3rd grade Language and Vocabulary Printable Worksheets

Create your own crazy story with this fill-in-the-blank story! Your budding writer will practice parts of speech as he fills in missing parts of the story.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Want to get your child geared up for the next family camping trip? Let him search through these hidden camping-themed words.

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Your students will practice using sentence clues to identify the meaning of homographs.

Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Use this resource to assess your students’ mastery of using context clues to determine word meanings.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Children learn how to identify both regular and irregular comparative and superlative adjectives as they complete each of 20 sentences.

It may be cold outside but it's never too cold for learning! Your child will build her vocabulary as she searches for words related to winter.

This multiple meaning words worksheet uses context clues to help kids make sense of homonyms, or words with multiple meanings.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Challenge your child's vocabulary and spelling with a fun crossword puzzle full of 3rd grade terms.

There, their, and they're: They're tricky to many people! This worksheet explains the difference. Then, kids choose the right word to complete each sentence.

Brush up on some physics vocabulary with this energy word search!

Use this worksheet to practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a prefix is added to a base word.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

Your students will use this resource to analyze their vocabulary words and relate them to other ideas and concepts. It is a great graphic organizer for all content areas.

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Kids practice using the prefixes dis-, un-, and non- in this worksheet.