3rd Grade Writing Strategies Worksheets

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

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 resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

In this grammar and mechanics worksheet, children will review guidelines for using quotation marks, along with examples.

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

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

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

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!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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.