Free Year 3 English worksheets
24 free printable Year 3 English worksheets, one for each unit, for children aged 7 to 8. Open a unit to print its first sheet, with the answers on a separate page for you.
The units are in the order they are taught across the year. The full Year 3 English set is 177 sheets, one for each lesson, and comes with a StudyDen plan. The Year 3 English lesson list shows what each unit teaches.
Every Year 3 English unit
- Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences
Weeks 1 to 2 · free sheet: Four Kinds of Simple Sentence · 8 sheets in the unit
- Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect
Weeks 2 to 3 · free sheet: Past, present or future? · 5 sheets in the unit
- Speech first punctuation and apostrophes
Weeks 3 to 4 · free sheet: Inverted commas show speech · 5 sheets in the unit
- Writing -ed and -ing suffixes
Weeks 4 to 6 · free sheet: Spelling -ed past tense words · 12 sheets in the unit
- More suffixes and silent letters
Weeks 7 to 9 · free sheet: Adding -y to make adjectives · 12 sheets in the unit
- Prefixes, homonyms and homophones
Weeks 9 to 12 · free sheet: Adding prefixes to words · 14 sheets in the unit
- Further study of the four joins
Weeks 12 to 13 · free sheet: The first join · 6 sheets in the unit
- Letter strings
Weeks 13 to 14 · free sheet: Adding -ed and -ing · 6 sheets in the unit
- Building fluency in silent letters, homophones, and common exception words
Weeks 14 to 15 · free sheet: Writing silent letters · 6 sheets in the unit
- Character: big, beautiful and eye words
Weeks 15 to 16 · free sheet: Big words with power · 6 sheets in the unit
- Developing reading preferences in year 3
Week 17 · free sheet: Who Are You as a Reader? · 4 sheets in the unit
- 'Mulan': reading
Weeks 17 to 18 · free sheet: Folk tales and legends · 5 sheets in the unit
- 'The BFG': reading and narrative writing
Weeks 18 to 21 · free sheet: Story shapes and summaries · 12 sheets in the unit
- Poet focus: 'Werewolf Club Rules' by Joseph Coelho
Weeks 21 to 23 · free sheet: Learning about a poet · 10 sheets in the unit
- 'Swallow's Kiss': book club
Week 23 · free sheet: Is it still a poem? · 2 sheets in the unit
- Oral storytelling
Weeks 23 to 24 · free sheet: Retelling Goldilocks in order · 4 sheets in the unit
- 'The Iron Man': narrative writing
Weeks 24 to 26 · free sheet: Retelling The Iron Man · 10 sheets in the unit
- How Bees Make Honey: explanation text
Weeks 26 to 27 · free sheet: Keeping explanations in order · 8 sheets in the unit
- The Journey: diary writing
Weeks 28 to 29 · free sheet: Finding the heart of a story · 8 sheets in the unit
- Poetry inspired by big and small objects: understanding form
Weeks 29 to 31 · free sheet: Reading tricky poems line by line · 8 sheets in the unit
- The Stone Age: non-chronological report
Weeks 31 to 33 · free sheet: Stone Age report features · 10 sheets in the unit
- The Day the Crayons Quit: reading and writing persuasive letters
Weeks 33 to 34 · free sheet: Objects can be characters · 8 sheets in the unit
- Introduction to speeches
Week 35 · free sheet: Speaking to an audience · 4 sheets in the unit
- Reading and performing scripts
Week 36 · free sheet: Reading and performing a play script · 4 sheets in the unit
Every Year 3 English worksheet
The worksheets plan opens a printable sheet for every lesson in Years 1 to 6, each with its answers on a separate page for you. It costs £6.99 a month or £59 a year for the whole family, with no free trial.
The full StudyDen plan adds the lessons themselves, marked as your child works, with the worksheets included. It is 7 days free, then £29.99 a month.
Both start with a free account; you choose the plan when you sign up.