Third Grade Ela Word Meaning Worksheets

This analogies worksheet helps children compare two unlike things. Try our analogies worksheet with your third grader to strengthen reading and writing skills.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Each sentence on this third grade reading worksheet has a highlighted word, and kids write in an antonym for the word to complete the sentence.

Get some synonym practice with this handy worksheet that asks kids to choose the synonym for each word in bold.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

In this third grade reading worksheet, kids complete sentences with the correct homophones, or words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellings.

To find the answer to each clue on this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids change one letter in the word that was the answer to the previous clue.

Using figurative language is a great way to boost your child's writing skills and creativity. With the help of this worksheet, she'll be a metaphor master.

Here's a helpful lesson on homographs! Students can learn about words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings.

Your students will practice using sentence clues to identify the meaning of homographs.

Test your third grader's vocabulary with this nifty practice test that quizzes her on word definitions

On this third grade reading worksheet, each crossword puzzle clue is a sentence with a highlighted word. Kids write the antonym of the word in the puzzle.

Looking for a worksheet to help you third grade child with vocabulary? This printable will help him by using context clues.

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Use this resource to review important vocabulary terms in the genre of fiction.

Hunting for a worksheet to help your child improve his vocabulary? This printable uses context clues to teach new words.

Help your third grader with reading comprehension in this fun activity page on Rudyard Kipling's charming story, "The Elephant's Child."

Complete a cool puzzle game by finding antonyms (opposites) of words.

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

This mid-year assessment will assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

What is the rocky cycle? This info sheet answers that question with the help of a colorful diagram and a shout out to important vocabulary.

Practice spelling some common compound words with this spelling test and activity.

Choose the correct spelling (and meaning) between two words that sound the same in sentences.