Third Grade Ela Word Meaning Worksheets

With this worksheet your third graders will enjoy learning important facts about the Statue of Liberty and strengthen their vocabulary.

Challenge your child to to identify compound words, contractions, and abbreviations in a short story.

Your third grader will have fun figuring out clues with this colorful crossword puzzle all about Christmas! She'll even sneak in some handwriting practice too.

Use this resource for your students to practice using context to determine word meanings.

Give your students practice matching up abbreviations with their corresponding words! With this worksheet, your young readers will have fun figuring out the abbreviated versions of words like April and President.

This homograph worksheets gets your kid to learn about words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Try our homograph worksheet with your child.

Does your child know when to use the word "sealing" versus "ceiling?" Help your little scholar differentiate between two homophones in this worksheet.

Kids use context to figure out the meaning of words.

Kids who love space can learn all about the heroic Sally Ride, the first American woman to venture into space.

Set your sights on this spelling worksheet about words with '-ight' as the suffix, and you just might start to get it right.

Introduce your child to one charming character â Johnny Appleseed! Then, can you guess three of the apple names on the page?

Got a budding poet under your wing? Help her practice parts of speech by writing a diamante poem, or a diamond poem.

This printable will challenge your child's understanding of "homographs", or words that looks the same as another words, but means something different.

This well-rounded quiz covers a range of vocabulary topics, from alphabetical order and root words to synonyms and antonyms.

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

On this third grade reading worksheet, kids write sentences for homographs, which are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

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

When your students come across a new or important word, use this worksheet to help them gain a better understanding of the word.

This exercise will give your students practice identifying synonyms and using them in context.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing his own metaphors in no time, then he can use them in a poem.

Help your kid learn about "then" versus "than" before putting his new knowledge to the test with eight practice problems.

Use this resource to help your students practice using compound words in context.

Combine dollars and cents with spelling sense in this 3rd grade spelling test that works with money-related sight words.