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Class 3 English Worksheets with Answers (Grade 3) - Free PDF 2026-27

Q: My child reads fluently but cannot answer comprehension questions. Why?

Because decoding and comprehension are separate skills and only decoding has been taught deliberately so far. There is also a capacity reason: if decoding still takes effort, all of a child's working memory goes to the words and none is left for the meaning.

Three complete Class 3 English worksheets with every question on the page and a full answer key - nouns, verbs and adjectives; reading comprehension with two passages; and tenses, plurals and articles. They follow NCERT's Santoor, the current Class 3 English book under NCF-SE 2023, which replaced Marigold. Class 3 is the year reading stops being the goal and becomes the tool, which changes what a worksheet needs to do.

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What these practise

Nouns - common and proper, and capitalisation
Verbs - finding the doing word, which most other grammar depends on
Adjectives - choosing a word that sensibly describes a noun
Reading comprehension - answering from the text rather than from memory
Tenses - present and past, separating regular from irregular
Plurals and articles - the patterns, and the cases that break them

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Class 3 English Nouns and Verbs Worksheet

Class 3 English · Nouns, verbs and adjectives · 68 questions with answers

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The first formal grammar most children meet, and the point is not the labels but noticing that words do different jobs in a sentence. A child who can find the verb can later find the subject, then the object, then fix their own sentence - which is what all of this is for.

Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives in a sentence.
Tell a common noun from a proper noun and capitalise correctly.
Choose an adjective that fits a given noun.

Exercise 1 of 5 · 12 questions

Underline the noun in each sentence. (Write it out.)

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

The cat slept on the mat → nouns are cat and mat. A noun is a naming word - a person, place, animal or thing. Ask 'what or who is this sentence about?' and 'what things are mentioned?'

1)The dog barked loudly.
2)My sister reads every night.
3)A bird sat on the branch.
4)The teacher opened the window.
5)Rain fell all afternoon.
6)Children played in the park.
7)The postman rang the bell.
8)Delhi is a very big city.
9)My uncle drives a lorry.
10)The kettle boiled on the stove.
11)Farmers work in the fields.
12)The moon looked bright tonight.

Answers

1) dog
2) sister (also night)
3) bird (also branch)
4) teacher (also window)
5) Rain (also afternoon)
6) Children (also park)
7) postman (also bell)
8) Delhi (also city)
9) uncle (also lorry)
10) kettle (also stove)
11) Farmers (also fields)
12) moon (also tonight)

Exercise 2 of 5 · 12 questions

Write the verb (the doing word) from each sentence.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

The boy kicked the ball → kicked. Find the noun first, then ask what that person or thing is DOING. Being able to find the verb is the most useful grammar skill at this age - almost everything else builds on it.

1)The boy kicked the ball.
2)She writes neatly.
3)Birds fly in the sky.
4)We ate our lunch.
5)The baby sleeps quietly.
6)They built a sandcastle.
7)The cow chewed the grass.
8)Amma bought vegetables.
9)The bell rings at nine.
10)He climbed the wall.
11)The train arrived late.
12)Fish swim in the pond.

Answers

1) kicked
2) writes
3) fly
4) ate
5) sleeps
6) built
7) chewed
8) bought
9) rings
10) climbed
11) arrived
12) swim

Exercise 3 of 5 · 16 questions

Write C for common noun and P for proper noun.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

river → C, Ganga → P. A proper noun names one particular thing and always starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any one of a kind. The capital letter is the giveaway.

1)river
2)Ganga
3)city
4)Delhi
5)boy
6)Ravi
7)month
8)August
9)school
10)Kendriya Vidyalaya
11)day
12)Monday
13)festival
14)Diwali
15)country
16)India

Answers

1) C
2) P
3) C
4) P
5) C
6) P
7) C
8) P
9) C
10) P
11) C
12) P
13) C
14) P
15) C
16) P

Exercise 4 of 5 · 12 questions

Write a sensible adjective for each noun.

