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.

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

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.

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

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

This playful template includes space to write the definition of a vocabulary word, along with synonyms, antonyms, and an illustration.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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