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Grade 3 Workbook
Written by Jan Meyer Consulting Editor: Anna Shults
W o r k ma n N e w
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P u blis h i n g Y o r k
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Contents Spelling and Vocabulary .. . . . . . . . . . .
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Language Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Math Skills .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
135
Addition and Subtraction . . . . . . . . . .
157
Multiplication and Division . . . . . . . . .
177
Fractions and Decimals .. . . . . . . . . .
207
Measurement .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
229
Time and Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
239
Word Problems .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Social Studies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
263
Science .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
279
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
301
Brain Quest Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . .
309
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Spelling and Vocabulary
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The Long and Short of It Circle the correct spelling of the long vowel word. Then sort the words by spelling pattern on the cards below.
Spelling and Vocabulary Short and long vowels
Molly gave a bath to the straigh stray straye dog. Reid wanted extra cheese chease chese on his pizza. Mackenzie put the blue bloo blu notebook in her toat tote tot bag. It was a good day to take the bote boat out on the lake laik layk . Shonda got in lin line lyn to see the rhino rhighno rhyno . The school should suppli suppligh supply the chalk. Most of the artists painted paynted on eesels easels . Gavin used the key kee kea to open oapen his huge hug heug art stuedio studio . Eight Eaght Ait little ducklings crossed the pathway. The waitress took a coffee break braik brayk .
long a words long e words stray
long u words
long i words
The long e sound can be spelled: ee, ea, or ey The long a sound can be spelled: a_e, ai, ay, ea, or ei
long o words
The long i sound can be spelled: i, i_e, or y
The long o sound can be spelled: o, o_e, or oa
The long u soun d can be spelled: u, u_e, or ue Brain Quest Third Grade Workbook
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Circle the correct spelling of the short vowel word. Then sort the words by spelling pattern on the cards below. The new girl at school made frends friends quickly. Ebony called ahead ahed to
Spelling and Vocabulary
make a reservation. Jung left his ombrella umbrella
Short and long vowels
on the bus bos . Katherine stepped onto the bottom botom bohtom rung of the read red raid ladder. The audience laffed laughed at all the funny things the actors sed said sead. He grabbed graibbed his skates and went down to the roller renk rink rynk. The little pig pyg is bright pynk penk pink. Dylan put a sauddle saeddle saddle on the horse. Jenna ordered turkey and ham on rye bred bread .
short u words
Raquel needed to wash wosh her bicycle.
short e words
s h o r t a wo r d s
short i words
short o words nd The short a sou can be spelled: au or a
The short o sound is usually spelled: o or a
The short u sound can be spelled: u
The short e sound can be spelled: e, ea, ai, or ie
The short i sound can be spelled: i
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Cowabunga! Label each picture using a word from the Word Box. Then circle the letters that make the k sound in each word.
Spelling and Vocabulary
sock
cake
castle
kayak
school
kangaroo
racket
Monarch
chameleon
K sounds
school
Brain Box The k sound can be spelled with a k, c, ch, or ck. For example: king, cook, school, brick
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Did You Hear That? Circle the silent consonant in each word. Some words have more than one.
Spelling and Vocabulary
night
comb
climb
write
raspberry
knowledge
autumn wrong
right
Silent consonants
campaign
gnome
doubt
Write a sentence using a silent b word.
Write a sentence using a silent k word.
Brain Box Write a sentence using a silent gh word.
Write a sentence using a silent p word.
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Silent consonants are letters that become silent when combined with other letters. For example: w as in wrist k as in knock b as in thumb gh as in eight g as in sign p as in cupboard h as in why n as in column
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Double or Nothing Rewrite each word using ing. swim
swimming
dream Spelling and Vocabulary Words ending in ed or ing
jump
run
ask
dig
drive
change
write
win
N ow write th ree sentenc es least two of the ing word that use at s a bove.
Brain Box Follow these rules when adding ed or ing to a word: • If a word ends in a silent e, drop the e: hope = hoped, hoping • If a word ends in a single vowel followed by a single consonant, double the consonant: hop = hopped, hopping • If a word ends in a consonant followed by the letter y, change the y to i before adding ed: carry = carried
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Rewrite ea ch word using
ed .
____ wish_ ________________ ____ shop_ ________________ _____ live_ ________________ ____
shine_________________ hu
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Complete each sentence with a word from the Word Box. Change the spelling by adding ed or ing. I am
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smile________________
_____ scrub________________ ___
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worr y pop slip
Spelling and Vocabulary Words ending in -ed or -ing
rob sneeze wave
about my social studies
test tomorrow. I started The father
when I smelled the flowers. to his daughters as they got
on the bus. Everyone jumped when he the balloons. He started The thief
on the icy driveway. the bank.
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Orderly Neighbors Complete each word with ie or ei. You see your w
e i ght when you get on a scale. ve.”
Another word for “get” is “rec Spelling and Vocabulary
f.
A person who steals something is a th gh on Christmas Eve.
Santa rides a sl
Words with ie and ei
nce.
We did an experiment in sc
ght.
The number after seven is
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ce.
The puzzle is missing one p
When i and e are side-byside, the i comes before the e, except after c. For example: grief, friend, receive, deceit When i and e make a long a sound, e comes before the i. For example: neighbor, vein
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If I ever saw a ghost, I would shr
ght train carries heavy loads.
