3rd Grade Informational and Expository Writing Resources

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Share all about yourself with this getting-to-know-you writing activity!

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Describe and draw mom in this fill-in-the-blank Mother's Day worksheet!

Get ready for the next big snowstorm with a plan to stay cozy, safe, and happy!

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Describe and draw dad in this fill-in-the-blank Father's Day worksheet!

Super powers and saving the world will make any child want to write! Your third grader will learn about adding supporting details to their main idea.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

In this exercise your students will color code the key components of an example informative paragraph.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this worksheet.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.