Develop students’ skill at applying prefixes and suffixes with this exercise that demonstrates how compound words are formed.

Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with your students to help them succeed as they begin writing reports and essays.

After students complete this simple exercise they will better understand how to put compound words together.

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences will help students practice this key third grade skill. Try our free exercises to build knowledge and confidence.

Teach students to write using relative spaces with these exercises that use prepositions to describe one noun in relation to another.

Teach your third grader how to write two-thought sentences with these exercises that use conjunctions to merge shorter sentences into one.

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.

After students complete this simple and clear exercise from Education.com, they will know how to how to abbreviate correctly.

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.

Homophones can sometimes confuse younger students, but this exercise will teach them how to differentiate between similar words.

Teach your third grader about articles used in sentences and when to be specific, or less so, with these exercises that have them identify and practice individually.

Along with understanding the root of words, this exercise will help students learn common suffixes tacked onto different words.

The punctuation mark with which you end a sentence can change the tone of your statement completely. Teach your third grader how to identify these different tones and their appropriate uses with these exercises made just for them.

Students will be able to add a layer of complexity to their verbiage with this exercise that introduces helping verbs.

English is full of exceptions, and this exercise gives students an introduction to some of the many irregular verbs.

Educate your students on the importance of possessive pronouns early on to help them develop masterful reading and writing skills. These exercises, developed for third graders, will do just that and provide them with helpful hints when needed.

Teach your third grader about sentence phrasing and prepositions with these exercises that allow them to practice individually with helpful hints.

Help your students' storytelling abilities with these exercises that improve their knowledge of transition words and have them use context clues to answer questions.

Punctuating dialogue is a skill best learned early, and these exercises are tailored specifically for your third grader to learn independently.

Clear and concise language is crucial in written communication. Help your students understand how to make themselves understood when describing a place with these exercises.

Practice makes perfect, and these exercises that focus on contractions with apostrophes give your student the ability to work independently while still providing helpful hints when needed.

Homophones and homographs make look similar, but they have different meanings, which this exercise will illustrate with classic examples of both.

Encourage students to play the opposite game in this engaging exercise involving synonyms and antonyms.

Solidify your third graders' knowledge of the parts of speech with these exercises that quiz them on what they know and offer hints when necessary.

With so many different types of verbs, students will need an overview on the many other verbs that exist.

Looking forward, students will love being able to describe events they are anticipating after learning the future tense of verbs.

This introduction to past tense verbs will give students the confidence to describe recently passed actions.

Give students an introduction to the most simple of verbs with this exercise on the present tense.

The Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and other proper nouns deserve correct capitalization — and this exercise will help kids remember the rules.

Help your third graders get ahead with these exercises that allow them to practice matching singular and plural subjects and verbs.