Orange Shirt Day worksheets for Grade 3 Holiday lessons introduce students to Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation through age-appropriate questions about remembrance, respect, inclusion, hope, and resilience.

What Students Explore

Students examine why people wear orange shirts to honour residential school survivors and recognize the past. They also explain how remembering history can help communities build respect and inclusion, while identifying key messages connected to remembrance, hope, and resilience.

What Students Practise

The worksheet combines multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, an essay response, and a Did You Know section. This gives students opportunities to recall key ideas, read for meaning, respond in their own words, and reflect through written work.

What You Receive

• ✔️ Student worksheet focused on Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• ✔️ Answer Key PDF for checking student responses
• ✔️ Teacher Guide included in the Answer Key PDF
• ✔️ Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes for teacher support

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 3 social studies holiday activity as a focused September lesson, independent practice, a guided classroom discussion, or written reflection. The discussion questions and teaching tips in the Teacher Guide can support thoughtful classroom conversations before or after students complete the worksheet.

The resource provides a structured way to introduce Orange Shirt Day and Truth and Reconciliation while keeping the focus on remembering history, honouring residential school survivors, and building respectful, inclusive communities.