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Cursive Sentences - Practice
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3rd Grade
Topic
Cursive writing
Cursive Sentences - Practice
This cursive writing worksheet helps students develop their handwriting skills through engaging practice. It encourages proper letter formation and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace each sentence carefully, then write it neatly in the provided space.
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Cursive Passages - Sea Life
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Cursive writing
Cursive Passages - Sea Life
This cursive writing worksheet is wonderful for helping students improve their handwriting skills. It promotes cursive practice and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace the passage below, then write it in the space provided.
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Cursive Passages - Carnival
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Cursive writing
Cursive Passages - Carnival
This cursive writing worksheet is excellent for helping students improve their handwriting skills. It promotes cursive practice and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace the passage below, then write it in the space provided.
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Cursive Passages - Kites
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Grade
3rd Grade
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Cursive writing
Cursive Passages - Kites
This cursive writing worksheet helps students improve their handwriting skills and promotes cursive practice and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace the passage below, then write it in the space provided.
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Cursive Passages - Garden
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Grade
3rd Grade
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Cursive writing
Cursive Passages - Garden
This cursive writing worksheet helps students improve their handwriting skills. It promotes both cursive practice and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace the passage below, then write it in the space provided.
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Cursive Passages - Lost Hat
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Grade
3rd Grade
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Cursive writing
Cursive Passages - Lost Hat
This cursive writing worksheet helps students improve their handwriting skills, and promotes both cursive practice and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace the passage below, then write it in the space provided.
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Cursive Passages - Picnic
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Grade
3rd Grade
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Cursive writing
Cursive Passages - Picnic
This cursive writing worksheet helps students improve their handwriting skills, promoting both cursive practice and writing fluency. Worksheet instructions: Trace the passage below, then write it in the space provided.
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Story Elements: Character, setting & plot
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Reading Comprehension
Story Elements: Character, setting & plot
This reading comprehension worksheet helps students build critical thinking and reading skills by exploring key story elements, including characters, setting, and problem resolution. This activity guides students through a short story with thought-provoking questions, fostering a deeper understanding of narrative structure. Worksheet instructions: A parent or teacher should read the text to the student and then guide them in finding the correct answers.
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Reading Comprehension - Story elements
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3rd Grade
Topic
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension - Story elements
This reading comprehension worksheet helps students explore story elements like characters, setting, and problem resolution. After reading the short story, students answer questions to build critical thinking and reading skills. This activity encourages a deeper understanding of stories. Worksheet instructions: A parent or teacher should read the text to the student and then guide them in finding the correct answers.
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Break up compound sentences - Mosquito
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3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Break up compound sentences - Mosquito
In this simple and compound sentences worksheet, students need to rewrite compound sentences as two simple sentences. This worksheet highlights the connection between simple sentences (one independent clause) and compound sentences (two or more independent clauses). Worksheet instructions: Split the below compound sentences into two simple sentences.
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Sentence starters - Happy
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Sentence starters - Happy
This worksheet encourages students to express their creativity by adding their own endings to sentence starters. Worksheet instructions: Complete each of the following sentences.
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Sentence starters - Mountain
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Sentence starters - Mountain
This sentence starter worksheet encourages students to express their creativity by adding their own endings to sentence starters. Worksheet instructions: Complete each of the following sentences.
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Scrambled Sentences - Cheese
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Scrambled Sentences - Cheese
In this worksheet, students need to unscramble the words to create proper sentences. Worksheet instructions: Unscramble the words to make a sentence!
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Scrambled Sentences - Eggs
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3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Scrambled Sentences - Eggs
In this sentences worksheet, students need to unscramble the words to create proper sentences. Worksheet instructions: Unscramble the words to make a sentence!
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Sequencing - How Plants Grow
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Reading Comprehension
Sequencing - How Plants Grow
Sequencing means putting things in order, from first to last. Sequencing events properly helps the reader understand a text. In this comprehension worksheet, students read a short text, and place 5 events in their proper order. Worksheet instructions: Read about how plants grow, paying attention to the sequence of events, from first to last.
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Double negatives - VHS
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Double negatives - VHS
A double negative occurs when two negative words appear together in the same sentence. For example: “I can't go nowhere tonight.” Worksheet instructions: Circle the double negatives in the following sentences. Then, rewrite the sentences correctly.
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Run-on Sentences - Picnic
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3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Run-on Sentences - Picnic
A run-on sentence occurs when two complete thoughts are written together without proper punctuation. Worksheet instructions: Rewrite the following run-on sentences as two separate sentences.
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Sentence or fragment - Gecko
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3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Sentence or fragment - Gecko
A sentence expresses a complete thought that makes sense on its own. It has a subject (who or what the sentence is about) and a verb (the action or what the subject is doing). Example: The dog is playing. Worksheet instructions: Write whether each group of words is a sentence or a fragment.
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Fragments to full sentences - Crown
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3rd Grade
Topic
Sentences
Fragments to full sentences - Crown
A fragment occurs when a sentence is missing one of the key parts it needs to be complete. Worksheet instructions: Use phrases from the word bank to turn each fragment into a complete sentence.
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Compare and contrast - Tiny Ant
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3rd Grade
Topic
Reading Comprehension
Compare and contrast - Tiny Ant
When we compare - we tell how things are alike. When we contrast - we tell how things are different. Worksheet instructions: Read the two stories. As you read, think about how the stories are alike, and how they are different. Then, answer the questions that follow.
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Words with similar meanings - Chef
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Vocabulary
Words with similar meanings - Chef
Sentences often give us clues about the different meanings of the words within them. Worksheet instructions: Circle the word that is closest in meaning to the words in bold.
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Story punctuation - Stuffed Bear
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Punctuation
Story punctuation - Stuffed Bear
Punctuation is a very important part of any story we read: comma (,) period (.) question mark (?) exclamation mark (!) apostrophe (‘). Worksheet instructions: Insert punctuation to fix the story (answers may vary slightly).
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Story punctuation - School Day
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Punctuation
Story punctuation - School Day
Punctuation is an important part of any story we read: comma (,) period (.) question mark (?) exclamation mark (!) apostrophe (‘). Worksheet instructions: Insert punctuation to fix the story (answers may vary slightly).
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Capitalize days and holidays - Koi Fish
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Capitalization
Capitalize days and holidays - Koi Fish
Remember, the names of days, months and holidays are proper nouns. Proper nouns are always capitalized, no matter where they appear in a sentence. Worksheet instructions: Write the names of the days of the week, months, or holidays, beginning with a capital letter.
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Capitalize days and holidays - Fish Bowl
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Grade
3rd Grade
Topic
Capitalization
Capitalize days and holidays - Fish Bowl
The names of days, months and holidays are proper nouns. Proper nouns are always capitalized, no matter where they appear in a sentence. Worksheet instructions: Write the names of the days of the week, months, or holidays, beginning with a capital letter.
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