3rd grade Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Resources

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences will help students practice this key third grade skill. Try our free exercises to build knowledge and confidence.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Exercise

Parts of Speech

Workbook

Parts of Speech

Knowing your parts of speech is an important part of learning good writing skills. Learn the ins and outs of words with this packet that covers the eight different parts of speech.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Narrative Writing

Workbook

Narrative Writing

Prepare for a world of writing with this packet of exercises, tools and tips. Students learn a few ways to spice up writing, like sensory words, action verbs, supporting details, and point of view.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Plural Noun Practice

Lesson plan

Plural Noun Practice

This lesson gives young explorers a chance to find plural nouns around the classroom and use them to build sentences. It nourishes students' creative sides while helping them learn.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Compound Sentence Creations

Lesson plan

Compound Sentence Creations

When it comes to writing, simple is boring! Use this lesson to teach your students how to take their sentences from simple to compound by using coordinating conjunctions.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Writing More Complex Sentences

Lesson plan

Writing More Complex Sentences

Students will become sentence construction gurus as they learn to craft more sophisticated sentences. Specifically, young writers will use subordinating conjunctions to combine dependent and independent clauses to craft complex sentences.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 1

Exercise

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 1

Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with your third grader to help them succeed as they begin writing reports and essays.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Exercise

Great Grammar: Compound Sentences

Worksheet

Great Grammar: Compound Sentences

This compound sentences worksheet will get your child to review the concept. Try this compound sentences worksheet to help your child build grammar skills.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Adjectives to Describe a Hero

Worksheet

Adjectives to Describe a Hero

This adjective exercise will prepare kids for writing and reading nonfiction stories about real-life heroes.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Once Upon a Question Mark

Lesson plan

Once Upon a Question Mark

What's the question? In this lesson about question marks, students will learn how to write and identify questions, generate their own questions, and read with punctuation marks in mind.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Practicing Complex Sentences

Worksheet

Practicing Complex Sentences

Students can use this worksheet to review what a complex sentence is, and how to write one. Then, they will practice writing 10 complex sentences of their own!

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Expanding Sentences: Let’s Get Complex!

Worksheet

Expanding Sentences: Let’s Get Complex!

Use this resource to practice taking simple sentences and expanding them by adding subordinating conjunctions.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Get Crafty! Combining Sentences

Lesson plan

Get Crafty! Combining Sentences

Give your class the "write" stuff! In this lesson, your students will learn to master combining sentences using sentences with the same subjects or predicates.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Work on Writing: Run-On Sentences

Worksheet

Work on Writing: Run-On Sentences

Combat bad writing habits with this grammar worksheet. It teaches kids to identify run-on sentences and rewrite them correctly.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Identifying Sentences: At the Beach!

Worksheet

Identifying Sentences: At the Beach!

This multiple-choice sentence practice sheet gives kids a chance to show off their grammar knowledge by identifying different types of sentences.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Story Elements in Sentences

Worksheet

Story Elements in Sentences

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

American Heroes: Biography Writing

Workbook

American Heroes: Biography Writing

Everything a kid needs to read and write a biography. Learn about some inspirational Americans, try your hand at writing someone else's story, and consider what makes heroes so compelling.

3rd grade

Social studies

Workbook

Beginning, Middle, End

Worksheet

Beginning, Middle, End

This three-part series of writing prompts will reinforce story structure and creativity in your child's writing.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Work on Writing: Sentence Fragments

Worksheet

Work on Writing: Sentence Fragments

This worksheet will give your child the practice he needs to identify sentence fragments and rewrite them as complete sentences.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

The Period

Lesson plan

The Period

Familiarize your young scholars with declarative and imperative sentences using this simple English lesson. Students will love learning about periods through a series of sentence-writing exercises.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Sentence Combining Practice

Worksheet

Sentence Combining Practice

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Compound Sentence Practice

Worksheet

Compound Sentence Practice

What happens when you want to fit more than one idea into a sentence? Instead of writing two sentences, write a compound sentence. Ask your students to practice writing compound sentences with this worksheet.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Compound Sentences with Sentence Frames

Worksheet

Compound Sentences with Sentence Frames

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of writing compound sentences to show relationships between two independent clauses. Your students will write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Sentences 2

Guided Lesson

Sentences 2

Third grade writers will be tasked with writing longer and more complicated sentences. This guided lesson in understanding, constructing and punctuating sentences can support kids as they learn to build bigger and better sentences in their writing. Grammar instruction and practical examples were written by our curriculum experts, complete with a list of recommended building sentence worksheets for third graders.

3rd grade

Guided Lesson

Great Grammar: Compound Predicate

Worksheet

Great Grammar: Compound Predicate

Learning about compound predicates is easy with this straightforward grammar sheet.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

3rd grade Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Resources