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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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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.

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.

Identify Supporting Details

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

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.

Write a Descriptive Paragraph

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

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.

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

Persuasive Paragraph

Give your writing some structure with this persuasive paragraph worksheet.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

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

Important Supporting Details: Helen Keller

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Paragraph Structure

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

Opinion Paragraphs

Let your voice be heard! Prepare students for essay writing with these fun prompts that encourage them to express their opinions.

Ladder Graphic Organizer

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

Hooks in Informational Writing

Use this resource with your students to practice writing a variety of hooks.

Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

Use this exercise with your students to practice linking ideas within their writing to make strong connections.

Important Supporting Details: Cherokee

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

A New Paragraph Narrative

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

Getting Ready for the Day: Paragraph Writing

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

Opinion Writing Check-In

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Letter Writing Match-Up

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

Hamburger Graphic Organizer

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

Construct a Friendly Letter

With this worksheet, friendly letters will be under construction!

Talking Points: School Lunches

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

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.

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