Year 3 English
Here is a list of English skills students learn in year 3! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Rhyming
Consonant blends and digraphs
- B.1 Complete the word with the correct initial consonant blend
- B.2 Complete the word with the correct final consonant blend
- B.3 Spell the word with a consonant blend
- B.4 Complete the word with the correct digraph: ch, sh, th
- B.5 Complete the word with the correct digraph: ph, qu, wh
- B.6 Spell the digraph word: ch, sh, th
- B.7 Spell the digraph word: ph, qu, wh
- B.8 Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph
- B.9 Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend
- B.10 Complete the sentence with a three-letter consonant blend word
- B.11 Complete the words with silent letters
Short vowels
Short and long vowels
- D.1 Sort short and long vowel words
- D.2 Match the short a and long a words to pictures
- D.3 Match the short e and long e words to pictures
- D.4 Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture
- D.5 Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture
- D.6 Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture
- D.7 Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
- D.8 Is the syllable open or closed?
- D.9 Spell words with open and closed syllables
- D.10 Complete the sentence with the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt or -ost word
Long vowels
- E.1 Choose the silent e word that matches the picture
- E.2 Complete the silent e words
- E.3 Spell the silent e word
- E.4 Choose the picture that matches the vowel digraph word
- E.5 Complete the vowel digraph words
- E.6 Complete the word with the correct vowel digraph
- E.7 Choose the vowel digraph sentence that matches the picture
- E.8 Choose the words with a given long vowel
- E.9 Spell the long a word: silent e, ai, ay
- E.10 Spell the long e word: ee, ea
- E.11 Spell the long i word: silent e, ie, y
- E.12 Spell the long o word: silent e, oa, ow
- E.13 Spell the long u word: silent e, ue, oo, ew
Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow
Syllables
- I.1 How many syllables does the word have?
- I.2 Sort by the number of syllables
- I.3 Put two syllables together to create a word
- I.4 Complete the two-syllable words
- I.5 Complete the sentence with a two-syllable word
- I.6 Complete the consonant-l-e words
- I.7 Choose the correct spelling of the consonant-l-e word
- I.8 Spell the consonant-l-e word
Sight words
Sentence structure
- K.1 Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?
- K.2 Identify the subject of a sentence
- K.3 Identify the predicate of a sentence
- K.4 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- K.5 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- K.6 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- K.7 Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
Nouns
- L.1 Select the nouns
- L.2 Which word is a noun?
- L.3 Identify nouns
- L.4 Sort common and proper nouns
- L.5 Identify common and proper nouns
- L.6 Form regular plurals with -s and -es
- L.7 Use regular plurals with -s and -es
- L.8 Use singular and plural nouns
- L.9 Is the noun singular or plural?
- L.10 Form and use irregular plurals
- L.11 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- L.12 Form the singular or plural possessive
- L.13 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- M.1 Identify personal pronouns
- M.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- M.3 Replace the singular noun with a personal pronoun
- M.4 Replace the plural noun with a personal pronoun
- M.5 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
- M.6 Choose the correct personal pronoun
- M.7 Identify possessive pronouns
- M.8 Use possessive pronouns
- M.9 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- M.10 Use reflexive pronouns
Verbs
- N.1 Use action verbs
- N.2 Identify action verbs
- N.3 Identify helping verbs
- N.4 One or more than one?
- N.5 Use the correct subject or verb
- N.6 Pronoun-verb agreement
- N.7 Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
- N.8 Identify verbs in the regular past tense
- N.9 Form and use the regular past tense
- N.10 Change the sentence to future tense
- N.11 Identify the irregular past tense I
- N.12 Identify the irregular past tense II
- N.13 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
- N.14 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- N.15 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3
- N.16 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4
- N.17 Complete the word with the ending that you hear
- N.18 Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures
- N.19 To be: use the correct present tense form
- N.20 To be: use the correct past tense form
- N.21 To be: use the correct form
- N.22 To have: use the correct form
- N.23 Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
- N.24 Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
Adjectives and adverbs
- P.1 Use sense words
- P.2 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- P.3 Identify the adjective that describes the noun
- P.4 Identify adjectives
- P.5 Identify comparative and superlative adjectives
- P.6 Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
- P.7 Identify adverbs
- P.8 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- P.9 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
Prepositions
Transitions and sequence
Contractions
Capitalisation and formatting
Reference skills
Word meanings
- V.1 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- V.2 Choose the synonym
- V.3 Which sentence has the same meaning?
- V.4 Find synonyms in context
- V.5 Choose the antonym
- V.6 Which sentence uses an antonym?
- V.7 Find antonyms in context
- V.8 Sort words into categories
- V.9 Find the words with related meanings
- V.10 Which word is not like the others?
- V.11 Describe the difference between related words
- V.12 Order related words based on meaning
- V.13 Form compound words
- V.14 Form and use compound words
- V.15 Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- V.16 Homophones with pictures
- V.17 Identify homophones
- V.18 Use the correct homophone
- V.19 Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes
- V.20 Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-
- V.21 Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
- V.22 Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
- V.23 Prefixes and suffixes: review