3rd grade vocabulary worksheets
Synonyms, antonyms, word parts, and words with more than one meaning. Every vocabulary skill we teach at 3rd grade, one to a page. Each prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
Vocabulary skills for 3rd grade
- Antonyms Choose the word · answer key Antonyms are opposites: hot and cold, up and down, open and closed.
- Compound words Fix it & Choose the word · answer key A compound word is two words joined into one new meaning: sun + flower = sunflower.
- Homophones Choose the word · answer key Homophones are words that sound exactly alike but are spelled differently and mean different things: sea and see, bear and bare. The sentence tells you which one belongs.
- Multiple-meaning words Choose the word · answer key Some words carry more than one meaning: a bat flies at night, and a bat hits a baseball. The rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is on duty.
- Prefixes Choose the word · answer key A prefix is glued to the front of a word and changes its meaning: un- flips lock into unlock.
- Suffixes Choose the word · answer key A suffix is glued to the end of a word and changes its job: care becomes careful, careless, or carefully.
- Synonyms Choose the word · answer key Synonyms are words that mean almost the same thing: happy and glad, big and large.
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