Teach your third graders how to write about a sequence of events with these exercises that have them use key words to describe the passage of time.

Help inject personality into your students' written work with this exercise that helps them understand introductory phrases and how to incorporate them into their own writing correctly.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Students will be able to explain a situation clearly after completing this educational exercise on how, when, and where adverbs.

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

Students will have better reading comprehension skills after completing this exercise that shows them how to pick out contextual clues.

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.

Using commas correctly in a list is important for your students' reading, writing, and communication skills. Help them solidify this skill with these comprehensive exercises.

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

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.

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

Abbreviating customary and metric units of measure correctly will come naturally to your students after they work through this exercise.

Students will appreciate the ability to write some of their most commonly used words after working through this exercise on contractions.

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.

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.