Spelling Essential Activities for Grade 3

Learning syllables can be tough, but let’s make it easier by offering an easy trick, like looking for long and short vowel sounds! Your child will learn to identify closed syllables by looking for short vowel sounds followed by a consonant on this colorful closed syllables worksheet for 3rd grade!

Some words have letters that are doubled when used in the past tense! This exciting mythology-themed double consonant worksheet for 3rd grade will help your child recognize these words with ease! Simply look through the answer choices to find the words that need double consonants!

Here’s an adorable worksheet that substitutes blanks with colorful pictures to offer clues that lead to the right word! Kids read through each sentence and use the picture clue to find the right answer, identifying the correct spelling on this sight words worksheet: family, horse, house, play!

When learning to read and write, silent letters are a tough topic to tackle since we don’t sound out the letter when we say the word aloud. Help your little learners master reading silent letters like «b» or «k» with this vividly illustrated worksheet! While working, read the sentences and fill in the blanks, selecting the correct word and checking the box. Read all the way to the bottom of the page, and then go back to review the words that contained the silent letters!

This funny worksheet features cute illustrations to engage your child while reading each sentence and filling in the missing word. After reading each sentence, kids look for the correctly spelled version of the missing word in this sight words worksheet: hold, bring, carry, brother!

Phonetic sounds can be tricky sometimes, especially as the same sounds can actually turn out not sounding the same when found in two different words. For example, the /e/ sound found in words like ‘egg’ is not the same as the silent /e/ sound found at the end of words like ‘slime’. Ask your students if they can give you some more examples of words that have this silent /e/ sound. Read the words in this worksheet aloud together with your little ones, and ask them to check the words that have a silent /e/.

There are activities your children engage in regularly, they know when to do them without any reminder. Your little one probably likes a dog and might own one; he/she know when to take the dog out on a walk. This worksheet contains sentences of activities your children engage in regularly, the sentences are not complete though. Your children need to fill in the gaps with the correct spelling of the word in the options. Your kids may know how to spell but they can get confused with tricky sight words. Help your kids to carefully look out for words with the wrong spellings by asking them if they can spot any differences in the options.

This cute and colorful open syllables printable worksheet will help your child recognize open syllables by simply looking for long vowel sounds. Kids enjoy adorable illustrations while reading each word aloud as a strategy to find the correct answers, simply by saying and hearing them!

This joyful sight words worksheet for 3rd grade will build emerging fluency while honing spelling skills in only a few minutes of your child’s day! This quick, but meaningful worksheet tasks your child with reading the sentence filling in each blank with the correctly spelled sight word!

Learning when to use Silent E at the end of words is tricky for young readers, particularly those who use their sounds for decoding. This fun and friendly worksheet addresses several words that look the same but for the Silent E, and helps them practice discriminating visually while choosing the correct word for sentence blanks. They’ll be able to check off the correct word, while visually familiarizing the differences in closed syllables and words that need the E at the end.