3rd grade Nonfiction Writing Printable Worksheets

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.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

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

Young writers practice crafting thoughtful, compelling paragraphs with this persuasive writing worksheet.

In this activity, students will consider the key features of a narrative, such as plot, setting, rising action, and characters.

Children are introduced to four inspiring members of the civil rights movement in this engaging social studies worksheet.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Kids practice narrative writing with this personal prompt.

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.

The Biography Research graphic organizer is a tool for students to use as they are researching a specific person.

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Invite children to get to know their home state a little better with this series of questions and prompts.

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

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

Help your child learn to navigate narrative poetry, then write their own poem, in this super-fun narrative poetry worksheet.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children use a watermelon graphic organizer to craft a personal narrative with this fun template!

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Encourage learners to engage in research by offering them this Research Graphic Organizer to help guide their explorations and record their findings.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.