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Third Grade Essay Writing Worksheets and Printables

Essays become standard as elementary school progresses. Third grade essay writing worksheets help kids overcome writer’s block and encourage teamwork and skill-building instead. Your child will create opinion-based pieces, elaborate on internal feelings, and learn to organize their thoughts as they write. Third grade essay writing worksheets are an excellent tool for working at home with your child or as a teaching aid.

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3rd grade

Essay Writing

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Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

Use this resource to help your students get organized. The labeled sections will guide them to follow the proper informative essay structure.

3rd grade

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Favorite Food Opinion Writing

Favorite Food Opinion Writing

Let your students work up an appetite for writing with this opinion writing prompt. First students will consider their favorite food while they fill in the structured pre-writing planner, then they can use the second page to write their opinion essay.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Thanksgiving Writing Ideas

Thanksgiving Writing Ideas

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Opinion Writing Check-Up

Opinion Writing Check-Up

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

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Informational Writing Check-Up

Informational Writing Check-Up

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

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Narrative Story Organizer

Narrative Story Organizer

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

2nd grade

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Narrative Writing Check-Up

Narrative Writing Check-Up

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

3rd grade

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Organizing My Opinion

Organizing My Opinion

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

4th grade

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Narrative Writing Learning Check

Narrative Writing Learning Check

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

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Hooks in Informational Writing

Hooks in Informational Writing

Use this resource with your students to practice writing a variety of hooks.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Informational Writing Check-In

Informational Writing Check-In

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Elaborating on Feelings

Elaborating on Feelings

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

3rd grade

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Color Code the Paragraph

Color Code the Paragraph

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

3rd grade

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Informational Writing Learning Check

Informational Writing Learning Check

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Story Map A Personal Narrative

Story Map A Personal Narrative

Inspire your students to write about a personal narrative about a conflict in their own lives. This worksheet offers space to brainstorm about conflict, challenges, and feelings.

3rd grade

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Narrative Writing Check-In

Narrative Writing Check-In

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

3rd grade

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Opinion Writing Learning Check

Opinion Writing Learning Check

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Informational Writing: Strong Support

Informational Writing: Strong Support

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about a specific topic.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

Use this exercise with your students to practice linking ideas within their writing to make strong connections.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Talking Points: School Lunches

Talking Points: School Lunches

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

3rd grade

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Informational Outlines 1

Informational Outlines 1

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

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Informational Outlines 2

Informational Outlines 2

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

3rd grade

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Devices in the Classroom

Devices in the Classroom

Kids practice argument writing by taking a position on devices in the classroom.

3rd grade

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Informational Outlines 3

Informational Outlines 3

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

3rd grade

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What's the Reason?

What's the Reason?

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

3rd grade

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