Year 3 English

IXL offers more than 100 year 3 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

IXL offers more than 100 year 3 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

Short vowels

  1. C.1
    Complete the word with the correct short vowel
  2. C.2
    Spell the short a word
  3. C.3
    Spell the short e word
  4. C.4
    Spell the short i word
  5. C.5
    Spell the short o word
  6. C.6
    Spell the short u word

Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow

  1. F.1
    Choose the diphthong word that matches the picture
  2. F.2
    Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow
  3. F.3
    Choose the diphthong sentence that matches the picture

Variant vowels

  1. G.1
    Complete words with variant vowels
  2. G.2
    Which word has a different vowel sound?

Sight words

  1. J.1
    Choose the sight word that you hear
  2. J.2
    Complete the sentence with the correct sight word
  3. J.3
    Spell the sight word

Articles

  1. O.1
    Use the correct article: a or an
  2. O.2
    Identify articles

Prepositions

  1. Q.1
    Select the best preposition to match the picture
  2. Q.2
    Select the best preposition to complete the sentence

Transitions and sequence

  1. R.1
    Use conjunctions
  2. R.2
    Identify time-order words
  3. R.3
    Put the sentences in order

Contractions

  1. S.1
    Form pronoun-verb contractions
  2. S.2
    Form contractions with "not"
  3. S.3
    Use pronoun-verb contractions
  4. S.4
    Use contractions with "not"
  5. S.5
    Use contractions in a sentence

Capitalisation and formatting

  1. T.1
    Capitalising the names of people and pets
  2. T.2
    Capitalising days, months and holidays
  3. T.3
    Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
  4. T.4
    Capitalising titles
  5. T.5
    Greetings and closings of letters