3rd and 4th Grade English Language Arts Exercises : Page 3

Show students why they need to give special attention to the syllable ‘y’ found at the end of many words.

English is a language full of exceptions to rules, and this exercise will enhance students’ understanding of irregularly spelled words.

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

Teach students the importance of abstract nouns, or things you can't actually see or touch, and how to incorporate them into writing to demonstrate the correct tone.

Relative pronouns make it simple for your fourth grader to describe the subject of a sentence in a fluid and orderly way. Give them the practice they need with these exercises and helpful hints.

Help your students add detail to their writing by having them incorporate comparative and superlative adjectives. Detailed writing is important as your fourth grader continues on in school and writing assignments become more intense.

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

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.

Help your fourth grader decide whether a sentence's punctuation is correct with these exercises that give them helpful hints and visual clues.

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

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

Matching pronouns with their antecedent in writing can be confusing for some fourth graders, but these exercises were developed to aid in student understanding and retention.

Our world is measured in relative phrases, and prepositions allow your student to describe nouns in a way that utilizes the knowledge of another.

In addition to different tenses, helping, linking, and descriptive verbs, there are many other types that need review.

Show students how verbs can be used to add more character to a statement using descriptive verbs.

Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Help develop the fluency of your student's writing with these exercises that help them understand the importance of matching object and subject pronouns with their antecedent.

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

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

Use this exercise to give your struggling student additional practice in recognizing when to capitalize the names of people, places, and things.

With the ability to use verbs in the future tense, students will better be able to describe their ambitions.

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

Students will understand how to utilize suffixes to modify verb-noun pairs into adjective-adverb pairs with this helpful exercise.

After this exercise, students will be able to easily use suffixes to change an adjective into a noun.

Solidify previous lessons with these exercises that review simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will pick the correct form of a sentence from multiple choices.

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

Some words are remarkably similar, and this exercise will build students’ confidence in finding the difference between them.

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.

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

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.