Grade 3 ELA Worksheets

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• Organize research findings so they match a question and are easy to understand.
• Use clear, simple sentences to present observations and facts.
• Add citations by telling what source supports a statement.

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• Identify common text features in an informational text (headings, captions, labels, bold words, and charts).
• Explain how a text feature helps the reader understand the main idea or specific details.
• Use information from text features to answer questions about what the text means.

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• I can identify a paragraph’s main idea and topic sentence.
• I can explain how supporting sentences match the topic sentence.
• I can revise a paragraph by removing unrelated details.+ Show more

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• Write complete sentences that include key planning ideas and concrete details.
• Add observed events, facts, or brief explanations to make writing clearer for readers.
• Maintain a consistent point of view and time to improve readability.

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• Identify recognizable features of common writing forms (letter, short report, narrative).
• Choose a writing form that matches a writer’s purpose and audience.
• Use correct structure and language expectations for the chosen form, including clear beginnings and endings.

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• I can listen carefully to find key details in a short spoken or read-aloud message.
• I can respond politely by turning to the speaker and using what I heard to guide my answers.
• I can confirm or clarify ideas when something is confusing by asking respectful questions.

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• Use complete sentences to explain an idea clearly.
• Speak at a steady pace and at a volume that fits the audience.
• Include a main point and use transitions to connect ideas.

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• I can explain why citations help readers trust information.
• I can match a citation to a specific statement, such as a definition or a statistic.
• I can tell the difference between original wording and borrowed information while keeping my writing clear.+ Show more

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• Identify the difference between a broad question and a focused inquiry question
• Write inquiry questions that connect to a topic and seek cause, effect, or description
• Use inquiry questions to guide what information to look for in a text or investigation

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• Use shared speaking and listening norms during peer discussions.
• Ask and answer questions with relevant details.
• Build on classmates’ ideas by paraphrasing or referencing what was said.+ Show more

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• I can identify a writer’s task and purpose from a prompt.
• I can choose details and organization that fit whether I am informing, persuading, or telling a story.
• I can explain how genre features (claim-and-reason, facts, or ordered events) help my writing meet the goal.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea and supporting details in a short media or visual text.
• Track the sequence of events across a brief message.
• Explain how visuals (images, captions, diagrams, gestures, and on-screen words) help the meaning.+ Show more

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• Identify similes and metaphors in grade-appropriate text.
• Explain how personification gives human traits to nonhuman things.
• Use figurative language images to understand mood, character description, and author intent.

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• Identify the parts of procedural writing, including ordered steps and helpful transitions.
• Use action verbs and clear sequence words (first, next, then, last) to organize steps.
• Recognize safety notes or warnings that help readers do a task correctly.

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• Use academic vocabulary words to understand what a passage is explaining.
• Identify whether a text gives a definition, example, or restatement of a vocabulary word.
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of academic terms in informational text.

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• Select dependable research sources for a question.
• Use note details to support an idea with evidence.
• Tell the difference between background information and evidence that answers the question.

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• Identify the author’s purpose (inform, explain, entertain, or persuade) in a short text.
• Use details from a passage to tell whether a statement is fact or opinion.
• Match key information to the purpose and explain how the purpose shapes the details.

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• Identify the purpose of a poster, diagram, or photo caption (to inform, persuade, describe, or explain).
• Use title cues, emphasized visuals, and word choice to determine what a representation is trying to communicate.
• Locate key details and supporting information that strengthen the intended message.

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• I can identify a main idea from information in a short viewing text.
• I can support the main idea with specific details from what I watched or listened to.
• I can connect details to discussion questions and explain my thinking in a clear spoken-style response.+ Show more

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• Identify causes and effects in informational and narrative text
• Use clue words like because, so, and therefore to explain relationships
• Distinguish an event from the reason or result connected to it+ Show more

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• Explain how design choices help a representation match its purpose
• Identify key details using labels, captions, arrangement, and consistent symbols
• Revise a simple graphic by improving reading order and visual emphasis

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• Identify context clues that explain the meaning of an unfamiliar word
• Use nearby details, examples, or restatements to figure out what a word means
• Explain how the surrounding sentence or paragraph supports a meaning choice

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• Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
• Capitalize common proper nouns, including names of people and places.
• Use correct spelling for commonly misspelled grade-level words and patterns.+ Show more

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• Use precise adjectives and strong verbs to make writing clearer and more interesting.
• Use similes to help readers visualize comparisons (like or as).
• Add purposeful details that support mood, character traits, setting, or factual information.+ Show more

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• Revise writing to make the main idea clearer by adding missing details that support it
• Revise writing to remove extra details that do not help the purpose
• Use stronger sentence order and clearer connections so ideas flow smoothly

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• Identify the main idea of a paragraph by focusing on what the author emphasizes.
• Use supporting details (reasons, examples, and facts) to explain the main idea.
• Distinguish between main idea and details that support it.

