This Adverb Fill in the Blanks Worksheet gives 3rd graders a word bank and eight sentences to complete with the best adverb. Answer key included, perfect for no-prep grammar practice at home or school.
This imaginative adverbs worksheet asks 3rd grade students to sort six adverbs by How, When, and Where, then find the adverb in four sentences. An answer key is included for quick checking.
This Describe it Using Adverbs Worksheet gives 3rd graders nine sentences that practice adverbs telling how, when, and where. An answer key is included, so grammar practice takes minutes to assign and score.
This Adverb Cooking Dinner Story Worksheet has 3rd graders hunt for six adverbs inside a warm story about making dinner, then name the verb each one describes. Answer key included for fast, confident grammar practice.
This Circle & Underline Adverb Worksheet has 3rd graders mark the verb and adverb in six sentences, sort adverbs by how, where, and when, then write one of their own. A complete answer key makes it no-prep.
This diving deep sorting words activity for 3rd to 5th grade has students sort 36 transition word cards by the job each word does. Answer key included.
This Rewriting with Adverbs Worksheet gives 3rd grade writers four sentences to upgrade with just the right adverb, plus three more to label how, when, or where. Answer key included for fast, no-prep grammar practice.
This Explain the Function of Adverbs Worksheet has 3rd graders find each adverb and tell whether it shows how, when, or where. Answer key included, so grammar practice is quick, clear, and no prep.
Using this Play Scrabble Adverbs Worksheet, students will be able to write adverbs while playing Scrabble to build their describing skills.
How, when, and where words
Third graders learn that adverbs are the words that tell us more about a verb: how, when or where something happens. In The puppy ran quickly outside yesterday, there are three adverbs doing three different jobs! Kids notice that many adverbs end in -ly, but not all (soon, here, often). They also learn comparative adverbs like faster and more carefully. The click comes when kids rewrite a flat sentence and hear how much better it sounds.
Adverbs are easiest to learn when kids can see and hear the difference they make. Here is how we teach them.
Write a verb on the board, like walk, and hand a student an adverb card: slowly, proudly, sneakily. The class guesses the adverb from the acting. Then everyone writes the sentence and describes what they saw.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withDescribe it Using Adverbs WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Model one simple routine out loud: find the verb, then ask "How? When? Where?" Whatever answers the question is the adverb. Think aloud with three sentences, then let partners try the next three.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withExplain the Function of Adverbs WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Start the lesson with five sentences missing one adverb each. Kids pick from a word bank, and you get a quick check on who knows the job of an adverb before you teach anything new.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withAdverb Fill in the Blanks WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Silly sentences, word tiles and sorting races. Third graders love making sentences sound ridiculous.
WorksheetsSpell adverbs with letter tiles and add up the points. Longer -ly words score big!
Open Play Scrabble Adverbs Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids add adverbs to a dinner-cooking story and read it out loud. "She stirred the soup dramatically" always gets a laugh.
Open Adverb Cooking Dinner Story Worksheet →
ActivitiesSort words into how, when and where piles. Kids race their partner and check each other's choices.
Open Diving Deep Sorting Words Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Adverb Fill in the Blanks Worksheet, Imaginative Adverbs Worksheet and Describe it Using Adverbs Worksheet.
An adverb is a word that tells more about a verb. It answers how, when or where something happens, like quickly, yesterday or outside.
No. Many do, like softly and happily, but words like soon, often, here and there are adverbs too. Asking "how, when or where?" is a better test than looking for -ly.
An adjective describes a noun (a quick rabbit). An adverb describes a verb (the rabbit ran quickly). Have kids find the word being described first, then decide.
Play "Simon says" with adverbs: "Simon says clap loudly, now clap softly." Kids hear and feel the difference, and it takes two minutes.
Loved by 2 million teachers & families
Printables, songs and games for every subject, Preschool through 6th. Ready to teach today, and kids beg for more.
