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!
Reading strategies
Author's purpose
Text structure
Sensory details
Literary devices
Inference
Analyzing informational texts
Visual elements
Text features
Writing strategies
Organizing writing
Topic sentences
Writer's purpose
Linking words
Descriptive details
Sentence variety
Editing and revising
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
- T.1 Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- T.2 Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-
- T.3 Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-
- T.4 Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
- T.5 Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
- T.6 Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
- T.7 Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
- T.8 Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review
- T.9 Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
- T.10 Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
- T.11 Word pattern analogies
- T.12 Word pattern sentences
Compound words
Synonyms and antonyms
Shades of meaning
Context clues
Reference skills
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
- EE.1 Is the sentence a statement, question, command, or exclamation?
- EE.2 Identify the complete subject of a sentence
- EE.3 Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
- EE.4 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- EE.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- EE.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- EE.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
- EE.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
- EE.9 Create compound sentences
- EE.10 Order the words to create a sentence
Nouns
- FF.1 Which word is a noun?
- FF.2 Identify nouns
- FF.3 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
- FF.4 Identify common and proper nouns
- FF.5 Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
- FF.6 Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
- FF.7 Is the noun singular or plural?
- FF.8 Form and use irregular plurals
- FF.9 Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
- FF.10 Form the singular or plural possessive
- FF.11 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- GG.1 Identify personal pronouns
- GG.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- GG.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- GG.4 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
- GG.5 Identify possessive pronouns
- GG.6 Use possessive pronouns
- GG.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- GG.8 Use reflexive pronouns
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
- JJ.1 Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
- JJ.2 Identify verbs in the regular past tense
- JJ.3 Form and use the regular past tense
- JJ.4 Identify the irregular past tense I
- JJ.5 Identify the irregular past tense II
- JJ.6 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
- JJ.7 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- JJ.8 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3
- JJ.9 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4
- JJ.10 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5
- JJ.11 To be: use the correct form
- JJ.12 To have: use the correct form
- JJ.13 Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?
- JJ.14 Change the sentence to future tense
Articles
Adjectives and adverbs
- LL.1 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- LL.2 Identify the adjective that describes the noun
- LL.3 Identify adjectives
- LL.4 Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?
- LL.5 Identify adverbs
- LL.6 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- LL.7 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- LL.8 Use adjectives to compare
- LL.9 Spell adjectives that compare
- LL.10 Use adverbs to compare
Prepositions
Commas
Capitalization
Abbreviations
- RR.1 Abbreviate days of the week
- RR.2 Abbreviate months of the year
- RR.3 Abbreviate people's titles
- RR.4 Abbreviate customary units of measurement
- RR.5 Abbreviate metric units of measurement
- RR.6 Abbreviate street names
- RR.7 Abbreviate state names
- RR.8 Abbreviate street names and state names: review