Printables
23 sheets to print, grouped by learning area. Grade 3 sheets ask for reasons as well as answers, because explaining why is most of what this year adds. The instruction line at the top is addressed to you.
Reading and writing
English language arts and literature
Punctuation is an instruction
Read it so it sounds like something
Read each line aloud three times: once flat, once following the punctuation, and once for somebody else in the room. Then write what your voice did at each mark.
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Writing is not one pass
Plan it first
Fill the plan in before writing anything else. Then write the piece on the back or on paper. Grade 3 is where writing stops being a single attempt, and the plan is what makes that possible.
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Two different jobs
Revise, then edit
Take something already written. Do the revising questions first and change what it says. Only then do the editing pass. Doing both at once is why neither gets done properly.
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Capitals, punctuation and lists
Make it clearer
Each line is missing something. The hint says what kind of thing. Rewrite it properly underneath — and read it out loud first, because the voice usually tells you where the marks go.
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Somewhere to start
A story from a picture
Draw something in the box — a place, a person, a moment — then use the questions to turn it into a story. A picture is a source of inspiration, which is exactly what Alberta asks for.
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Numbers to 1000
Mathematics
Within 1000
Adding in columns
Line the digits up by place value — ones under ones, tens under tens. Carry above the next column. Saying “ten ones make a ten” out loud the first few times is what makes carrying a reason rather than a rule.
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Within 1000
Subtracting in columns
The first two need no borrowing and the rest do. When the top digit is too small, trade one from the next column — that is what crossing out and writing a small number means.
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Sixteen facts
Times tables
Aim for an answer in about a second. Anything slower is a fact worth practising rather than a question worth working out, and knowing which ones are slow is the useful part.
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The other half of the family
Division facts
Every one of these is a times table fact asked backwards. “24 ÷ 6” is really “six times what makes 24?” — asking it that way is faster than counting.
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Analog and digital
What time is it?
Write each clock's time in digits underneath. Then, on the blank faces, draw the hands for the times given. Watch the hour hand — at half past it sits between two numbers, not on one.
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Looking at sides
Parallel, perpendicular, equal
For each shape write yes or no. Parallel sides stay the same distance apart; perpendicular sides meet at a right angle; equal sides are the same length. A shape can have all three.
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Looking closely
Science
Four words, one loop
The water cycle
Label the stages on the diagram, then answer the questions. The same water goes round — not a drop is made or destroyed anywhere in it.
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Find them at home
Six simple machines
Read what each one does, then find a real example in the house and draw or name it. There are far more than anyone expects — a staircase is a ramp and a tap is a wheel and axle.
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The same stuff, arranged differently
Solid, liquid, gas
Fill in what each change is called, then predict and test. Melting ice and boiling water are the two easiest to do, and freezing takes a few hours.
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What rock remembers
Reading the layers
Colour or label the layers from oldest to newest, then answer the questions. Alberta's badlands are one of the best places on Earth for this, and they are a couple of hours from Calgary.
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Alberta and the prairies
Social studies
Three borders and a mountain range
The shape of Alberta
Label the four borders, mark Edmonton and Calgary, and answer the question. Three of Alberta's borders were agreed by people and one was drawn by the land.
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Match and draw
Alberta's symbols
Draw a line from each kind of symbol to what Alberta chose. Then draw the wild rose, and say what a symbol is actually for.
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Three governments
Who decides?
Canada, Alberta and your city or town each decide different things. Tick which one, then find out the name of your mayor or reeve. Three governments is genuinely confusing, and sorting it now saves years of muddle.
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Natural resources
What comes out of Alberta
Alberta's economy is visible from the highway. Fill in what each one is used for, then sort them by whether they can be replaced.
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Charity and volunteering
Giving time
Alberta's outcome counts giving money and giving time as the same kind of contribution — which matters, because a child usually has one and not the other. Plan one hour.
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Moving and feeling good
Physical education and wellness
Planning is the outcome
Plan a week of moving
Fill in what you will do each day and roughly how long. Put it on the fridge. Alberta's outcome is the planning, and a plan nobody wrote down is a wish.
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Spend, save, share — with a number
A saving goal
Pick something real to save for and work out how long it takes. Saving without a goal is very hard at eight, and naming the goal is most of the work.
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What the technique changes
Same food, cooked two ways
Cook one food two ways — a potato boiled and roasted, an egg boiled and scrambled, an apple raw and baked. Then compare. The outcome is noticing what the technique changed.
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Before you print
- Everything is drawn as outlines, so a sheet costs almost no ink and can be coloured in afterwards.
- Each sheet is one page. Use your browser's print button, or the one at the top of the sheet.
- Most sheets have a short for the grown-up note underneath with the answers and what to watch for. It does not print with the sheet.
- Several sheets have no single right answer on purpose. Those are the ones worth talking through rather than marking.