Fill in the blank · Practice

1)a ___ elephant
2)a ___ flower
3)a ___ night
4)a ___ boy
5)a ___ river
6)a ___ box
7)a ___ mountain
8)a ___ mango
9)a ___ crowd
10)a ___ voice
11)a ___ road
12)a ___ story

Answers

1) big / huge / grey
2) beautiful / red / small
3) dark / cold / quiet
4) tall / kind / clever
5) long / deep / wide
6) heavy / empty / wooden
7) high / snowy / steep
8) sweet / ripe / juicy
9) large / noisy / patient
10) loud / soft / sweet
11) narrow / busy / dusty
12) funny / long / sad

Exercise 5 of 5 · 16 questions

Sort each word - write N for noun, V for verb, A for adjective.

Write the answer · Challenge

1)run
2)happy
3)table
4)jump
5)beautiful
6)school
7)sing
8)cold
9)river
10)shiny
11)brave
12)eat
13)kindness
14)swim
15)heavy
16)teacher

Answers

1) V
2) A
3) N
4) V
5) A
6) N
7) V
8) A
9) N
10) A
11) A
12) V
13) N
14) V
15) A
16) N

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Finding the verb is the skill worth prioritising. Once a child can reliably spot the doing word, subject, object and tense all become findable - without it, none of them are.
For adjectives, several answers are correct. Mark for whether the word sensibly describes the noun, not against a single expected answer.
The capital letter is the fastest test for a proper noun. If a child is unsure, ask whether it names one particular thing or any one of a kind.

Open the Nouns, verbs and adjectives worksheet on its own page

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Class 3 English Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Class 3 English · Reading comprehension · 38 questions with answers

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The sheet for the most common Class 3 English complaint: a child who reads every word correctly and cannot say what the passage was about. That is not a reading problem - it is a comprehension one, and they are separate skills. These questions ask where in the passage the answer was found, because locating evidence is the habit that actually fixes it.

Answer direct questions about a short passage.
Point to the sentence in the passage where an answer came from.
Work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word from the sentence around it.

Exercise 1 of 4 · 10 questions

Read: 'Anu found a small puppy near the gate. It was wet and shivering because it had been raining all morning. She carried it inside and dried it with an old towel. Her mother gave it warm milk. By evening the puppy was running around the house.' Now answer.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

Q: Where did Anu find the puppy? → 'near the gate', and the sentence it came from is the first one. Before writing any answer, find the sentence in the passage that contains it and put a finger on it. Almost every comprehension mistake at this age comes from answering from memory rather than from the text.

1)Where did Anu find the puppy?
2)Why was the puppy wet?
3)What did Anu dry it with?
4)Who gave the puppy milk?
5)How do we know the puppy felt better by evening?
6)Where did Anu carry the puppy to?
7)What was the weather like that morning?
8)Do you think Anu was kind? Give a reason.
9)How do you think the puppy felt when Anu first found it?
10)Who else in the family helped the puppy?

Answers

1) Near the gate.
2) Because it had been raining all morning.
3) An old towel.
4) Her mother.
5) It was running around the house.
6) She carried it into the house.
7) It had been raining all morning.
8) Yes. She picked up a wet puppy, dried it and looked after it instead of leaving it.
9) Cold and frightened, because it was wet and alone by the gate.
10) Her mother, who gave the puppy milk.

Exercise 2 of 4 · 8 questions

For each answer above, write the first three words of the sentence you found it in.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

This exercise is the whole point of the sheet. A child who can locate the sentence has understood; a child who answers correctly but cannot find the sentence has guessed or remembered, and that stops working as passages get longer.

1)Answer 1 came from...
2)Answer 2 came from...
3)Answer 3 came from...
4)Answer 5 came from...
5)Answer 6 came from...
6)Answer 7 came from...
7)Which answer above is NOT written anywhere in the passage?
8)Which word in the passage tells you the towel was not new?

Answers

1) 'Anu found a...'
2) 'It was wet...'
3) 'She carried it...'
4) 'By evening the...'
5) 'She carried it...'
6) 'It was wet...'
7) The one about whether Anu was kind - the passage never uses the word kind, so that answer is worked out.
8) The word 'old', in 'an old towel'.

Exercise 3 of 4 · 10 questions

Read: 'The banyan tree in our village is enormous. Its branches spread so wide that thirty people can sit under it. Birds nest in it all year. In summer the villagers gather beneath it because it is the coolest place around.' Now answer.

