Year 3 English Worksheets

Antonyms (extended)

Identify all eight parts of speech in sentences.

More fill-in-the-blank

More capitalisation & punctuation

More grammar practice

More irregular verbs

Simple, continuous and perfect tenses; irregular verbs.

Commas in lists, apostrophes, question marks, quotation marks.

Words in context (extended)

Grammar in context

More parts of speech

Stronger synonyms, antonyms, homophones, prefixes and suffixes.

More verb tenses

Sentence types, conjunctions, subject and predicate, combining sentences.

Sentence craft (advanced)

Extended vocabulary

Synonyms (extended)

More word study

Word study

Understand that social cooperation depends on shared conventions; recognise formal and informal language choices.

Identify modal verbs as language for evaluation, possibility, obligation, and expressing emotion.

Understand that paragraphs are the key organisational feature of extended texts; identify topic sentences.

Identify and use print and digital layout features including headings, subheadings, and navigation aids.

Understand that a clause contains a subject and a verb that must agree in number.

Identify verbs that represent different types of processes: doing, thinking, feeling, and saying.

Use apostrophes correctly to mark contractions and to indicate possession in written texts.

Identify and explain how evaluative language expresses the author's attitude or point of view.

Identify main and subordinate clauses; use subordinating conjunctions to create complex sentences.

Use word families, synonyms, antonyms, and context clues to extend vocabulary.

Identify language features such as sentence types, tense consistency, and noun groups in texts.

More figurative language

More reading & comprehension

Main idea, details, inference, sequencing.

Similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration.

Explore how characters, events, and settings are portrayed across Australian, First Nations, and world authors.

Make connections between personal experiences and the experiences of characters in literary texts.

Identify literary devices including rhythm, onomatopoeia, and repetition and explain their effects.

Identify and describe character, setting and key events in texts.

Explore how literary texts reflect diverse experiences and cultural perspectives.

Identify how word choices and language features create meaning and effects.

Perform and present literary texts using voice and expression.

Share personal responses to texts and justify reading preferences.

Develop personal responses to texts by connecting to characters, events, and personal experience.

Identify and explain the effect of simile, metaphor, personification, and alliteration in texts.

Spelling mega

Spelling

Understand that texts on similar topics vary in features and language depending on their intended audience.

Identify and use consonant patterns and clusters in words.

Identify the characteristic features of imaginative, informative, and persuasive texts.

Use a range of comprehension strategies including inferencing, questioning, and synthesising to understand texts.

Use knowledge of base words, prefixes, and suffixes to spell and understand the meaning of new words.

Explore phoneme-grapheme relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words accurately.

Spell high-frequency words correctly and distinguish between homophones in context.

Understand and use morphemes (prefixes and suffixes) to spell and build words.

Analyse how text type, purpose, and audience affect language choices and structural features.

Apply inference, summarising, and monitoring strategies to understand increasingly complex texts.

Identify reliable information sources; understand the difference between fact and opinion in texts.

Plan, create and edit texts; combine and refine sentences to express ideas clearly.

Write words accurately and fluently, applying spelling generalisations for adding suffixes.