their learning and display on their desk to indicate the level of teacher support they need.
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Making Connections to Text Teaching Slides
Teach the reading comprehension skill of making connections to text with this ready-to-use, age-appropriate teaching presentation for 3rd and 4th grade students.
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Flip, Draw, Expand! - Place Value Worksheet (4-Digit Numbers)
Build and expand 4-digit numbers using base-10 blocks to strengthen place value skills.
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Declaration of Independence - Comprehension Task
A comprehension task that encourages students to reflect on specific quotes from the Declaration of Independence.
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Guided Writing Groups - Progress Tracker
Track student progress during guided writing sessions with this template.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies Interactive Activity
Use this interactive quiz to review key reading comprehension skills with your students.
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Simple Dotted Line Name Tags
A set of ink-friendly desk name tags.
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Two Stars and a Wish Poster and Feedback Slips
Reinforce giving and receiving feedback in your classroom with this poster and set of feedback cards.
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Skip Counting by 4s Dominoes
A set of dominoes to use in the classroom when learning to skip count by 4.
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Newspaper Themed - Book Report Template and Poster
A fun newspaper themed poster with 3 book report templates to use when responding to literature.
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Inference vs Prediction Poster
Teach inference vs prediction with this engaging one-page poster that helps students understand how to use clues and prior knowledge to think more deeply about texts.
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Narrative Criteria Checklist Pack
Use this narrative criteria checklist pack when teaching your students how to edit their narrative writing.
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Which Force Is That? Worksheet
Use this forces worksheet to teach your 3rd grade students about the common forces of friction, buoyancy and gravity.
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Hundreds Chart - Black and White Version
A black and white hundreds chart that can be used in a variety of ways.
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Figurative Language Anchor Charts
Display the types of figurative language with a set of printable figurative language anchor chars.
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Advertisement Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about advertisements, including an annotated example.
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Snakes and Ladders Game Board Template
Create a fun activity for any subject area with this black-and-white board game template.
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Wetland Word Wall Vocabulary
A set of wetland-related vocabulary word wall cards.
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Push and Pull Sorting Worksheet
Use this push and pull sorting worksheet when exploring forces and motion with your 3rd grade students.
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Write a Cinquain Poem Worksheet
Set your students up for success when writing a cinquain poem with this set of scaffolded, easy-to-follow worksheets.
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Funky Snowman Craft Template
A fun winter craft activity for kids using a snowman template with accessories.
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Severe Weather STEM - Build a Storm Shelter Project
Design a storm shelter to protect against wind and rain with a hands-on Weather Stem Challenge.
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Schwa Worksheets
Download these schwa worksheets, designed to help students recognize, read, spell and analyze words containing the tricky schwa sound.
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Charging Safety Reading Comprehension Worksheet Pack (3-4)
Download a Charging Safety Reading Comprehension Worksheet Pack to build reading skills and promote safe battery charging during Fire Prevention Week.
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Be a Drug Free Hero! Trading Card Template
Inspire your students to 'Be a Hero and Stay Drug-Free' with a printable Superhero Trading Card Template.
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2027 Goal Setting Worksheet
Inspire your students to reflect and set goals for the new year with a Goal Setting worksheet.
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Charging Safety Scenario Worksheet
Teach your students how to stay safe when charging electronic devices with a printable Charging Safety Scenario Worksheet.
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Charge Into Fire Safety! Safe Charging Bookmarks
Inspire your readers and remind them of safe charging practices with our printable ‘Charge Into Fire Safety’ Safe Charging Bookmarks.
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Multiples of 10 — Fact Fluency Pack
Master multiples of 10 with this engaging worksheet pack, created to help teachers reinforce multiplication skills through meaningful and varied practice activities.