Third Grade Resources

Harcourt Trophies
This preview site contains examples of electronic resources available for our new basal reading series.

Sight Words
This teacher has created word lists, PowerPoint flashcards, and other resources that can be used to teach words from the basal reading series, Harcourt Trophies.

Beverly Cleary Page
Multinomah County Library in Portland, Oregon

BBC-Schools
This site features learning resources for all subjects for ages 4-16+.

Charlotte's Web Activities
From abcteach

CyberGuides: Grades K-3
Extensive, high-quality lessons and units for popular Children's Books.

English Saves the Day Interactive Grammar Game
Some of the "correct" answers are not counted as correct because the computer has another one in mind, but students will be able to learn from this game. ("Smile" and "frown" are not nouns when "ball" is a also a choice.)

Go for the Grammar Gold
Harcourt School Interactive Grammar games for grades 1-5

Goals/Evaluations/, Portfolio Covers
From abcteach

Grade 3 and 4 Reading List
This comes from the site edu4kids.

Grammar Gorillas
Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.

Grammar Practice Park
Students will become confident, accurate users of English through clever, enjoyable games and activities. There is a game for each skill—24 games per grade. (Grades 3-5)

Grammar Skill Sheets
From abcteach

Handwriting Skill Sheets
From abcteach

Handwriting Worksheets
This site features letters and pages in all sizes. She also features blank lined paper you can print out. This is so convenient if you run out of handwriting paper and need some in a jiffy! She has manuscript, modern manuscript, italic, cursive and italic cursive. The worksheets have words, numbers, months, etc. and the individual letters.

Harcourt Brace Spelling Exercises
Excellent Interactive Exercises--Grade 3

Language Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
From edhelper.com

The Learning Page: Handwriting
Here there are free worksheets in basic manuscript and cursive. You really have an entire workbook of practice sheets here at the cost of your printer paper and ink

Lists of Dolch Sight Words
This section will have various free materials for Dolch sight words. All the Dolch materials will have a key made of dots to distinguish between each group of words. The key is as follows and will remain consistent throughout all the materials for Dolch words. The dots for the levels are in the lower right hand corner. Preprimer words will have one dot. Primer words will have two dots. 1st grade words will have three dots. 2nd grade words will have four dots. 3rd grade words will have five dots.

Look, Cover, Write, Check
This site is from Toftwood School, and it is equally good, but the words can be easier, so the grade level can be moved down to grade 2. Students practice their spelling by having the word displayed, then covered up. They must then type the word to see if they can type it correctly. Excellent spelling and typing practice. (Toftwood School) (Grades 2-5)

The Magic School Bus
Lots of fun activities await you here.

Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Students and parents will be able to review grammar usage, and mechanics at school and at home through animated graphics that make concepts come alive from Harcourt School Publishers for grades 1-5.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
From edhelper.com

ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Scramble-Saurus
Interactive spelling games for intermediate grades (Grades 3-5)

Sight Words
Lists of Words with online matching games (Grades 1-4)

Simon
Memory Game with flashing lights--This game is good for memory as well as practicing the mouse for students who are having difficulty with hand-eye coordination. (Grades K-3)

Songs
Students will have fun with these songs that teach concepts such as homophones, vowel sounds, and consonant sounds.

Spelling Worksheets (Grade 3)
From edhelper.com

Stories
Each story leads into an adventure of related games.

Teaching with the Web
A list of activities for grades 3-5 from Jerrie S. Cheek Educational Technology Center - KSU Kennesaw, GA

Vocabulary Worksheets (Grade 3)
From edhelper.com

Wacky Web Tales
Students practice parts of speech as they fill in the blanks of stories for wacky results.