Third grade language arts
Here is a list of language arts skills students learn in third grade! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practicing, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Sentence structure
- A.1 Is the sentence a statement, question, command, or exclamation?
- A.2 Identify the complete subject of a sentence
- A.3 Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
- A.4 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- A.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- A.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- A.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
- A.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
- A.9 Create compound sentences
- A.10 Order the words to create a sentence
- A.11 Create a sentence based on the model
Nouns
- B.1 Which word is a noun?
- B.2 Identify nouns
- B.3 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
- B.4 Identify common and proper nouns
- B.5 Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
- B.6 Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
- B.7 Is the noun singular or plural?
- B.8 Form and use irregular plurals
- B.9 Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
- B.10 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.11 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- C.1 Identify personal pronouns
- C.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- C.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- C.4 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
- C.5 Identify possessive pronouns
- C.6 Use possessive pronouns
- C.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- C.8 Use reflexive pronouns
Verbs
- D.1 Use action verbs
- D.2 Identify action verbs
- D.3 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
- D.4 Is the subject singular or plural?
- D.5 Use the correct subject or verb
- D.6 Pronoun-verb agreement
- D.7 Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
- D.8 Identify verbs in the regular past tense
- D.9 Form and use the regular past tense
- D.10 Identify the irregular past tense I
- D.11 Identify the irregular past tense II
- D.12 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
- D.13 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- D.14 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3
- D.15 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4
- D.16 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5
- D.17 To be: use the correct form
- D.18 To have: use the correct form
- D.19 Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?
- D.20 Change the sentence to future tense
Articles
Adjectives and adverbs
- F.1 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- F.2 Identify the adjective that describes the noun
- F.3 Identify adjectives
- F.4 Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?
- F.5 Identify adverbs
- F.6 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- F.7 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- F.8 Use adjectives to compare
- F.9 Spell adjectives that compare
- F.10 Use adverbs to compare
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Contractions
Commas
Capitalization
Abbreviations
Special punctuation and formatting
Prefixes and suffixes
- N.1 Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- N.2 Word pattern analogies
- N.3 Word pattern sentences
- N.4 Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-
- N.5 Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-
- N.6 Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
- N.7 Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
- N.8 Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
- N.9 Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
- N.10 Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review
- N.11 Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
- N.12 Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
Greek and Latin roots
Word relationships and usage
- Q.1 Choose the synonym
- Q.2 Which sentence has the same meaning?
- Q.3 Find synonyms in context
- Q.4 Choose the antonym
- Q.5 Which sentence uses an antonym?
- Q.6 Find antonyms in context
- Q.7 Order items from most general to most specific
- Q.8 Select the members of a group
- Q.9 Select the words that don't belong
- Q.10 Form compound words with pictures
- Q.11 Form compound words
- Q.12 Form and use compound words
- Q.13 Spell rhyming words to answer riddles
- Q.14 Shades of meaning with pictures
- Q.15 Describe the difference between related words
- Q.16 Positive and negative connotation
- Q.17 Homophones with pictures
- Q.18 Identify homophones
- Q.19 Use the correct homophone
- Q.20 Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Q.21 Which definition matches the sentence?
- Q.22 Which sentence matches the definition?
Context clues
Common errors
Planning and organizing writing
Main idea and author's purpose
Text structure
Descriptive and figurative language
Describing characters
Reading comprehension and analysis
- Y.1 Make predictions about a story
- Y.2 Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
- Y.3 Identify story elements
- Y.4 Vocabulary review: Identify story elements
- Y.5 Analyze short stories
- Y.6 Vocabulary review: Analyze short stories
- Y.7 Read and understand informational passages
- Y.8 Vocabulary review: Read and understand informational passages