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.
Biome Buffy
Does your child have a passion for the environment? This worksheet is a perfect aid to practice her reading skills, and learn about different ecosystems.
Its or It's?
Even some grown-ups get confused when it comes to "its" vs. "it's." Be sure your child understands the difference. This third grade writing worksheet explains that "its" is a possessive pronoun, and "it's" is a contraction that means "it is." This worksheet reinforces an important spelling concept.
Word Play
Does your kid like to tinker with words? Here's a game she'll love. To find the answer to each clue, she'll need to change one letter in the word that was the answer to the previous clue. This third grade reading and writing worksheet helps kids with thinking, vocabulary, and spelling skills.
Past, Present, or Future Tense? 1
Past, present, or future? Kids identify the tense for each sentence on this third grade reading and writing worksheet. After that, they can get creative and write their own sentences in the past, present, and future tenses.
Suffixes: Part of the Job
Artist or arter? Magician or magicist? Kids completing this third grade reading and writing worksheet add the suffixes -er, -or, -ian, and -ist to words to form the names of jobs. Then they find those job names in a fun word search.
Synonyms are Fun
The sentences on this third grade reading worksheet are each missing a word. Kids read a highlighted word that's a clue about the missing word. Then they look in the word box for a synonym of the highlighted word, and write the synonym to complete the sentence.
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
Could you really pay for something with an arm and a leg? Of course not! Kids use context clues to figure out the meanings of the idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.
Scrambled Planet Names
Never heard of the planet Pirjute? That's because it's actually Jupiter, but the letters are all mixed up! Kids completing this third grade science worksheet unscramble the names of the eight planets in our solar system.
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.
Punctuation Nation: Practicing Commas
Does your little wordsmith need practice when it comes to comma placement? This worksheet asks your child to punctuate a letter with commas and periods.