Write the answer · Practice

1)How many people can sit under the tree?
2)What lives in the tree all year?
3)Why do villagers gather under it in summer?
4)What does 'enormous' mean here?
5)What kind of tree is it?
6)Where is the tree?
7)In which season do the villagers gather under it?
8)Which word in the passage means the opposite of 'hottest'?
9)Why do birds choose this tree?
10)Would ten people fit under the tree? How do you know?

Answers

1) Thirty.
2) Birds.
3) Because it is the coolest place around.
4) Very big or huge - we can tell because thirty people fit under its branches.
5) It is a banyan tree.
6) It is in our village.
7) In summer.
8) 'Coolest'.
9) Because its branches spread very wide, so there is room and shelter for nests all year.
10) Yes. Thirty people can sit under it, so ten would fit easily.

Exercise 4 of 4 · 10 questions

Work out what each word means from the sentence. Write your guess.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

'The path was so narrow that only one person could walk along it' → narrow means thin or not wide. The clue is in the rest of the sentence: only one person fits. Working a word out from its sentence is a far more useful skill than looking every unknown word up.

1)The path was so narrow that only one person could walk along it.
2)He was exhausted after running the whole way home.
3)The soup was piping hot, so she blew on it first.
4)The room was silent - nobody spoke, and even the fan was switched off.
5)The box was so heavy that two men could hardly lift it.
6)She was delighted with her new bicycle and rode it all day.
7)The road was slippery after the rain, so he walked very slowly.
8)The old man was frail and needed a stick to walk.
9)The crowd was enormous - the whole ground was full.
10)He glanced at the clock and then went back to his book.

Answers

1) narrow = thin or not wide
2) exhausted = very tired
3) piping hot = very hot
4) silent = completely quiet
5) heavy = very hard to lift
6) delighted = very pleased or happy
7) slippery = easy to slide on
8) frail = weak, especially from being old
9) enormous = very big
10) glanced = looked quickly

While your child works

Insist on finding the sentence before writing the answer. A finger on the line is the single habit that fixes comprehension at this age, and it works immediately.
If your child reads the passage aloud fluently and still cannot answer, the problem is comprehension rather than reading - which needs discussion of what happened, not more decoding practice.
For word meanings, ask what the rest of the sentence tells us rather than reaching for a dictionary. Working it out is the transferable skill.

Open the Reading comprehension worksheet on its own page

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Class 3 English Tenses and Writing Worksheet

Class 3 English · Tenses, plurals and sentence writing · 62 questions with answers

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Tense, plurals and articles - the three things that make writing look correct or careless, and all three are pattern work rather than memory work. The irregular cases are the ones worth knowing by heart, and they are called out separately here rather than mixed in.

Change a verb from present to past tense, including common irregulars.
Form plurals, including the -es and irregular cases.
Use a, an and the correctly in a sentence.

Exercise 1 of 5 · 16 questions

Write the past tense.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

walk → walked. Most verbs just add -ed. But go → went, eat → ate, run → ran, write → wrote and come → came follow no rule at all - those are the irregulars, and they simply have to be learned. Notice the first three on this list are regular and the last five are not.

1)walk
2)play
3)jump
4)go
5)eat
6)run
7)write
8)come
9)talk
10)carry
11)stop
12)see
13)take
14)buy
15)drink
16)sing

Answers

1) walked
2) played
3) jumped
4) went
5) ate
6) ran
7) wrote
8) came
9) talked
10) carried
11) stopped
12) saw
13) took
14) bought
15) drank
16) sang

Exercise 2 of 5 · 12 questions

Rewrite each sentence in the past tense.

Write the answer · Guided

1)I walk to school.
2)She eats an apple.
3)They play in the garden.
4)He goes to the market.
5)We drink milk every morning.
6)The bell rings at nine.
7)She sings in the school choir.
8)I write a letter to my grandmother.
9)They take the bus to school.
10)He buys vegetables on Sunday.
11)The children run in the field.
12)Amma cooks rice for us.

Answers

1) I walked to school.
2) She ate an apple.
3) They played in the garden.
4) He went to the market.
5) We drank milk every morning.
6) The bell rang at nine.
7) She sang in the school choir.
8) I wrote a letter to my grandmother.
9) They took the bus to school.
10) He bought vegetables on Sunday.
11) The children ran in the field.
12) Amma cooked rice for us.

