2nd and 3rd Grade English Language Arts Exercises : Page 2

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.

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

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

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

Even after students have learned phonics, there are plenty of irregular words this exercise can help them learn to spell.

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

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

Make it easier for students to spell words by sharing common prefixes with them through this easy to understand exercise.

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

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

When your students are confused about where to place the apostrophe, assign this quick and easy exercise that explains singular and plural possessives.

Help your third grader understand how to correctly identify and utilize demonstrative nouns with these exercises that have them use context clues to pick the best fit.

Understanding coordinating and subordinating conjunctions is made much easier by this exercise filled with opportunities for practice.

Kids will get lots of practice with capitalizing the titles of common books and poems in this exercise. Helpful hints guide kids on the rules of capitalization.

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

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

Students do not have to be the fastest completing this exercise to understand adjectives better than ever before.

Merging short sentences into fluid phrases is key in essay and report writing. Help your third grader master this skill early on with these exercises.

The use of pronouns can make simple sentences more fluid and natural, but incorrect usage can change the meaning all together. Avoid this complication by having your student complete these exercises to solidify concepts.

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

Using more than one pronoun in a sentence can get confusing, but by following some basic rules your third grader will be at the top of his class!

Set students up for alphabetizing practice with this easy to follow exercise that will expand their vocabulary at the same time.

Give your students more descriptive ability with an exercise that introduces new adjectives to their vocabulary.

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

A big part of learning is learning how to consult reference materials, which this exercise demystifies.

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.

Teach your young learners about the importance of apostrophes in writing with these exercises that explain how the punctuation mark can be used to show possessives, and how it differs from contractions.

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.

Finally some clear information on how to use the apostrophe properly, with this exercise on singular possessives.

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