A fr A ch
f is the leader of a tribe.
Circle the ie and ei words in the word search below. Words go across or down.
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You’re Right, They’re Wrong Circle each misspelled word in the Word Box. Febuary
enuf
shoping
favrit
busy
because
once
hitting
dinasor
suprise
Wensday
receive
peeple
anser
minit
docter
please
kwite
calendar
Spelling and Vocabulary Commonly misspelled words
giving
Write each misspelled word correctly on the lines below. February
ords you spe w re o m r o o tw g in us ke Write a jo
Write a sentence using tw
lled correctly.
o of the words you spelle
d correctly.
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The More the Merrier Write the plural for each word. knives
knife
Spelling and Vocabulary Plurals
dwarf
city
glass
shelf
brush
penny
tax
witch
candy
turkey
ray
Brain Box There are special rules for changing some words from singular to plural: • If a noun ends in sh, ch, ss, or x, add -es. For example: crush crushes • If a noun ends in a consonant followed by a y, change the y to i and add es. For example: hurry hurries
What other words follow these special plural rules? Write the plural form of as many words as you can think of on the cards. Nouns ending in sh, ch, ss, x
Nouns ending in a consonant followed by y
Nouns ending in a vowel followed by y
Nouns ending in f or fe
• If a noun ends in a vowel followed by a y, add s. For example: toy toys For many nouns ending in f or fe, change the f or fe to v and add es. For example: loaf loaves
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Two’s Company Write the plural for each word. Then circle the plural forms in the word search. Words go across and down.
Spelling and Vocabulary
baby
house
___________ babies
___________
bunny ___________
peach
fox
___________
boy
___________
puppy
___________
Plurals
elf
___________
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Rule Breakers Fill in the blanks to write the irregular plural for each oddball word.
Spelling and Vocabulary Irregular plurals
child
child
mouse
m
man
m
tooth
t
sheep
sh
r e n e n th p
goose
g
se
woman
wom
n
ox
ox
fish
f
moose
m
sh se
Finish the story using at least five irregular plurals. The children went to the zoo yesterday.
Draw a picture to go with
your story.
Brain Box Some words don’t follow the rules for making plurals. These are called irregular plurals.
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Special Beginnings Complete each word using a prefix from the box. re
pre
mis
sub
I saw that movie before any of my friends.
Spelling and Vocabulary
pre view of it the day before it opened.
I went to a
My dog is well trained, but yesterday he
behaved
Prefixes
by jumping up on our best living room chair. My little sister knocked over her tower of blocks. Now she has to
build it.
The bricks were starting to crumble off the side of the building. The construction of the building must be
standard.
He got only one word wrong on his spelling test. He
spelled the word “horrible.�
The cookbook said to
heat the oven
for thirty minutes before putting in the cake. My dad painted the kitchen purple, but the color seemed wrong to him. Now he wants to
paint the room.
Brain Box
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A prefix is a group of letters that changes the meaning of a word when added to the beginning of the word. For example, the prefix sub means below. A subzero temperature is a temperature below zero.
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That’s a Negative Complete each word using a prefix from the box. dis
Spelling and Vocabulary Prefixes
im
un
happy when we lost the baseball game!
I was so
I can hardly wait to I am
in
wrap my birthday presents.
patient to read my book. It is
polite to talk with your mouth full.
The toys are on sale. I can buy two because they are
expensive.
My brothers and I sometimes
agree about who should
sit by the window. At first, climbing the hill seemed
possible, but we stuck
with it and got to the top. Although I
like brussels sprouts, I love most vegetables.
I form my own opinions. I am an
Write a sentence using a
dependent thinker.
t least two words with pre
fixes.
Brain Box The prefixes dis, in, im, and un mean not or the opposite of. For example, disinterested means not interested.
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What’s Back There? Read each sentence. Find the missing word in the Word Box and then add ful or less to make it correct in the sentence. hope
care
thought
color
fear
power
use
help
Spelling and Vocabulary Suffixes
Dylan loved the feeling of taking off in an airplane. He could feel how
powerful
the engines were.
Sharise’s aunt is
. She sends
Sharise a special card every holiday. Ming is
when it comes to
gymnastics. He’ll try just about anything. Cole is not the fastest runner in the class, but he is still that he will win the race. I love helping my mom cook dinner and set the table. It makes me feel like I’m being
.
I like trying to spot bright, cheery butterflies. The more , the better! Arguing with my sister is He was so all over the canvas.
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. She is so stubborn! with the paint. It splattered
Brain Box A suffix is a group of letters that changes the meaning of a word when added to the ending of a word. For example, the suffix ful means full of. A cheerful person is someone who is full of cheer.
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What’s My Job? Label each picture using a word from the Word Box. Add er, or, ist, or ian to complete the word.
Spelling and Vocabulary
violin
sing
write
teach
magic
act
dance
art
Suffixes
teacher
Brain Box The suffixes -er, -or, -ist, and -ian mean someone who. For example: farmer = someone who works on a farm editor = someone who edits cellist = someone who plays the cello comedian = someone who performs comedy
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