Exercise 3 of 5 · 16 questions

Write the plural.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

book → books, but box → boxes. Words ending in x, s, ch or sh add -es because 'boxs' is unsayable. Words ending in a consonant plus y change to -ies (baby → babies). And child → children, man → men, leaf → leaves break the rules entirely.

1)book
2)box
3)baby
4)child
5)leaf
6)bus
7)man
8)city
9)brush
10)story
11)knife
12)foot
13)watch
14)tooth
15)mouse
16)sheep

Answers

1) books
2) boxes
3) babies
4) children
5) leaves
6) buses
7) men
8) cities
9) brushes
10) stories
11) knives
12) feet
13) watches
14) teeth
15) mice
16) sheep (no change)

Exercise 4 of 5 · 12 questions

Fill in a, an or the.

Fill in the blank · Practice

Here’s one done for you

'I saw ___ elephant' → an, because elephant begins with a vowel sound. Use 'the' when there is only one of something (the sun, the moon) or when we both know which one is meant.

1)I saw ___ elephant at the zoo.
2)She has ___ new bicycle.
3)___ sun rises in the east.
4)He ate ___ orange.
5)There is ___ book on the table.
6)___ moon is bright tonight.
7)We waited for ___ hour.
8)She is ___ honest girl.
9)I need ___ umbrella.
10)He is ___ university student.
11)___ Ganga flows through Varanasi.
12)Would you like ___ egg?

Answers

1) an
2) a
3) The
4) an
5) a
6) The
7) an
8) an
9) an
10) a
11) The
12) an

Exercise 5 of 5 · 6 questions

Write one sentence using each word.

Write the answer · Challenge

1)yesterday
2)because
3)beautiful
4)carefully
5)suddenly
6)although

Answers

1) Answers will differ. A correct answer is any complete sentence using the word properly - e.g. 'Yesterday I went to my grandmother's house.'
2) e.g. 'I was late because the bus did not come.'
3) e.g. 'The garden looked beautiful in the morning.'
4) e.g. 'She carried the glass carefully.'
5) e.g. 'Suddenly the lights went out.'
6) e.g. 'Although it was raining, we walked to school.'

While your child works

Separate the regular from the irregular explicitly. Adding -ed and -s covers most cases; went, ate, children and men follow no rule and are pure memory. Mixing the two teaches a child to distrust the rule.
For articles, 'an' goes before a vowel SOUND rather than a vowel letter. It is worth saying aloud - 'an hour' is correct even though hour starts with h.
The final writing exercise has no fixed answers. Mark for whether the sentence is complete and uses the word properly, not against the examples.

Open the Tenses, plurals and sentence writing worksheet on its own page

What changes in English at Class 3?

Up to Class 2, reading is the thing being taught. From Class 3 it is the thing everything else is taught through - and that shift catches out a particular kind of child who was doing fine until now.

The pattern looks like this. A child decodes accurately, reads aloud fluently, sounds confident - and cannot say what the passage was about. Parents reasonably conclude the reading is fine and the child is not paying attention. Usually neither is true. Decoding and comprehension are separate skills, and only decoding has been taught deliberately up to this point. Comprehension has been assumed.

There is a mechanical reason for it too. If decoding still takes effort, almost all of a child's working memory goes into the words and none is left for the meaning. That is why a child can read a paragraph correctly and retain nothing from it - the capacity simply was not available.

So the comprehension sheet here does something specific: it asks a child to find the sentence each answer came from, not just to give the answer. Locating evidence is the habit that fixes this, and it works immediately. Our post on a child weak in reading English covers how to tell a decoding gap from a comprehension one in about two minutes at home.

Which NCERT book does Class 3 English use?

Santoor, published under NCF-SE 2023. It replaced Marigold, so worksheet sets and guides written against Marigold will not match your child's book chapter for chapter.

Class 3's other NCERT books are Maths Mela for maths, Veena for Hindi, and Our Wondrous World for EVS - which makes Class 3 the year EVS finally gets a real NCERT textbook, having had none at all in Classes 1 and 2.

These worksheets are organised by skill rather than by chapter, so they remain usable whichever edition your school issued. Grammar and comprehension do not change with the textbook; only the stories do.

What do these Class 3 English worksheets cover?

Three complete sheets.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives - the first formal grammar, with an emphasis on finding the verb, because subject, object and tense all depend on being able to do that.
Reading comprehension - two passages with questions, plus an exercise that asks which sentence each answer came from, and word-meaning questions worked out from context rather than a dictionary.
Tenses, plurals and articles - present and past including irregulars, plural patterns and the words that break them, and a, an and the.

