Third Grade Short Stories Worksheets and Activities

Worksheet instructions: Fill in the missing words from the story. Use the clues in parenthesis to figure out what kind of word is missing.

A direct object is a noun that receives the action of the verb. For example: The dogs eat food. The direct object is food; the word ‘eat’ is the verb and ‘food’ is what's being eaten. Worksheet instructions: Underline the verbs and circle the direct objects.

A noun is a person, place, thing or idea. Worksheet instructions: Complete the story below using nouns from the word bank.

A noun is a person, place, thing or idea. Worksheet instructions: Complete the story below using nouns from the word bank.

A noun is a person, place, thing or idea. Worksheet instructions: Complete the story below using nouns from the word bank.

An adjective is a word that tells you what something sounds like, looks like, smells like, or tastes like. Adjectives are describing words. An adverb tells you how, when, or where something occurs. Worksheet instructions: Complete the story with the correct adjectives or adverbs from the box below.

An adverb describes a verb, another adverb, or an adjective. Adverbs answer questions like how, where, when, how much, and how often. Worksheet instructions: Select the adverb that makes the most sense in the sentence.

An adverb is a word that describes a verb. An adverb tells us how, when, or where something happened. A verb is a word that describes an action like play, eat and run. Worksheet instructions: Read the short story and list the verbs and adverbs you find in the correct box.