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• Identify words with multiple meanings and choose the meaning that fits the sentence.
• Use surrounding words and ideas to understand the correct word sense.
• Explain how sentence purpose and context help readers interpret multiple meanings.

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• Use end punctuation to complete statements and questions.
• Edit sentences for correct capitalization and spelling.
• Fix sentence-level errors to improve readability and meaning.

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• I can revise writing by checking that the main idea matches supporting details.
• I can improve clarity by adding transitions and fixing unclear sentences.
• I can reorder sentences or change word choice so my message is more direct.+ Show more

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• Explain how subject-verb agreement works by matching singular subjects with singular verbs and plural subjects with plural verbs.
• Use correct verb forms even when extra words come between the subject and the verb (such as along with or near).
• Choose correct third-person singular verbs with common singular pronouns and indefinite subjects.

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• Use vowel patterns and syllable boundaries to spell grade-appropriate words more accurately.
• Apply spelling rules for contractions and possessives (apostrophes).
• Explain how spelling patterns connect spoken language and written words.

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• Use context clues to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
• Identify how nearby details, contrasts, cause-and-effect, and restatements help define a word.
• Explain the intended meaning of a word and connect it to the main idea.

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• Identify multiple meaning words and explain how their meaning changes with context
• Use sentence clues to determine whether a word refers to an action, an object, or an idea
• Choose the correct meaning of a multiple meaning word for speaking and writing

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• Identify complete sentences by finding the subject and the predicate
• Write sentences with correct word order and appropriate capitalization and punctuation
• Distinguish sentence fragments and run-on sentences+ Show more

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• Identify common prefixes (un-, re-, dis-) and explain how they change word meaning.
• Identify common suffixes (-ful, -less, -er, -est) and use them to infer meanings.
• Break unfamiliar words into prefix/base word/suffix to understand the whole word logically.

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• Explain how an informative text conclusion summarizes the most important facts and definitions.
• Write a concluding statement that reminds readers of the main idea without adding new unrelated information.
• Use transition words to connect the conclusion to the body of facts.

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• Identify and use narrative sequence words to show the order of events in a story
• Explain how setting details and character actions connect to the plot
• Use dialogue to reveal character thoughts, feelings, or actions while keeping the story coherent

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• Explain how context helps refine the meaning of a word across different texts
• Compare how the same term is used in two texts to decide whether the meaning stays the same or changes
• Use evidence from definitions, examples, and descriptions to support word-meaning choices

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• Use common prefixes and suffixes to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words
• Identify a base word and explain how word parts change or support meaning
• Apply word-part clues from context to understand words in a reading passage

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• Identify characters and their roles in a story (people, animals, or other beings).
• Describe the setting (where and when) and explain how it affects the mood or meaning.
• Explain key events and how they cause changes from beginning to end.

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• Identify how text features (headings, subheadings, captions, bold terms, diagrams, and glossary entries) help readers locate key information in informational texts.
• Use a table of contents, index, and (if available) a search function to find answers to specific questions.
• Verify that the information you find matches your information need by rereading the surrounding text.

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• Explain how guided reporting uses notes to stay focused on a topic
• Write complete sentences and use transitions to organize a report
• Select relevant facts and details that support the main idea+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of a spoken presentation or text by determining what it is mostly about.
• Use details (examples, reasons, facts) to explain how they support the main idea.
• Explain relationships between ideas to make accurate, evidence-based responses.

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• Identify an opinion claim and explain how reasons support the claim
• Use relevant facts and clear explanations to connect reasons to an opinion
• Write a concluding statement that restates the main idea

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• Use surrounding sentences (context clues) to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary words.
• Identify common context clue types such as examples, comparisons, and restatements.
• Choose the correct meaning of a word when it has more than one definition.

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• Explain how a cause and its effect connect using informational signal words.
• Identify signal words such as because, so, therefore, and as a result in a short text.
• Write cause-and-effect statements that link an action to an outcome.

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• Use context clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word in a sentence.
• Identify definition clues, explanation clues, and descriptive clues in informational and literary text.
• Use pronouns and reference words (he, she, they, this, that) to determine what a text is pointing to.

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• Identify how a character’s actions change in response to events and challenges.
• Explain character change using evidence from key moments in a story.
• Describe what motivates a character before and after a turning point.