3rd Grade Teaching Resources
Explore free worksheets for 3rd graders, 3rd-grade math worksheets, spelling words, games and so much more! This collection of printable and digital teacher resources was created by elementary school teachers for teachers just like you.
You'll find thousands of 3rd-grade activities aligned with Common Core ELA and math standards, as well as state-level guidelines.
Best of all? Each resource in this collection has been rigorously reviewed by the expert educators on our team to ensure it's ready for your classroom, your lesson plans and your students!
Our 3rd Grade Teaching Resources
The third-grade worksheets, activities, games, instructional slide decks, and more have been created and designed to enable students to successfully transition into the middle years of their elementary school education. Each resource design features engaging layouts, grade-level appropriate text, appealing images, and interactive elements that captivate young minds.
You'll find printable worksheets, digital downloads, and more for the third-grade curriculum. Develop your students’ math skills like patterns and places value, number operations, problem-solving, and reasoning across 3 content strands. Explore English language arts with immersive resources for listening to, reading, and interpreting a diverse range of text types.
Download these resources plus thousands of science, art, social studies, and more activities below!
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3-D Shapes - Christmas Ornaments Printable
Turn 3-D nets into paper Christmas ornaments with a fun set of printable ornament templates.
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Holiday Picture Surprise - Christmas Craft
Watch your students' eyes light up with this magical Christmas craft.
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DIY Pop-Up Card Template - Winter Scene
Create adorable snowman Christmas cards with a printable pop-up card template.
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Boston Tea Party - RACES Writing Strategy Worksheet
Integrate reading, writing, and American history with a worksheet about the Boston Tea Party using the RACES writing strategy for text evidence.
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Differentiated Winter Word Search Printable
Add a frosty twist to your seasonal studies with a winter word search printable teaching resource.
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Christmas Paragraph Editing Worksheets (2-3)
Practice correcting capitalization and punctuation errors with a set of Christmas-themed paragraph editing worksheets for 2nd and 3rd Grade.
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Christmas Interactive: Singular and Plural Nouns
Practice using singular and plural nouns with a fun Christmas-themed digital resource.
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Christmas Collaborative Art Project - Coloring Mural
Create a beautiful whole class holiday bulletin board with this collaborative Christmas-themed classroom mural.
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Math in the Real World - Budgeting Planning Project
Introduce your students to the world of making a budget with an immersive “It’s My Life” budgeting for kids project.
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New Year's Pop-Up Card
Ring in the new year in your classroom with this engaging 3-D cityscape craft activity for students.
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Create an 'Elfie Selfie' Template
Create an adorable 'Elfie Selfie' with an easy Christmas craft for kids.
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Christmas Spelling Lists and Activity Sheets
Bring festive fun to your literacy lessons with these Christmas spelling lists and related activities, perfect to use in the lead-up to winter break.
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Winter Writing Prompts
Engage your students with these winter writing prompts that inspire creativity and critical thinking throughout December, January and February.
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Funky Candy Cane - Christmas Paper Craft
Create a fun Christmas candy cane with our Funky Candy Cane Craft template!
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Holiday and Christmas Anagram Worksheets
Spice up your word study centers with a holiday-inspired set of anagram worksheets.
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Pop-Up Christmas Card Template - Santa Stuck in Chimney
Learn how to make pop-up cards with your students with a printable pop-up Christmas Card Template.
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New Year Goal Setting Worksheets - Firework Template
Prompt students to set various personal and academic goals at the start of the new year with our fireworks-themed goal-setting template.
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Holiday Mini-Mystery – Whose Present Is the One with Plain Brown Paper?
A fun, logic-based holiday activity where students read clues to solve the mystery.
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Mindful Coloring - Christmas Coloring Sheets
Use a Christmas mindful coloring sheet as a fun art activity with your students.
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Mass Mystery Escape Room
Explore the different elements of mass with this super fun and engaging escape room resource.
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Santa’s New Sleigh - Christmas STEM Activity
Design and build a new sleigh for Santa with a printable Christmas STEM project.
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Adding Suffixes - Vocabulary Worksheet
Review concepts related to suffixes with a printable grammar worksheet.
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Identifying Fractions – Worksheet
Strengthen student understanding of fraction models, how to identify fractions on a number line, and determine a fraction of a set with this free worksheet.
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Comprehension Worksheets - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Read and learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a reading comprehension passage and worksheet pack.
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Verb Tense Printable Christmas Activity Cards
Practice identifying past, present, and future tense verbs with a set of Christmas Verb Tense Task Cards!
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Amelia Earhart Constructed Response Worksheet
Use this passage, second grade writing prompt, and worksheet to help students write a constructed response paragraph about Amelia Earhart.
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Emotion Strategies Wheel
Help your students self-regulate when they experience "big" emotions with this hands-on emotions wheel with accompanying calming strategies.
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Holiday Mini-Mystery – Who Put Up Their Holiday Decorations Too Early?
Read clues to solve a mystery with this fun, logic-based Christmas-themed activity.
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Roll a Snowman Game
Play our Roll a Snowman game to generate fun characters and writing prompts for wintry writing fun!
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Fossil Coloring Pages
Use our free fossil coloring sheets to explore the different types of fossils.
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Free Planet Coloring Pages
Use these black and white planet templates as coloring pages for your students.
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Free Desert Animal Adaptations Worksheets - Comprehension
Discover desert animal adaptations with a printable reading comprehension worksheet pack for 3rd grade.