3rd Grade Teaching Resources
Explore free worksheets for 3rd graders, 3rd-grade math worksheets, spelling words, games and so much more! This collection of printable and digital teacher resources was created by elementary school teachers for teachers just like you.
You'll find thousands of 3rd-grade activities aligned with Common Core ELA and math standards, as well as state-level guidelines.
Best of all? Each resource in this collection has been rigorously reviewed by the expert educators on our team to ensure it's ready for your classroom, your lesson plans and your students!
Our 3rd Grade Teaching Resources
The third-grade worksheets, activities, games, instructional slide decks, and more have been created and designed to enable students to successfully transition into the middle years of their elementary school education. Each resource design features engaging layouts, grade-level appropriate text, appealing images, and interactive elements that captivate young minds.
You'll find printable worksheets, digital downloads, and more for the third-grade curriculum. Develop your students’ math skills like patterns and places value, number operations, problem-solving, and reasoning across 3 content strands. Explore English language arts with immersive resources for listening to, reading, and interpreting a diverse range of text types.
Download these resources plus thousands of science, art, social studies, and more activities below!
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If I Were President ...
A Presidents' Day writing activity.
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Memorial Day Art Activity
Use this elementary school art activity in the classroom around Memorial Day or when learning about the military.
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The Wacky Professor's Treasure - Mini Escape Room Activity
A mini escape room activity that allows students to complete grammar tasks, while working together to solve a riddle!
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Design-a-Currency
An activity for students to design a coin and paper bill.
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Growth Mindset Dice Game
Download a growth mindset dice game where students use "yet" strategies to solve a problem.
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Multiplication Match-Up Puzzles
A match-up activity to assist students in understanding multiplication word problems.
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School Year Scoop
Reflect on the school year with this end-of-year template for students.
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Funky Alpaca Craft Template
Teach about Zentangle art patterns with a fun (an funky) printable alpaca template for teachers.
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Compound Word Matching Game
Combine words to make compound words with a fun, printable Compound word game.
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Readers Theater – Play Writing Template
A template for students to use when writing their own Readers Theater script.
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Mind Map Template – Brain
A printable mind map template for students to use when gathering thoughts and ideas.
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Mini-Mystery – Who Drank the Teacher's Coffee?
A fun, logic-based activity where students read clues to solve the mystery.
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A Special Kind of Love – Mother's Day Template
Print this teacher-created inclusive Mother's Day template for students to write about the love they feel for a mother figure in their lives.
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Complex Dot-to-dot – Skip Counting by Fives (Turtle) – Worksheet
A complex dot-to-dot where students demonstrate skip counting by fives.
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Greetings - Spanish Language Poster
A poster to use in the classroom when teaching common greetings in Spanish.
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Number Talks - Perimeter and Area Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 28 task cards.
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Author's Purpose SORT IT!
Analyze 24 text examples and determine which of the 5 purposes of writing each of the sorting cards belongs to.
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Force and Motion Experiment – Throwing, Dropping, Bouncing, Rolling
Use this hands-on force and motion experiment when teaching your students about how forces influence the movement of objects.
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Biography Timeline Template
Use this multipurpose timeline template for a variety of assignments, projects, and more!
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Preposition Monkey Business - Worksheet
A worksheet which includes an image prompt for students to make creative sentences about prepositions.
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The Election Process – Classroom Poster
A poster to display in the classroom when teaching about the election process and voting.
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Past, Present, and Future Simple Tense Verbs Worksheet
Practice identifying past, present, and future tense verbs with this ad-lib style worksheet.
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Action, Helping, and Linking Verbs Exit Ticket
Quickly assess your students' understanding of action, helping, and linking verbs with this exit ticket template.
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Disappearing Ice Cream Sundae (Hangman Alternative)
An interactive, kid-friendly alternative to hangman.
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Memory Matcher PowerPoint – 3D Shapes
Recognize and recall the names of some of the most common 3D objects with a digital memory game!
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Color Me Carefully – Geometric Animals
Hone in on your students' speaking and listening skills with this barrier activity.
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Concrete Poem Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of a concrete poem (or shape poem).
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2-D Shape Dominoes
A set of dominoes to help students with their understanding of 2-D shapes.
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'I Have a Dream' Mobile
Celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with this ‘I Have a Dream’ craft.
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Fishing to Know You
Get to know your new class at the beginning of the year with this Fishing to Know You activity.
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Nonfiction Text Features: Match It Up!
Download this nonfiction text features game to teach elementary school students about the common text features of informational texts.
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Verb Tenses Quiz
Assess your students' knowledge of verb tenses with this 5-question quiz.