Every exercise carries a worked example showing the reasoning. On the comprehension sheet in particular, the worked example demonstrates the locating habit rather than simply giving an answer - which is the actual teaching point.

Why does my child apply grammar rules to words that break them?

Because we teach the rule and then quietly bury the exceptions inside the same exercise, and a child cannot tell which is which.

Most verbs form the past by adding -ed. Then go becomes went, eat becomes ate, run becomes ran. Most plurals add -s. Then box becomes boxes, baby becomes babies, child becomes children, leaf becomes leaves. A child who has been taught "add -ed" and then marked wrong for "goed" learns something unhelpful: that the rule cannot be trusted.

The fix is to separate them explicitly. Say plainly: this rule works for most words, and here are the ones that ignore it - those you simply have to know. That is a completely different instruction from "learn these twenty past-tense forms", and it preserves the child's confidence in the rule that genuinely does work most of the time.

The same applies to articles. 'An' goes before a vowel sound, not a vowel letter - 'an hour' is correct, 'a university' is correct. Saying the phrase aloud settles it faster than any written rule, which is worth telling a child directly.

How should a parent use these worksheets?

Four things that make the difference at this stage:

On comprehension, insist on finding the sentence first. Finger on the line before writing anything. This single habit fixes more comprehension problems than any amount of extra reading.
Do not correct every grammar slip in the writing exercise. Mark whether the sentence is complete and uses the word properly. A child corrected on everything writes shorter and safer sentences.
Read the passages aloud together first if reading is still effortful. Hearing the passage frees up the capacity to think about it - and if your child answers everything correctly when you read it, the problem is decoding rather than comprehension.
Keep to around twenty-five minutes, which is realistic at eight - see how long a child can concentrate by age.

For a child still struggling to decode unfamiliar words, our phonics guide is the honest starting point regardless of age, and the spelling test helps with the irregular plurals that simply have to be memorised.

Questions parents ask

Class 3 English worksheets - your questions

Which NCERT book is Class 3 English?

Santoor, published under NCF-SE 2023, which replaced Marigold. Class 3's companions are Maths Mela, Veena for Hindi and Our Wondrous World for EVS - Class 3 being the first year EVS has an NCERT book at all.

My child reads fluently but cannot answer comprehension questions. Why?

Because decoding and comprehension are separate skills, and if decoding still takes effort there is no working memory left for meaning. Our post on a child weak in reading English explains how to tell which is the real problem.

How do I actually improve comprehension?

Make locating evidence the habit - before answering, find the sentence in the passage and put a finger on it. Children who answer from memory manage simple questions and then fail as passages get longer, so the habit matters more than the answers.

What grammar should a Class 3 child know?

Nouns including common and proper, verbs, adjectives, simple present and past tense, plurals and articles. Finding the verb is the highest-value skill of those, because subject, object and tense all depend on it.

How do I teach irregular verbs and plurals?

Separate them from the regular ones explicitly. Say that the rule works for most words and that these particular ones ignore it. Teaching them mixed together teaches a child that the rule cannot be trusted, which is worse than not teaching the rule.

When is it 'a' and when 'an'?

'An' before a vowel sound rather than a vowel letter - 'an apple', 'an hour', but 'a university' because it sounds like 'yoo'. Saying it aloud is more reliable than checking the first letter.

Do these worksheets include answers?

Yes, with alternatives listed where more than one answer is correct, and with the source sentence given for comprehension answers since locating evidence is the skill being taught.

Are the PDFs free?

Free and printable, with no sign-up, email or account. Every question also appears on this page as readable text.

My child is in Class 3 but still cannot read unfamiliar words. What should we do?

Start with phonics rather than comprehension, regardless of age. A child who cannot decode has nothing to comprehend, and phonics is a finite job - the shorter route to everything else.

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Class 3 English Nouns and Verbs Worksheet

Class 3 English Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Class 3 English Tenses and Writing Worksheet

Class 3 English - the guide

What changes in English at Class 3?

Which NCERT book does Class 3 English use?

What do these Class 3 English worksheets cover?

Why does my child apply grammar rules to words that break them?

How should a parent use these worksheets?

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