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3rd Grade Writing Prompts & Composition Worksheets

Kids will get a good balance of free writing and academic lessons in these third grade composition worksheets. They'll build writing skills as they learn about adjectives, personification, and main ideas, then put their knowledge into practice in creative and expository writing prompts.

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Writing Organization

Put the Story Sequence in Order

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Letter Writing for Kids

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Identify Supporting Details

Every main idea needs good supporting details! Help your child learn to recognize paragraph and story organization with this exercise.

Story Sequencing: Roller Skating

Story sequencing is a fun and easy way for third graders to practice reading comprehension by putting the sentences of the story in order.

Write a Descriptive Paragraph

Help your budding writer learn to "show, not tell" with this creative writing exercise.

Learn more about to topic sentence and the important job it has to do in this worksheet.

Paragraph Structure

This worksheet introduces kids to paragraph structure, and shows how to give a paragraph a beginning, middle and end.

Ladder Graphic Organizer

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Cut and Paste: Sequencing Story Events

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Ice Cream Graphic Organizer

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer

Beginning readers can practice their comprehension skills by using this graphic organizer to diagram the plot of a story or book.

How to Write a Review

Help your student warm up to opinion writing by asking him to write a review.

Hamburger Graphic Organizer

Work up an appetite for comprehension with this hamburger graphic organizer.

Florida Skunk Ape

Read more about the Florida Skunk Ape and one of the most famous encounter stories. Then, use your imagination to write a letter about the encounter.

Writing Prompt: Change

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

The Stories of Summer

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

What's the Reason?

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

Devices in the Classroom

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

Talking Points: School Lunches

Kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons in this worksheet.

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