3rd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Exercises

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.

Expertly split syllables with this phonics activity! A strong understanding of syllabication patterns can improve students’ ability to break apart and decode unfamiliar words. 

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Students will appreciate the ability to write some of their most commonly used words after working through this exercise on contractions.

Open up a whole world of new words to your students with this exercise on multi syllable words.

Give students an introduction to the most simple of verbs with this exercise on the present tense.

There are silent letters lurking in every word, and this exercise will help students learning how to spell by shining a spotlight on them.

Students will have better reading comprehension skills after completing this exercise that shows them how to pick out contextual clues.

This exercise will help students expand their vocabulary by learning how to read multi syllable words.

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

This exercise applies students’ understanding of adjectives to learning how to use adverbs, words that modify actions.

Eliminate a common error in speaking and writing with this exercise that teaches pronoun and verb agreement.

Help students identify whether or not a sentence is complete with these exercises that give helpful hints when they get stuck!

Have your fourth grader test their knowledge of subjects and predicates with these exercises that ask them to identify whether a sentence is a fragment, and what is missing.

Practice makes perfect, and these exercises that focus on contractions with apostrophes give your student the ability to work independently while still providing helpful hints when needed.

English is full of exceptions, and this exercise gives students an introduction to some of the many irregular verbs.

Improve your child's writing skills by helping them understand and become comfortable with reflexive pronouns. Give them the ability to tell the stories they want to tell with these exercises that will put them at the top of their class.

This exercise provides ground rules for forming plurals, as well as common irregular words students should learn.

Teach your third grader how to make nouns plural so they can fully utilize their writing potential with these multiple choice exercises.

Capitalization of proper nouns is imperative for proper writing form. Help your third grader hone their skills with these exercises.

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

Teach students the importance of abstract nouns, or things you can't actually see or touch, and how to incorporate them into writing to demonstrate the correct tone.

Homophones can sometimes confuse younger students, but this exercise will teach them how to differentiate between similar words.

By fifth grade, students are starting to use all of the parts of speech in their writing. Make sure they do so correctly with these exercises that solidify the place of these words in sentences.

This example-filled exercise will help students develop a fuller understanding of context from clues embedded in texts.

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.

Help students spice up their statements with action verbs that bring color to each sentence.

Help your third graders get ahead with these exercises that allow them to practice matching singular and plural subjects and verbs.

This exercise will teach students learn how to pronounce the unique sounds of words containing double syllables.

With the basics established, students will enjoy making use of the knowledge of common prefixes shared in this exercise.