Grammar and Punctuation Workbook 3

Grammar and Punctuation Workbook 3 is the third-year practice book for English grammar and punctuation: a workbook that consolidates the basics of years 1–2 and builds the sentence skills a young writer needs next.

Year 3 is where children’s writing takes off — stories lengthen, sentences join up, and the errors that were invisible at six become the ones that matter at eight. Workbook 3 meets that moment: short clear teaching, then page after page of the right practice, so capital letters, full stops and verb forms stop needing reminders.

It is made for third-year primary students (roughly ages 7–9), their English teachers, and parents who want home practice that actually matches school.

Grammar and Punctuation Workbook 3 cover

The third workbook of the series assumes the foundations — sentences, capitals, full stops — and spends its pages making them automatic while adding the next layer. Grammar units cover nouns (common and proper), verbs and their past forms, adjectives that compare, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and the joining words that let a child write ‘and then’ and ‘because’ instead of full-stop chains. Punctuation work consolidates capitals and end marks, adds commas in lists, introduces question forms in earnest, and begins apostrophes where children meet them first — in contractions like don’t and can’t. Every unit follows the series’ proven shape: a short explanation with worked examples, then exercises that climb from spotting and underlining, through correcting ready-made mistakes, to writing sentences of the child’s own — the climb from knowing a rule to owning it. For teachers it slots beside any year-3 scheme as the practice engine: homework-ready, quick to mark, and diagnostic (the errors a child repeats are the next lesson, gift-wrapped). For parents it is the bridge between ‘my child writes stories’ and ‘my child writes them correctly.’

About This Book

This is a third-year English grammar and punctuation workbook: consolidation of sentence basics plus the year-3 layer — verb forms, comparing adjectives, joining words, list commas and first apostrophes — in single-point units with graduated exercises.

What Students Will Practise

Sentences That Join Up

Conjunctions and sentence building — turning chains of short sentences into flowing writing with and, but and because.

Words at Work

Nouns, verbs (including past forms), adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and prepositions — the parts of speech met inside real writing.

Punctuation Growing Up

Capitals and end marks made automatic, commas in lists, and apostrophes in contractions — the marks year-3 writing actually needs.

Key Features

The consolidation-plus design is the feature — old basics drilled to automatic while new points arrive one at a time. The exercise ladder is the second: spot it, fix it, write it. The diagnostic value is the third: repeated errors point straight at the reteach.

Who This Book Is For

It is for third-year primary students (about 7–9), English teachers wanting sequenced practice, and parents matching home work to school grammar.

How to Use This Book

Work unit by unit alongside school topics; the workbook rewards order. Make the correction exercises non-negotiable — they teach proofreading, the writer’s superpower. Celebrate automaticity: when capitals stop needing reminders, say so — the child has levelled up.

Related Books

The next book in the series is Grammar and Punctuation Workbook 4. School English at grade 7 is Oxford Progressive English Grade 7.

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