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Third Grade Reading Worksheets and Printables

These third grade reading worksheets help make learning engaging for your third grader! Browse through and download our 3rd grade reading worksheets to help supplement your child's education.

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Habitats Word Search: Grassland Animals

In which habitat could you find an elephant, a zebra, and a giraffe? The grand grassland! Kids don't have to go far to find these animals, though: They can find them in the word search on this third grade science worksheet.

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How the Alphabet Was Made

Make reading time fun, with this classic short story by Rudyard Kipling. Then, complete a few comprehension activities on "How the Alphabet Was Made."

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Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

Using details to draw conclusions about a story is an important part of comprehension. Help your third grader practice this skill by writing endings to 5 brief stories.

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Descriptive Adjectives: Fantastic!

How often is a princess described as just a princess? Rarely! Instead, princesses are usually "beautiful" or "graceful." Kids liven up the sentences on this third grade writing worksheet by adding descriptive adjectives to the fairy tale nouns.

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Jamestown Colony

Sail back in time to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, with this fun, fact-filled worksheet.

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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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The Butterfly That Stamped

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

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Irregular Past-Tense Verbs: I Knew It!

The past-tense of "reach" is "reached," but the past-tense of "teach" is ... "taught"? These words can be confusing, and require practice. On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids change present-tense verbs to irregular past-tense verbs, then use the verbs in a crossword puzzle.

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The Beginnning of the Armadillos

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's whimsical story, "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer comprehension questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

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Reading for Understanding: Sugar and Spice

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

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