Search Printable 3rd Grade Reading Literature Language and Vocabulary Worksheets

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.

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.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Use this worksheet to teach your students how to explain the meaning of literal and nonliteral language. Don’t forget the context clues!

After reading the "My Vacation" series, use this worksheet to discover what you learned.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.

Use this resource to review important vocabulary terms in the genre of fiction.

Help your third grader with reading comprehension in this fun activity page on Rudyard Kipling's charming story, "The Elephant's Child."

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Children will read a relatable story about a disappearing word, then practice sleuthing out the meanings of a few words on their own.

In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.

Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.

In the third installment of this narrative series, the family finally reaches their destination.

Pick one thing from each of the "My Vacation series," then draw a picture to show what is happening.

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

When your students come across a new or important word, use this worksheet to help them gain a better understanding of the word.

Find some words from My Vacation (Part Three) that have more than one meaning. Look at the way the word is used to figure out what it means.